Education in Museums and Heritage (EDUMaH) is an EMJM which focuses academic study on the unique learning environments provided by museum and heritage sites. The programme will equip future leaders for the vital role that Museum and Heritage (M&H) education has to play in building a healthier, more inclusive and sustainable future. Supported by theory and critical analysis, EDUMaH will encourage the development of innovative approaches to education in the museum and heritage sector, managing change and adapting to emerging social, cultural, political and environmental challenges.
Through education theory and practice, guided by leading academics and skilled professional practitioners, students will explore the many ways that museums and heritage sites can employ collections and spaces to provoke debate, reveal truths and relate to the multicultural, mobile and multifaceted communities and societies we inhabit today. An increase in academic and professional training programmes coupled with the growing body of published works addressing education in M&H topics signifies a growing desire amongst M&H education specialists to deepen and extend their knowledge and understanding of the field, its principles and practices, and the profound questions it must address in the 21st century.
EDUMaH offers students a unique opportunity to do this by exploring key contemporary M&H education themes within a minimum of three countries, over a two year period, and with credit-delivering / degree-awarding partners in Scotland (UK), Ireland or Estonia, Netherlands or Malta). EDUMaH will give 150+ (including 80+ scholarship) Master level students from around the world access to a 2yr EMJM of 120 ECTS, with a minimum of three mobility periods, access to placements and summer schools (in Mexico and throughout Europe), new cultural experiences, exposure to languages and enhanced employability in a complex and growing field burgeoning with new possibilities.
