Dear Eric, Don't get me wrong here: what I meant was that musueums today primarily look for professionals who are qualified in a specific academic field AND understand the museum as a medium for that field. Neither is absolutely necessary but I believe both are highly desirable. Hervé Eric Siegel a écrit: > Herve wrote: > > would go even further: a > museum professional without some sort of solid academic background (at > least > undergraduate) in another discipline (be it history, art history or biology > > or cultural anthropology) > > is rather useless in a museum on a day-to-day basis. You've got to be > competent in a given field before you can work in an institution that is > interested in that field. > > ========== > > Eric Responds: > > Yes, Herve, without my undergraduate degree in music I would have been > "rather useless" in my fifteen or twenty years in art museums, public > gardens, and science museums. > > Seriously, tho, I do think its a bit much to specialize in Museum Studies > as an undergraduate. It seems to represent the "trade-school-ization" of > undergraduate education. A trend about which I have mixed feelings. > > Eric Siegel