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What is Mondrian trying to tell us with his painting Victory Boogie Woogie or Vermeer with his Girl with a Pearl Earring? Who actually pays for art and culture? What role models does Hollywood provide us with?

If these are questions that interest you, then you should definitely consider the Master’s in Arts & Culture.

The Master’s combines a solid theoretical foundation with attention for the field of arts. After graduating, you’ll be a valuable asset to the cultural sector, thanks to your theoretical and methodological knowledge, your well-developed communication skills and your knowledge of the latest scientific insights.

Possible specialisations:

• Tourism and Culture: In this English-taught specialisation, you will combine historical, literary, art-historical and other disciplinary approaches to become an academic expert in cultural tourism.
• Creative Industries: In this English-taught specialisation, you will come to understand the field that is buzzing with creativity: where art meets commerce, and where culture generates innovation and social cohesion.
• Education in Museums and Heritage (double degree programme): The Master’s programme Education in Museums and Heritage offers global and innovative approaches to education in the museum and heritage sector, with placements and a minimum of three mobility periods in Europe.

Career prospects:

This Master’s helps you to develop the reflective, critical and curious attitude you need to succeed in this field of the creative industry. You will learn to come to grips with relevant research questions, but also with the methods to weigh those questions, put them in context and provide them with an answer. You will familiarise yourself with policy papers, business plans, scripts for the future, and advanced knowledge of the industries based on the creative product. You will also be able to assess future trends, especially where the industry is concerned. In short, you will have the skills you need to contribute to the development of a young and dynamic creative sector.

The jobs you can find yourself doing after graduating from this programme are extremely varied. The scope of the creative industries is as diverse as it is vast and it’s constantly expanding, creating lots of new potential jobs. We therefore expect there will be more and more demand for people with an expertise in the creative industries.

Possible occupations:

• Trend watcher
• Consultant art education for an educational organisation
• Consultant ‘quality television’ for a national commercial television station
• Cultural policy-maker for the government
• Festival organiser
• Webmaster at a museum
• Programme organiser at a film festival