History of Art with Gallery & Museum Studies

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AwardDegree of Bachelor of Arts

UCAS Course CodeV3PA

Typical OfferABB

Contextual OfferBBC

Course Length4 years

Course Start DateSeptember 2027

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Course Overview

Why BA History of Art with Gallery and Museum Studies with a Year Abroad at UEA?

This course gives you unparalleled access to a major art gallery, allowing you to study art directly through its collections. You’ll develop the knowledge and skills needed to understand how museums shape culture, audiences and public life.

Why choose UEA

Study inside a world-renowned museum: Learn daily within the Sainsbury Centre, gaining exceptional first-hand access to global art collections

Hands-On professional experience: Explore curating, conservation, education, and display through real objects, exhibitions and expert-led sessions

International research network: Benefit from links with leading global institutes, opening pathways to careers in museums and heritage

What is BA History of Art with Gallery and Museum Studies with a Year Abroad?

This course explores how museums shape our understanding of art and culture. You’ll study objects and artworks from many periods and places.

You’ll learn inside the Sainsbury Centre, gaining direct access to exhibitions and collections. This unique setting supports hands‑on, object-based learning.

You’ll examine how curators, conservators and educators engage diverse audiences. This experience prepares you for careers across museums, galleries and heritage.

This version of the course gives you an opportunity to gain global confidence by spending your third year studying at a partner university overseas.

Art History at UEA

Find out more about studying Art History at UEA, and browse our other courses.Find out more

Year Abroad

You’ll spend a year studying at one of our prestigious partner universities overseas in Europe, the US, Canada, Australia or New Zealand. Studying abroad is a wonderfully enriching life experience. You’ll develop confidence and resilience while learning about another culture.

For further details, visit our Study Abroad section of our website.

Career Pathways

With a BA History of Art with Gallery and Museum Studies with a Year Abroad degree, you could launch a career in:

Public museums and art galleries: Develop and deliver exhibitions, support collections, and help engage diverse audiences through public programmes

Commercial art galleries: Support sales, curate displays, and work directly with artists, clients and contemporary art markets

Publishing: Contribute to art books, catalogues, and digital platforms through research, writing and editorial work

Event management: Plan and coordinate cultural events, exhibitions and programmes across creative and heritage organisations

Teaching and lecturing: Share knowledge of art and visual culture in schools, universities and community learning environments

Career Support

You’ll be supported throughout your degree to develop skills valued in the job market. We’ll help you assess different career paths to understand what suits your specific needs and interests best.

Our career centre at UEA will offer personalised career support, campus careers events, alumni networking opportunities, paid internships and career-planning and CV workshops. You’ll be strongly prepared for cultural and creative employment.

Discover more on our Careers webpages.

After the Course

You’ll graduate with practical experience and strong critical skills valued across the cultural and heritage sectors. Your time in the Sainsbury Centre offers genuine professional insight. Many graduates progress into museum roles or broader creative careers. Others continue to postgraduate study at UEA or beyond.

Study and Modules

Year 1Year 2Year AbroadYear 4

Structure

Your first year will lay the foundations for your study of art, galleries and museums. You’ll be introduced to art history and museum studies as disciplines and learn to engage with objects and artworks first-hand. In the process, you’ll develop visual, critical and communication skills central to your degree. You’ll explore significant themes in the history of art and exhibitions and consider the history, politics and ethics of museum and gallery work.

Compulsory Modules

LEARNING ON SITE: THE SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR VISUAL ARTS

INTRODUCTION TO ART HISTORY

MAKERS AND MAKING

ENVIRONMENT, ART AND CULTURE

PORTRAITURE AND IDENTITY

GALLERIES & MUSEUMS: HISTORIES/POLITICS/ETHICS

Important Information

Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring, review and update of modules. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes and their constituent modules, the University will endeavour to consult with students and others. It is also possible that the University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff. In some cases optional modules can have limited places available and so you may be asked to make additional module choices in the event you do not gain a place on your first choice. Where this is the case, the University will inform students.

You’ll be encouraged to think about varied and fascinating museum object biographies and how art history interacts with anthropology and archaeology. In the spring semester, you’ll consider how your historical studies relate to contemporary debates about the status of art and the role of galleries and museums in the present. Alongside these lectures, you’ll choose from a range of optional modules through which you’ll develop more specialist knowledge of particular problems and periods.

THE LIVES OF ARTWORKS

ARTISTS/MUSEUMS

ART IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

Optional A Modules (Credits: 20)

LOVE, DESIRE AND SEXUALITY IN HISTORY

MATERIAL WORLDS

TUDOR ENGLAND

THE ROMAN EMPIRE: CITIZENS, SLAVES, AND IMPERIAL FAMILIES

HERITAGE AND PUBLIC HISTORY

THE POLITICS OF STORYTELLING

Optional B Modules (Credits: 40)

LIFE AND ART IN THE JEWISH DIASPORA

ANATOMY OF A CITY: PARIS, 1682-1815

THE SILK ROADS: THE ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY AND ART HISTORY OF EURASIAN TRADE NETWORKS IN THE EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIOD

PROPAGANDA

ARTS AND HUMANITIES PLACEMENT MODULE

THE ALCHEMY OF NATURE: ART, RELIGION AND MEDICINE IN THE MIDDLE AGES

VICTORIAN BRITAIN

On this course, you'll spend your third year studying abroad at one of our many partner institutions across the globe. This is a brilliant opportunity to experience living in another country, see how your subject and others are studied there, develop greater confidence and enhanced communication skills and gain experiences that will help your CV stand out to employers.

Check out our Study Abroad pages to learn more.

ARTS AND HUMANITIES YEAR ABROAD MODULE

In your final year of study, you’ll explore various aspects of museum work from curating to conservation, interpretation to participation, along with two optional modules on advanced topics in art history. Our optional modules may address topics such as identity, psychology, memory, materiality, decolonisation, social inequality and injustice, ecology, climate change and sustainability from a broad range of historical and global perspectives.

MUSEUM WORK: THEORY & PRACTICE

DISSERTATION

Optional A Modules (Credits: 30)

THE ENLIGHTENMENT

POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE

THE MEDIEVAL CASTLE: ROMANCE AND REALITY

MODERN ART AND STATES OF MIND

Optional B Modules (Credits: 30)

MONSTERS, MARVELS AND CREATIVE MEDIEVAL HERITAGE (PRE-1789)

DANCING ON THE VOLCANO: ART AND CULTURE IN THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC

THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

DIGITAL STORYTELLING

EMBODIMENT AND REPRESENTATION IN THE ARTS OF AFRICA, OCEANIA & THE AMERICAS

CONTESTING THE PAST: REPRESENTATION AND MEMORY

Teaching and Learning, and Assessment

Teaching and Learning

You’ll learn through lectures, seminars, tutorials and independent study guided by leading specialists. Each week blends contact hours, assessment work and self‑directed research. Teaching encourages active engagement with artworks, objects and key texts. As you progress, you develop skills in analysis, visual literacy and historical interpretation.

In year one, you’ll build core skills through guided preparation, close visual analysis and structured engagement with artworks and texts.

During year two, you’ll explore specialised topics linked to staff research and develop greater independence in your academic work.

You’ll broaden your academic and cultural perspective by spending your third year studying abroad at one of our global partner institutions.

In your final year, you’ll deepen subject expertise while increasing independent study, especially through your dissertation research

Assessment

Your learning is assessed through coursework rather than formal examinations. Assessments include essays, presentations, critiques, posters and catalogue entries. Each task builds key academic and professional skills. Assessment supports your development as an independent critical thinker.

In year one, assessments develop close analysis, critical thinking and clear communication across varied written and visual tasks.

During year two, you’ll shape your own essay topics and develop practical and scholarly skills for museums and galleries.

In your third year, you’ll have the opportunity to study abroad at one of our partner universities worldwide, exploring a new culture, learning how your subject is taught overseas and building skills that boost your confidence and your CV.

In your final year, you’ll complete a dissertation on a chosen topic, working with a supervisor to design an original research project.

Entry Requirements

UKInternational

This course is open to

UK and International fee-paying students. Choose UK or International above to see relevant information. The entry point is in September each year.

We welcome and value a wide range of qualifications, and we recognise that some students might take a mixture of different qualifications. We have listed typical examples that we accept for entry.

You should hold or be working towards the specified English and Mathematics requirements and one of the examples of typical entry qualifications listed below. If your qualifications aren’t listed, or if you are taking a combination of qualifications that isn’t specified, please contact Admissions.

English and Mathematics

All applicants must hold or be working towards GCSEs in English Language and Mathematics at minimum grade 4 or grade C.

In place of Mathematics GCSE we can also consider Functional Skills Level 2 Mathematics.

We accept a wide range of English Language qualifications, please see our English Language equivalencies(opens in a new window) page.

Contextual Offers

UEA are committed to ensuring that Higher Education is accessible to all, regardless of their background or experiences. One of the ways we do this is through our contextual admissions schemes(opens in a new window).

Typical UK Entry Requirements

A levels

Contextual offer: BBC

Level 3 Extended Diploma: DDM

Contextual offer: DMM

Combinations of BTEC and A levels

Access to HE Diploma

Access to Humanities and Social Sciences Pathway. Pass Access to HE Diploma with Distinction in 30 credits at Level 3 and Merit in 15 credits at Level 3.

Contextual offer: Access to Humanities & Social Sciences pathway. Pass the Access to HE Diploma with Merit in 30 credits at Level 3 and pass in 15 credits at Level 3.

T levels

Obtain an overall Merit

Further Examples of Typical Entry Requirements

International Baccalaureate

32 points overall

Irish Leaving Certificate

3 subjects at H2, 3 subjects at H3

Scottish Highers

Scottish Advanced Highers

BCC. A combination of Advanced Highers and Highers may be acceptable

Deferred Entry

We welcome applications from students who have already taken or intend to take a gap year. We believe that a year between school and university can be of substantial benefit. You are advised to indicate your reason for wishing to defer entry on your UCAS application.

Admissions Policy

Our Admissions Policy applies to the admissions of all undergraduate applicants.

Progression

Once enrolled onto a course at UEA, your progression and continuation (which may include eligibility for study abroad, overseas experience, placement or year in industry opportunities) is contingent on meeting the assessment requirements which are relevant to the course on which you are enrolled.

Typical International Entry Requirements

We accept many international qualifications for entry to this course. For specific details about your country, view our information for International Students(opens in a new window).

UEA International Study Centre

If you do not meet the academic and/or English language requirements for direct entry our partner, UEA International Study Centre(opens in a new window) offers progression on to this undergraduate degree upon successful completion of a preparation programme. Depending on your interests, and your qualifications you can take a variety of routes to this degree.

English Foreign Language

Applications from students whose first language is not English are welcome. We require evidence of proficiency in English (including writing, speaking, listening and reading):

IELTS: 6.0 overall (minimum 5.5 in all components)

We also accept a number of other English language tests. Review our English Language Equivalencies(opens in a new window) for a list of example qualifications that we may accept to meet this requirement.

Test dates should be within two years of the course start date.

If you do not yet meet the English language requirements for this course, UEA International Study Centre offer a variety of English language programmes which are designed to help you develop the English skills necessary for successful undergraduate study:

English language at UEA International Study Centre(opens in a new window)

Book a visit to discover more

Fees and Funding

Tuition fees for the Academic Year 2027/28 are:

UK Students: £10,050

International Students: £24,250

We estimate living expenses at £1,171 per month.

Further Information on tuition fees can be found here(opens in a new window).

Scholarships and Bursaries

We are committed to ensuring that costs do not act as a barrier to those aspiring to come to a world leading university and have developed a funding package to reward those with excellent qualifications and assist those from lower income backgrounds. View our range of Scholarships(opens in a new window) for eligibility, details of how to apply and closing dates.

Course Related Costs

You may need to pay some additional costs for optional field trips, which are subsidised by the department.

Please see Additional Course Fees for details of other course-related costs.

How to Apply

Apply for this course through the Universities and Colleges Admissions Services (UCAS), using UCAS Hub.

UCAS Hub is a secure online application system that allows you to apply for full-time undergraduate courses at universities and colleges in the United Kingdom.

Your application does not have to be completed all at once. Register or sign in to UCAS to get started.

Once you submit your completed application, UCAS will process it and send it to your chosen universities and colleges.

The Institution code for the University of East Anglia is E14.

View our guide to applying through UCAS for useful tips, key dates and further information:

How to apply through UCAS(opens in a new window)

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