- UAB University Master's Degree
- Credits: 60 ECTS
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Beginning of the pre-enrolment period 10/01/2025
See the calendar - Pre-registration period: Open
- Places: 25 places
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Price: €27.67 per credit (EU citizens and non-EU holding an EU residence permit). 2024/25 Academic year.
€66 per credit (non-EU citizens who do not hold an EU residence permit). 2025/26 Academic year. - Language: Catalan (80%)and Spanish (20%).
- Mode: Classroom-based learning
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Teaching centre:
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
The objective of the programme is, on the one hand, provide students with the necessary tools and skills to conduct historical-artistic research and, on the other hand, help them become familiar with the aspects related to professional practices: curator, gallery owner, antique dealer, commissioner, etc.
The master's degree includes the valuable support of the National Art Gallery of Catalonia (MNAC).
The module on Conservation and Management of Artistic Heritage will be taught by personnel from the Gallery at the MNAC premises. The classes will give students first-hand knowledge of the management of large collections from a museum: tasks related to the organisation, analysis and conservation of artworks, the organisation of temporary exhibits, educational programmes, communication campaigns, etc.
The master's degree includes a work placement module in which several museums and other art and artistic heritage entities participate. It also makes available to students its splendid art collection, located at the UAB Humanities Library.
Career options
Career options when you complete the Master's degree are:
- Curator of museum collections or other heritage institutions.
- Public and private firms or institutions (publishing houses, foundations, art galleries, antique stores) related to the cultural and artistic market.
- Assessment and appraisal services.
- Management and dissemination of artistic heritage.
- Teaching at university and non-university levels.
Work placements
This master's degree includes one compulsory subject consisting in an external work placement of 150 hours, to be undertaken in the first and/or second semester (July included). The placement takes place at an institution with a formal agreement in place with the UAB. If students have a particular interest in doing a placement with an institution that does not appear on the list, the UAB will study the proposal and sign a new agreement, if possible. Given their importance, every effort is made to tailor placements to each student's profile and interests. The students' tasks on the placement are usually linked to projects at the host institutions and may vary considerably: from document management, cataloguing, registration of collections, helping to prepare and set up an exhibition, working with the communication services or education services, taking part in a publishing project, or helping in the day-to-day running of a department in a museum, art centre, gallery, etc. Tasks will vary depending on each centre.
*Important: when enrolling in the placement module students must take out a complementary insurance policy. (Price of the complementary insurance: €7.55, approximately)
The UAB Department of Art and Musicology has agreements in place with the following institutions.
Barcelona:
- National Art Gallery of Catalonia
- Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, MACBA
- Archaeological Museum of Catalonia, MAC
- Museum of the History of Barcelona, MUHBA
- Barcelona Design Museum
- Museum of Catalan Modernism, MMCAT
- Arts Santa Mònica
- Catalan Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Saint George
- Reial Monestir de Santa Maria de Pedralbes
- Agència Catalana de Patrimoni Cultural
- Photographic Archive of Barcelona
- Associació Catalana de Crítics d’Art, ACCA
- A-FAD, Associació d’Artistes i Artesans del Foment de les Arts i del Disseny
- Casa Àsia
- El Born Centre de Cultura
- Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals, CCMA: TV3, Catalunya Ràdio,
- Escola Massana. Centre d’Art i Disseny
- Filmoteca de Catalunya
- Fundació Joan Miró
- Fundació Rocamora
- Fundació Vila Casas
- Fundación Docomomo Ibérico Documentación y conservación de la arquitectura y el urbanismo del movimiento moderno
- Galeria Marlborough, Barcelona
- Hangar.org, Centre for Art Research and Production
- Barcelona Culture Institute (ICUB) (Placements take place at a centre belonging to the Institute)
Barcelona province
- Barcelona Provincial Council (Placements take place at a centre belonging to the Local Museums Network of the Barcelona Provincial Council)
- Museu d’Art de Cerdanyola
- Museu Tomàs Balvey, Cardedeu
- Museu de Granollers
- Museu Comarcal de Manresa
- Consorci Museu d'Art Contemporani de Mataró, Col·lecció Bassat
- Museu de Montserrat
- Museu de Sant Cugat
- Consorci de Patrimoni de Sitges
- Museu de Terrassa
- Centre de Documentació i Museu Tèxtil, Terrassa
- Centre Cultural Terrassa /
- Museu Episcopal de Vic
- Organisme Autònom de Patrimoni Víctor Balaguer, Vilanova i la Geltrú
- Museu Monjo, Vilassar de Mar
Girona:
- Institut Català de Recerca en Patrimoni Cultural, ICRPC
- Fundació Museu del Cinema-Col·lecció Tomàs Mallol
- Museu de les Terres de l’Ebre
Andorra:
- Departament de Patrimoni Cultural del Govern d’Andorra
The UAB has agreements in place with certain Barcelona art galleries that do not appear on the website. The UAB has other agreements that do not yet appear on the website.
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