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Archaeology: MA Heritage and Museum Studies

Master

Please note: All course descriptions for 2025 - 2026 are still provisional and subject to change.

Seen from an archaeological perspective and in so far as they are relevant to heritage management and modern museum practices, the specialisation Heritage and Museum Studies combines academic and practical aspects of cultural and landscape studies, politics, cultural theory and the environmental sciences.

The programme will take you through current approaches and ethical issues and allows you to experience some of them in daily practice.

Heritage and Museum Studies

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2

General part
Archaeological Theory 5

Career profile
Heritage Research: Methods and Approaches 5
Museums, Collections and Society 5
Current Issues in Heritage studies and Applied Archaeology 5
MA/MSc Thesis 20

Choose any 2 focus area courses (see 'Focus area courses' tab above) (2 x 5 ec)

Choose 2 elective courses (see 'Electives' tab above) (2 x 5 ec)

Focus area courses

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2

General
Hunter-gatherer Archaeology 5
The Archaeology of Hominin Diversity 5

Europe
Archeologie en Erfgoed van Nederland 5
Area Specialisation Course: Europe: Europe first millenium 5
Key Developments in European Prehistory 5

The Near East
Area Specialisation Course: West Asia and Eastern Mediterranean 10
Neolithisation in West Asia 5
The Archaeology of the Assyrian Empire 5

The Mediterranean
Archaeology of the Crusades 5
Crafting the Greek World. Theory and practice 5
Ancient Networks 5

The Americas
Area Specialisation Course: Americas 10

Electives

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2
Underwater Archaeology and Maritime Landscapes 5
Introduction to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Archaeology 5
Master Internship: Heritage and Museum 5

or: free choice from the rest of the focus area courses

or: free choice from the courses of the other Archaeology profiles.

or: course outside of the faculty or the university. These need to be MA courses of at least level 400 and need to be officially approved by the Board of Examiners.