MA Cultural Heritage & Digital Museum Studies

Overview

Museums and heritage sites are embracing digital technologies to document, protect, and democratize cultural assets. This MA explores photogrammetry, virtual reality curation, provenance research, restitution ethics, and sustainable tourism management. MA Cultural Heritage & Digital Museum Studies is taught as one award, not a list of unrelated modules. The published length is 18 months, and the credit total is 36. Students move from Critical Heritage Studies & Museology through Critical Heritage Studies & Museology; Preventive Conservation & Material Culture; Heritage Law, UNESCO Treaties & Repatriation Ethics; 3D Scanning, Photogrammetry & Digital Archiving; Virtual Exhibitions, VR/AR & Digital Storytelling; Museum Enterprise, Audience Engagement & Tourism, and finish on MA Cultural Heritage Dissertation. Each course has a question, a method, and a submission. In this field, students apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result. Reading is a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. The artefact a marker expects is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. The award is built so that a graduate can do the following in practice: Digitize historic artifacts and archaeological sites using 3D scanning and photogrammetry Curate physical and virtual exhibitions with interactive storytelling techniques Navigate international restitution laws and UNESCO World Heritage conservation frameworks Teaching assumes the student can read a source, attempt a problem before the seminar, and revise after feedback. Attendance at live seminars is part of the design. The capstone or final course must use the methods of the earlier courses; a project that ignores them does not pass. The pages for each course name the topics that are examined. Those topics are the syllabus. A brochure line is not a substitute for them.

Programme Structure & Delivery

Learning Outcomes

• ✦Digitize historic artifacts and archaeological sites using 3D scanning and photogrammetry
• ✦Curate physical and virtual exhibitions with interactive storytelling techniques
• ✦Navigate international restitution laws and UNESCO World Heritage conservation frameworks
• ✦Manage heritage tourism and museum revenue operations sustainably

Career Pathways

• ✦Museum Curator
• ✦Digital Heritage Archivist
• ✦Cultural Heritage Director
• ✦Exhibition Designer
• ✦UNESCO World Heritage Consultant

Curriculum