A new international master's in museums, heritage and education welcomes scholarship applications

Education in Museums and Heritage (EDUMaH) is a new multidisciplinary Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters programme aimed at training museum and heritage professionals. The two-year programme is run by an international consortium composed of the University of Glasgow, University of Tartu, Radboud University Nijmegen and the University of Malta with the help of partners from around the world.

All EDUMaH students start out in Glasgow, focusing on museum education, and spend the second semester either in Tartu or in Cork. Tartu participates in the consortium through its international master’s in Folkloristics and Applied Heritage Studies, while a group of three Irish universities, led by the University College Cork, offers a specialisation in digital cultures and humanities. The third semester is studied either in Malta (museum and heritage education) or in Nijmegen (art and visual culture). Optional summer schools are offered by the European Museum Academy and the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, and several consortium partners collaborate with local museums and heritage institutions on placements.

Co-funding by the European Union through the Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters programme provides EDUMaH with the capacity to award up to 90 scholarships between 2023–2028. Scholarships can be offered to students from any region of the world and the scholarship awardees are exempt from any tuition fees. Scholarship applications for 2024 are now open and close on 26th January 2024.

Information about the programme structure, entry requirements and scholarships can be found on the EDUMaH website.

General questions and queries could be addressed to EDUMaH coordinators at the University of Glasgow (edumah@glasgow.ac.uk), questions regarding the Tartu track to Kirsti Jõesalu and Elo-Hanna Seljamaa at folkandheritage@ut.ee