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