Managing Art and Cultural Heritage in Global Markets ( IntM)

Course description

The International Masters in Managing Art & Cultural Heritage in Global Markets (MAGMa), aims to explore contemporary issues affecting the market for art and cultural heritage (A & CH) utilising historical, theoretical and experiential models, with the primary aim of better equipping the A & CH professional with the skills necessary to work within a highly complex and growing field worldwide. The collaboration of European and international university and cultural institutions will deliver a programme that combines theory with practice, enabling an integrated approach to understanding the social, economic, legal and cultural issues affecting the A & CH sectors with first-hand experience of contexts as diverse as museums, heritage sites, auction houses, dealers and foundations.

WHY THIS PROGRAMME

This Programme brings together a consortium of five European universities: University of Glasgow, Institut d’Etudes Supérieures des Arts in Paris, University of Lisbon and University Institute of Lisbon, and Erasmus University Rotterdam, to deliver a unique multidisciplinary and cohesive approach to the art & cultural heritage field.

Each member of the Consortium brings world-leading expertise in key aspects of collections history, the art market, art and heritage law and cultural heritage management and economics.

Successful students will be awarded a multiple degree by the five contributing universities at the end of the two-year programme.
The programme utilises historical, theoretical and practice-based models, with the primary aim of better equipping the Art & Cultural Heritage professional with the skills necessary to work within a highly complex, volatile and growing field worldwide.

Mobility within Europe and beyond is built into the curriculum with opportunities to experience work placements in a range of private and public art and cultural institutions.

Guest lectures are provided by leading academics and professionals from the art market, museums and other heritage organisations.
Summer School partners include the Berlin State Museums, the Hermitage in St Petersburg, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC and the Hunterian, University of Glasgow.

Access to language learning opportunities are also available throughout the two year programme.

PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
The programme is structured around a series of mobility periods across two years where you study at a combination of partner universities, taking a mix of core and optional courses.

The programme also includes an optional two-week summer school in years 1 and 2. Successful students will be awarded a multiple degree (four parchments) by all the consortium partners.

Core courses
Semester 1 (Sept-Dec): Lisbon University/ISCTE: Arts Management and Markets

Art markets: structure and dynamics
Cultural Entrepreneurship
Foundations of Accounting & Finance
Online: University of Glasgow: Art & Cultural Heritage in a Globalised World.

Semester 2 (Feb-June): IESA, Paris: Two Study Tracks: either Collecting in Art & Cultural Heritage or Managing the Cultural Heritage of the Future, including:

Digital Marketing and Communication and Sociology and Cultural Mediation, with either
Emerging Markets and Globalisation and Structures & Business of Contemporary Art Markets, or
European Policy and Cultural Heritage Management and Financing Culture: Creating sustainable institutions for the future.
Online: University of Glasgow: Interdisciplinary Methodologies in Art & Cultural Heritage.

Summer: Summer School (optional)

Semester 3 (Sept-Jan):Erasmus University Rotterdam: Two Study Tracks: either Economics of Heritage, or Tourism & Heritage, including:

Cultural Economics Perspective and Research Workshop, Social Sciences, with either:
Economics of Cultural Heritage, or
Economics of Cultural Tourism
Online: University of Glasgow: Provenance and Restitution.

Semester 4 (Feb-Jul) (Glasgow, Paris, Lisbon or Rotterdam): Independent study, dissertation

Subjects

• Creative arts
• Museum studies
• Arts
• Heritage studies
• International history
• Cultural studies