Course description
Museums establish powerful narratives of progress and primitivism, knowledge and ignorance, inclusion and exclusion.
Museum Management and Curatorship training course gives you the chance to acquire key foundational skills in curating and a solid grasp of the related issues. You will benefit from an intensive week studying current issues and practices in curating.
The course shares best practice and expertise in various aspects of museum studies, cultural management, exhibition practice and care of collections.
Upcoming start dates
Upcoming start dates
Suitability - Who should attend?
Museum Management and Curatorship training course is ideal for :
- Museum professionals, scholars, students, educators and consultants examine current issues in-depth and provide up-to-Date research, analysis and commentary on developments in museum practice.
- Both academics and museum practitioners.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
At the end of theMuseum Management and Curatorship training course you will be able to :
- Understand the role and responsibilities of the curator within the modern museum and gallery context
- Select objects and create coherent narratives with them
- Acquire real-world experience of working in museums and galleries. Advance your knowledge of contemporary developments in this vibrant and sophisticated area of culture, arts and heritage.
- Develop transferable skills that are essential across this sector, working with museum and gallery professionals to nationally and internationally recognised museum standards.
- Develop your own interests and gain valuable research and practice-based skills.
- Engage constructively in current debates concerning curatorship and its changing nature
- Identify some of the challenges faced by the museum and gallery curator today.
Training Course Content
Day 1
- What is a Curator Today? Collecting and Interpreting Objects
- Creating Narratives
- Exhibition Making 1: Creating, Researching and Pitching a Proposal; Project Timelines
- Exhibition Making 2: Spaces and Design
- Audience Development and Communication
Day 2
Management and Strategy for the Museum
- Effective management and the ability to think strategically are crucial to an organisation's ability to achieve its objectives effectively.
- This module integrates the theories and methodologies of other modules within the wider context of organisational management.
Day 3
Communication and Learning in the Museum
- The module provides an overview of current thinking in museums on their role as educators and facilitators of learning and communication.
- It focuses on exhibitions as tools for social, cultural, educational and political influence, and develops an understanding of exhibitions and other elements within museums as forces for learning and communication and evolving learning policies and priorities.
Day 4
Collections Care and Management
- The module has an overview of current practices in museums on collections care and management.
- It focuses on planning for collection management, museum registration and accreditation and questions surrounding the meaning of objects and acquisition and disposal.
- The practical elements of collections care and management are further investigated with regards to collections information, access, security and insurance, preventative conservation, and the monitoring and controlling of the museum environment.
Day 5
This independent research module provides you with the opportunity to investigate an issue in contemporary museum practice or provision. This could be related to your employment if you already work or volunteer in a museum or gallery.
Possible subjects include:
- Exhibiting intangible culture
- The collections management of sacred objects
- The politics of labelling
- The use of community focus groups in exhibition planning
- Museum funding, and its inequities.
- The aftermath of museum closure
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