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As to whether a Museum Studies person would have a better
chance at a job then someone without the degree: it depends
on the job, the candidates, the museum.
There are still plenty of people in the museum world who
have come from an entirely different angle, particularly in
administration and development. Almost all curators I know
have subject specific advanced degrees. I don't really know
what museum studies degrees cover, but if you want to be a
collections manager, particularly in archival type
collections, a library degree should work well.
Certainly, experience and good references/personal
contacts are the key. For most non-curatorial museum jobs,
degrees are secondary or tertiary to these criteria. I don't
know where you live, but it helps to be somewhere where ther
are lots of museum-type places -- simply more opportunities.
Eric Siegel
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15 years in museums, and I still usually like it.
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