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The Museum's new Master in Curatorial Studies, the only official postgraduate course in Spain for curators training
The Museum thus becomes the first museum in the country to grant its own official university degrees and offers programs of study university degrees to curators, mediators of the presence of art in society.
The Museum, the only museum in Spain able to offer its own official degrees, has designed the first master's degree at programs of study and internship in curatorial studies, the Master in Curatorial Studiesa university training for an essential profession in contemporary cultural environments.
Already verified by the National Agency for Assessment of Quality and Accreditation (the state foundation of the National Agency for Quality assessment and accreditation), it will be bilingual (English and Spanish) and will begin to be taught in the 2018-2019 academic year, although the deadline for apply for information has already opened.
The University can undertake a theoretical subject of teaching internship thanks to the unique status articulation Museum-University. The students of the Master in Curatorial Studies will be resident at the Museum for seven months and will be able to rotate through the different Departments, acquiring and understanding the competencies of each area.
The Study program and the selection of the teaching faculty facultyespecially, guarantee the international projection of the participants. The academic staff is made up of some professors from the University itself, as well as artists and professionals from the sector, with great influence and prestige both in Spain and internationally. Vicente Todolí, Katya García-Antón, Gerardo Mosquera, Gabriel Pérez Barreiro, Sergio Rubira or Tania Pardo are some examples. To reinforce the international outreach of the postgraduate course, the master's degree includes a curatorial trip and professional internships in other art centers around the world.
"We are proud to propose an innovative program for its high dimension internship, the excellent level of the academic staff and the international scope of project, reinforced by bilingualism, travel and internships. We intend to provide a service to the entire artistic community and, with a multicultural perspective, to bring this subject of training closer to new professionals from Spain and Latin America especially", explains Nieves Acedo, director of the Master in Curatorial Studies of the Museum.