The Study Program of Postgraduate Studies in Museology was developed by the eminent museologist Prof. Andrzej Rottermund and is constantly updated according to the needs/agendas of contemporary museology. Both the program goals and their implementation are highly rated by the museum community.
The framework study program includes the following subjects and issues:
- History of collecting and museology
- Legal issues in museology (including: legal basis for the functioning of museums; legal principles of museum turnover and commercialization of museums; photographing in museums; copyright law in the museum; lending museum items; employee duties of museum workers, professional ethics standards; restitution of works of art)
- Management of a cultural institution (including: project management and human capital; social competencies in teamwork, communication techniques, dysfunctions of teamwork)
- Promotion, marketing, communication and public programs and fundraising (including: building a museum brand, organizing promotion campaigns and museum events; concept and tools of marketing in modern museums; development of social competencies and servicing museum audiences; sources of funding for museum projects; third-party funding application processes)
- Audience development (including: audience engagement; optimizing visitors’ experience; audience-based research; addressing various needs of visitors; making museums accessible to people with disabilities)
- Education in the museum (including: the museum as an educational partner for schools; scenarios of educational programs; natural, culinary, historical, online education; theatrical activities in museum practice; language of visual communication in museum education)
- Conservation, preservation, research of works of art
- Collecting museum items, inventory, digitization, organization of archives
- Organization of exhibitions and permanent galleries (including: curatorial workshops, exhibition scenarios, exhibition issues)
- Developing and sharing knowledge; scientific and popular science museum publications
- New museology (including: turn to things and digital turn; spatial turn; how to engage senses in museums; sensory turn – museum as an experience; museums facing the challenges of modernity, critical museum, postcolonial studies and decolonization, ecocriticism and Anthropocene).
The lecturers of the study are outstanding specialists from many fields: art history, museology, conservation, technological research of works of art, but also law, management, education and popularization of art. Lecturers include: Prof. Andrzej Bursche (UW), Prof. Wojciech Kowalski (MSZ, UŚ), Katarzyna Liwak (Museum of Warsaw), Prof. Tomasz Łojewski (UJ), Prof. Andrzej Pieńkos (UW), Dr. Piotr Rypson, Dr. Monika Stobiecka (Artes Liberales UW), Prof. Iwona Szmelter (ASP in Warsaw), Dr. Katarzyna Zalasińska (UW), Prof. Antoni Ziemba (UW) and others.