RE: PhD. Programs in Museum Studies.
 
          I can't tell from your posting what aspect of museum work
          you want to go into. Based upon your signature, it seems as
          though you're getting an MPA, so you would be heading
          towards administration. Is that right?
 
          In my 15 years or so of experience in the museum field, I've
          never met anyone with a doctorate in museum studies who was
          actually working in a museum. Of course, there are all sorts
          of curators with doctorates, administrators with un-related
          doctorates, and directors with "content" type doctorates (ie
          history, botany, art history). The only place that I may
          have met someone with a doctorate in museum studies was in a
          university, and even then, I can't recall specifically (I
          did study with a man with a Doctorate in Theater
          Administration, which I found pretty exotic.)
 
          So...for what its worth, my personal sense is that a
          doctorate in Museum Studies would not be much help in the
          museum world, but may be useful in the academic world.
 
          Eric Siegel
          The New York Botanical Garden