Overview
Are you ready to investigate museum displays from multiple perspectives? Are you keen to intern at a museum, directly contributing to curating exhibitions yourself? And are you looking to become a curator of the future?
The Dual Master’s in Curating Art and Cultures is a unique, two-year programme offered jointly by the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), the University of Amsterdam (UvA), and leading museums and cultural institutions in the Netherlands.
You will spend half of the programme taking core courses related to curating and collecting, as well as elective courses in your field of interest, such as art history, cultural history or design. The other half of the programme provides you with the unique opportunity to do an internship at one of our partner institutions, spending an entire year under the supervision of a curator and contributing first-hand to several projects in the museum.
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Alumni from the programme have gone on to find various curatorial positions at museums in the Netherlands and abroad, including:
- Van Gogh Museum
- Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
- Foam Photography Museum Amsterdam
- Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
- Museum for World Cultures (Tropenmuseum)
- Teylers Museum in Haarlem
- RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History in The Hague
- Museum Arnhem
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Collecting, Curating and Display
- Internship
- Curatorial Practices in the Contemporary World
- Master Thesis
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 24 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
- Apply before , National
- Apply before , International
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Only students holding a Dutch/EU nationality can apply to this programme.
Language
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Credits
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Disciplines
Visual Arts Liberal Arts Museum Studies View 38 other Masters in Liberal Arts in NetherlandsAcademic requirements
English requirements
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Student insurance
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- Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
- Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
- Liability
- Home contents and baggage
- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Other requirements
General requirements
The Master's programme in Curating Art and Cultures is open for application to students with a Bachelor's degree from an accredited university in:
- Art History,
- Cultural Studies,
- History, and
- VU Bachelor Media, Kunst, Design en Architectuur (MKDA)
If you wish to apply for a Dual Master's in Curating Art and Cultures, you are expected to have an overall grade point average (GPA) of at least:
- B/3.3 (American system)
- 2.1 (an upper second class degree in the British system)
- C (ECTS-system)
Tuition Fee
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International
16830 EUR/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 16830 EUR per year during 24 months. -
EU/EEA
2314 EUR/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 2314 EUR per year during 24 months.
Living costs for Amsterdam
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Funding
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Scholarships Information
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