36 Heritage Studies Master's Degree Programs

Develop critical skills that allow you to engage meaningfully with society and drive positive change within the museums and heritage sector. You will explore the social, cultural, and political roles of museums and heritage institutions in this flexible online MLitt.

The Master's Degree Course faces the issue of the tourism-territorial system development by focusing on cultural heritage and cultural and creative enterprises as agents of sustainable, integrated and lasting development.

The creation of an advanced cycle of studies, the Master in History and Cultural Heritages, consolidates an area in which the University of Algarve has been a pioneer among Portuguese universities since it created the degree in Cultural Heritage in 1999. It seeks to combine the methodologies of History, Art History, and literary studies, integrating them into a reading that addresses the multifaceted processes of production and cultural transmission.

The MLitt in Museum and Heritage Studies prepares students for employment in museums with broad training in all types of museums, galleries, and other heritage facilities. The MLitt in Museum and Heritage Studies is a taught postgraduate programme run by the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Studies, in association with the School of Art History and the Museums of the University of St Andrews.

In recent years, public cultural policies and the social reassessment of heritage have led to the creation or expansion of numerous heritage institutions and cultural facilities that need professionals skilled in the conservation, dissemination and management of cultural heritage. This master's degree offers professional training for work in museums, heritage institutions, public bodies, and businesses in the culture industry, and also prepares for professional practice in emerging areas and profiles of heritage management.

It addresses dance, movement and related practices as Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) from the perspectives of Ethnochoreology, the Anthropology of Dance, Sport and Movement, Heritage Studies, and Technology for Dance and Sport. It focuses on fieldwork and engages with movement analysis, motion capture, ethnographic and documentation techniques. 

Honours degree in Heritage and Cultural Tourism or relevant honours degree

This program combines the Urban Design examination of Charlotte’s social, economic, environmental and ethical design challenges with discourse on Critical Heritage approaches and practices of engaging with the past.  Faculty and students participating in the dual degree engage in a curriculum and research that seeks local solutions while engaging in global conversations and that emphasize hands-on engagement with communities. 

Honours degree in Heritage and Cultural Tourism or relevant honours degree

History examines why the spatial environment looks and works in particular ways; heritage explores the value and meaning created around space in the present by diverse communities and understands creative approaches to the uses of the past. Thus, during this programme, you will develop a multi-disciplinary analytical approach through the lenses of history and heritage.

The master's degree Libraries and Heritage Collections is a blended program of 60 credits that provides professional training in the management and treatment of cultural assets in the form of bibliographic materials and documents. The master's degree is offered every two years and includes compulsory work placements, which are designed to assist students in finding employment, as well as a final project in the field of heritage.

The Master's degree in Science for the Conservation-Restoration of Cultural Heritage is aimed at the education and training of Conservation Scientist, a scientist with knowledge on chemistry, physics, biology, geology and informatics applied to cultural heritage and further knowledge in conservation (ethics, history, cultural values, historical technologies, past and present conservation technologies, and practice, specific scientific aspects, etc.).

The Master’s programme Digital Heritage and Landscape Archaeology of the University of Cyprus is a unique postgraduate programme in the area of the E. Mediterranean that offers a concrete interdisciplinary academic course platform dealing with the application of spatial technologies and GeoInformatics in the wider domain of Digital Humanities.

The Master's degree in International Cooperation on Human Rights and Intercultural Heritage offers a solid interdisciplinary and problem-oriented training to graduate students with diverse backgrounds who plan to work in the field of international cooperation and development.

The inter-university master's degree provides training to its students to respond to the growing demand for professionals in study, research and cultural management linked to historic cities, museums, the art market, tourism and, in general, the cultural heritage of a historical-artistic nature.