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Study Details: MA 15 months full-time
MA Curating and Collections offers you the chance to work alongside established curators, learning how to handle art and design objects. You’ll learn directly from professionals in the curatorial team at Chelsea Space, who will guide your curating of artefacts. We are committed to developing ethical curatorial practices. To achieve this, we are working to embed UAL’s Principles for Climate, Social and Racial Justice into the course.
Your exhibition skills will be underpinned by curatorial knowledge, enhanced by study visits to major institutions. By combining practical engagement with historical understanding, this course builds the skills you need for a successful career in curating and collections.
Individual research will be guided to help you make the most of the Special Collections, library and learning resources across UAL.
The UAL collections include:
What to expect
The standard minimum entry requirements for this course are:
Entry to this course will also be determined by the quality of your application, looking primarily at your personal statement and study plan.
APEL - Accreditation of Prior (Experiential) Learning
Applicants who do not meet these course entry requirements may still be considered in exceptional cases. The course team will consider each application that demonstrates additional strengths and alternative evidence. This might, for example, be demonstrated by:
Each application will be considered on its own merit but we cannot guarantee an offer in each case.
For fees and funding information, please see website
Many MA Curating and Collections graduates go on to work as curators either, independently or within galleries, museums or other art and design organisations.
Some of our course alumni develop public programmes, while others choose further study and research exhibitionary practice and typically focus on collections research, exhibitions history and curatorial practice.
MA Curating and Collections at Chelsea provides students with the critical, historical and contextual studies needed to advance their careers.
Unit 1: Introduction to curatorial practices, concepts and collections
This unit is an introduction to your course, the College and the University.
You’ll broaden your knowledge of key issues in the curatorial field and think about curating as a means of reinterpreting objects and practices. You’ll gain hands-on experience of curating, through practice-based approaches to learning. Your communication skills will be developed through written work, curatorial displays and oral presentations.
Unit 2: Methodology and techniques
This unit will deepen your practice through engagement with collections research alongside curatorial activity.
You’ll establish connections with curatorial networks to help you progress your research interests. By looking at curatorial contexts, you’ll gain a critical perspective on institutional practices. You’ll evaluate curatorial methods used to reinterpret objects and practices. You’ll also plan and implement a collections-based display.
Unit 3: Synthesis: Conference project and self-directed study
In this unit you will reflect upon current curatorial practice and develop your own professional practice through the organisation of a conference.
You’ll be able to articulate your own position in respect of key curatorial debates and analyse curatorial methods used to reinterpret objects and practices. You’ll develop a critical understanding of work that challenges existing practice. As part of the postgraduate show, you’ll plan and implement an exhibition.
Note: 120 Credits must be passed before the final unit is undertaken.
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