After 40 years, cultural heritage and museum studies at Deakin is the largest and the longest running program of its kind in Australia. Internships and international field work, as well as visits to museums, galleries and heritage sites, will give you valuable professional experience and a headstart to an exciting career.
A postgraduate qualification can be undertaken by students who have already completed an undergraduate degree or possess significant, demonstrable work experience. Postgraduate courses include graduate certificates, graduate diplomas, masters and PhDs, as well as specialist programs for industry professionals.
Research degrees are research based master’s or PhD programs that focus on a single area of expertise. They provide students the opportunity to carry out highly specialised research under expert supervision.
Our graduates work in the following roles and fields:
Our graduates go on to do amazing things – curators, collections managers, museum directors, cultural heritage management planning. It's incredibly varied.
Lorinda Cramer
Lecturer and discipline convenor for the cultural heritage and museum studies programs
Deakin’s cultural heritage advisory board is made up of key people in the sector from Melbourne Museum, National Gallery of Victoria, National Trust, Heritage Victoria as well as independent consultants and current and former students.
Deakin and the Brandenburg University of Technology in Germany have partnered to offer an exciting dual degree. Enrol in the Master of Cultural Heritage for an opportunity to study overseas while gaining two qualifications simultaneously.
After 40 years of history, cultural heritage and museum studies at Deakin is the largest and the longest running course of its kind in Australia. Our graduates have gone on to make a difference across the broad cultural heritage sector in museums, galleries, heritage sites, government agencies and community organisations.
Whether you want to work with objects and collections, manage a museum or heritage place, or protect and interpret significant sites, landscapes or intangible cultural heritage, a postgraduate qualification in cultural heritage and museum studies provides a pathway into employment in the diverse and exciting heritage sector.
Karen's research aims to understand the ways in which objects have mediated relations between people of different cultural backgrounds in Australian society through their entanglement in museum collecting and display practices.
There is an increasing concern with the ethics of cultural heritage practice at a time when globally human rights language is growing in its popularity. Laura's thesis research is about the intersections of current international debates about heritage conservation and human rights.
Tanya’s research analysed the ways in which exhibitions of fashion in Australia and New Zealand museums and galleries mediate the concerns of the fashion industry itself, becoming an extension of it.
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