A unique, hands-on museum studies minor.
Hartwick is one of the few colleges in the country that offers a minor in museum studies.
The museum studies minor is for students interested in learning about museums as part of our cultural heritage or developing a museum-related career.
Where degrees in museum studies can take you.
Students usually take museum-studies courses in conjunction with a major associated with museums (anthropology, art, art history, business administration, education, history, or one of the sciences).
Students are strongly encouraged to pursue internships or volunteer work. The minor prepares students for graduate school or entry-level positions.
A closer look.
Coursework is complemented by use of exhibitions and permanent collections in the Yager Museum of Art & Culture and Foreman Gallery.
Beyond the basic.
Like all Hartwick students, museum studies minors learn by doing. They study in small classes with expert faculty. They travel the world. They get ready for meaningful careers and interesting lives. They thrive.
Putting museum studies to work.
Museum studies minors are employed in wide variety of interesting fields, and many go on to study at the most prestigious graduate schools in the nation.
Hartwick alumni work for:
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Corning Museum of Glass
- Nantucket Historical Association
- New York State Museum
- Norman Rockwell Museum
- Phoenix Zoo
- Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
Recent Hartwick graduates have been accepted to:
- State University of New York at Oneonta, Cooperstown Graduate Program
- Sotheby’s Institute of Art
- William & Mary College, Graduate Program in American Studies
Meet the museum studies faculty.
Hartwick’s museum studies courses are taught by skills professionals who have achieved success in the museum profession and share their experiences with students.
Nancy Golden Curator, Visual Resource Center and Foreman Gallery, Department of Art and Art History
B.A., Hartwick College
Areas of expertise:
Material culture in art, architecture and textiles, contemporary visual art exhibition development and design
Douglas Kendall Museum Coordinator, and Coordinator, Museum Studies Minor Program
Ph.D., Boston University
Areas of expertise:
American material culture, museum collections management, museum administration, colonial revival, arts & crafts movement
Quentin Lewis Collections Manager of the Yager Museum of Art & Culture, and Lecturer in Museum Studies
Ph.D. with Distinction in Anthropology, University of Massachusetts
Areas of expertise:
Archaeological collections, historical archaeology, American material culture, public engagement, anthropological theory
