Curating Art and Cultures Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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