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Museum Exhibition Planning & Design Masters

From masterful storytelling to innovative compages, University of the Arts' Museum Exhibition Planning and Blueprint MFA students are disquisitional and strategic thinkers who use their creative tools to design experiences that cultivate curiosity, build empathy and inspire people to action. Our graduates are expert storytellers, content creators and designers for a broad range of audiences, and become on to work in museums, creative agencies and nonprofits.

A Unique Learning Experience

After more than than 25 years, the nation's only Main of Fine Arts in Museum Exhibition Planning and Design (MEPD) program remains at the forefront of the speedily evolving museum field. As office of the Schoolhouse of Design, our MFA focuses on design thinking and creative problem-solving.

Get A Well-Rounded Didactics

Our museum programs are purposefully multidisciplinary. Students may choose constituent courses outside of the MEPD core curriculum, such as Explorations in Sustainability, Grant Writing, Professional person Practice, Team Dynamics, and Universal Pattern and Accessibility. They may too select courses from studio and seminar resources in the Schoolhouse of Design.

Our Facilities

With premier facilities located on campus, students have access to the Middle for Immersive Media, Makerspace and Product Design studio to have their coursework from a theoretical realm to the physical as they are challenged to epitome and evaluate their ideas.

Enroll in an Inclusive Program

Whether already in the field or aspiring to affect the public good, applicants from all backgrounds are encouraged to use their talents and passion to advance the missions and touch of our great cultural institutions.

In the Classroom

The Museum Exhibition Planning and Design MFA degree program provides a boutique learning feel: Class sizes are kept minor to let for personalized attention from an impressive faculty of working museum professionals. Theory is put into activity through inclusive practice, with opportunities to work with real-world clients and in cantankerous-disciplinary teams.

Our classroom is Philadelphia, the nation'southward outset UNESCO Earth Heritage City, with backside-the-scenes access to hundreds of museums, cultural institutions and historical sites that are as lively and agile today every bit they were in the 1700s. Our national network of alumni and partnering museums provides students with valuable and applied internship experiences.

MA Museum Studies

Museum Studies students become powerful advocates for museums and other institutions. Our graduates arts and crafts and execute missions and strategic plans, expand and educate audiences through marketing and community outreach, write grants, and heighten money to fund vital museum efforts. This 45-credit program takes 1.5 years, full time, to complete.

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MFA Museum Exhibition Planning & Design

The MEPD Program prepares students to be critical and strategic thinkers in the globe of exhibition and program development and design. Our graduates are adept story-tellers, content creators and designers for a wide range of audiences, and go on to piece of work in museums, artistic agencies and non-profits. This 60-credit program takes 2 years, full time, to consummate.

Events

Twice per year, the Museum Studies Department takes reward of our unique geographical position to visit renowned institutions and design firms along the Northeast corridor, from New York to Baltimore to Washington, D.C.

There are additional field trips embedded in certain core courses. For instance, students in Exploring in Philadelphia Museums accept weekly field trips to some of the metropolis'due south iconic museums and subconscious cultural and historic gems. Philadelphia has a wonderfully generous museum community that is committed to engaging with future leaders in our field.

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Field Trips

Embedded in various Museum Studies courses are field trips to local museums in Philadelphia and museums along the east coast. Students make connections with working professionals and gain a behind the scenes perspective.

Field Trips /

Embedded in various Museum Studies courses are field trips to local museums in Philadelphia and museums forth the east declension. Students make connections with working professionals and proceeds a backside the scenes perspective.

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Eastern Land Penitentiary

International Spy Museum, Washington, DC.

Longwood Gardens

Mercer Museum

The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Science History Found

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC.

The Franklin Institute

The Mütter Museum at The Higher of Physicians of Philadelphia

The Rosenbach

Wonderspaces Philadelphia

Museum Exhibition Planning and Pattern students research, plan, develop and design exhibitions and interactive experiences; create digital and concrete models of iii-dimensional spaces; build and exam prototype components; practice audience research; and engage in other aspects of museum piece of work.

An accessibility workshop with experience designer Ben Bakery.

Centered around a collaborative studio environment, students remainder easily-on work with existent-world challenges through partnerships with museums, nonprofits and other cultural institutions. The program is designed to be collaborative and offers students opportunities to apply the theory about traditional and contemporary approaches to complex team-based projects—the standard in the museum field.

Areas of study include

• Accessibility,
• Audience research,
• Building materials and techniques,
• Content development,
• Customs engagement,
• Estimator aided pattern,
• Drawing and sketching,
• Exhibit design,
• Model making,
• Lighting,
• Prototype testing,
• Storytelling,
• Sustainability, and
• Universal Design.

Full Credits: sixty
Duration: two years, total-time

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Fall: xvi.v credits
Museum Exhibition Design Studio I (iv.5c)
Museum History & Theory (1.5c)
Museum Audition & Evaluation     (3c)
Environmental Graphic Design (3c)
Architectural Drawing as a Visualizing Tool (1.5c)
Essentials of Graphic Software (3c)

Spring: 16.five credits
Prototyping for Community Engagement (3c)
Museum Seminar: Museums & Gild (3c)
Museum Exhibition Design Studio II (6c)
Museum Lighting (1.5c)
Calculator-Aided Drafting: Vectorworks (1.5c)
Exhibition Materials & Methods (1.5c)

Summer
Museum/Studio Internship (3c)

Fall: fifteen credits
CAD: Vectorworks & Showroom Pattern or Showroom Content Development (1.5c)
Museum Exhibition Pattern Studio 3 (four.5c)
Museum Internship (3c)
Thesis Development (3c)
Constituent (3c)

Leap: nine–12 credits
Digital Media for Museum Interpretation (3c)
Thesis (3c)
Elective (3–6c)

Explore the Full Curriculum

Customs Engagement & Social Bear upon

Students test out their interactive popular-upward showroom.

Museums play an important role as catalysts for new dialogue and potential activeness. In addition to each semester's coursework, you will participate in an annual design sprint. The dart is a carefully choreographed, three-twenty-four hours process that answers critical questions and produces innovative solutions through design, prototyping and idea testing.

You'll be able to collaborate with content experts, local organizations and members of the community on real-world bug. Yous'll develop and design interpretive popular-up exhibits for public audiences, which provide a powerful context for applying concepts and principles from your class of report.

Internships

The summer internship provides students with an extended opportunity to gain easily-on experience at one or more than of the seventy museums in the greater Philadelphia area and in other cultural institutions or design firms elsewhere in the U.S. or across. Individual internship choices are fabricated based on each educatee's needs, academic specialization, professional museum goals, experience and skills

University of the Arts, in conjunction with the Richard C. von Hess Foundation, awards an annual, fully funded internship at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore to a student in the Museum Exhibition Planning and Design program. See the Scholarships tab for more data.

The small cohort size in the Museum Exhibition Planning and Design program allows for personalized mentorship from the program manager and kinesthesia, in order to guide students toward their anticipated career paths.

A trip to the Mercer Museum.

Internships are an opportunity for students to gain practical experience and mentorship outside the program in a variety of museum fields. Students can also learn from and network with industry professionals during seminars and guest speaker events. Over the form of the program, students' portfolios are developed through projects, internships and theses.

Students tin proceeds easily-on experience at one or more than of the 70 museums in the greater Philadelphia area and in other cultural institutions or design firms, elsewhere in the U.Due south. or beyond.

Our students intern for a wide range of art museums, history museums, science and technology centers, and natural history museums as well as aquariums, children's museums, gardens, historic houses, societies and zoos.

A trip to the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Recent internships include

• American Museum of Natural History, New York;
• Bluecadet, Philadelphia;
• de Immature museum, San Francisco;
• Field Museum, Chicago;
• Franklin Institute, Philadelphia;
• Guggenheim Museum, New York;
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston;
• New York Hall of Scientific discipline, Queens, New York;
• Philadelphia Museum of Fine art;
• Please Touch on Museum, Philadelphia;
• Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; and
• Walters Fine art Museum, Baltimore.

Facilities

As a educatee in the Museum Exhibition Planning and Design program, yous'll have behind-the-scenes access to hundreds of Philadelphia's museums, including cultural institutions and historical sites. In addition to local museums, you'll have the opportunity to intern at institutions, blueprint and development firms across the nation.

A trip to the Franklin Constitute.

Recent institutions that have hosted internships include

• American Museum of Natural History, New York;
• Bluecadet, Philadelphia;
• de Immature museum, San Francisco;
• Field Museum, Chicago;
• Franklin Plant, Philadelphia;
• Guggenheim Museum, New York;
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston;
• New York Hall of Science, Queens, New York;
• Philadelphia Museum of Art;
• Please Touch Museum, Philadelphia;
• Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; and
• Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

Recent design and evolution firms that accept hosted internships include

• Ralph Appelbaum Associates, New York;
• Jane Clark Chermayeff & Associates, New York; and
• SKOLNICK Compages + Blueprint Partnership, New York.

Movement capture sit-in at CIM.

Center for Immersive Media
UArts' new Center for Immersive Media (CIM) is a five,600-square-foot facility defended to exploring the fields of virtual and mixed reality, functioning motion-capture, and human-computer interaction. The space includes

• optical motion capture system for full-body performance capture and location-based virtual reality applications;
• a four-channel audio organisation, multiple video projectors and lighting, also as a control station;
• a 16-station computing classroom with PCs optimized for real-time graphics rendering; and
• two large projection rooms with ceiling grids for the evolution of installations and virtual environments.

Learn more about CIM

3-D printers in the Makerspace.

Makerspace
The University of the Arts' Albert M. Greenfield Makerspace is a 3,500-foursquare-foot digital and traditional fabrication studio that brings together the entire academy community and serves as a catalyst for the collaboration, experimentation and innovation that's feature of UArts.

The Makerspace houses state-of-the-art digital and analog equipment that allows students to create almost anything they tin imagine. Information technology is outfitted with

• 3-D printers and scanners;
• a router and a mill;
• laser, vinyl and substrate cutters;
• a printed excursion lath and decal printers;

and much more.

Larn more about Makerspace

Faculty

Our faculty are all working museum professionals who are well-known in their respective fields and are parts of all-encompassing networks of prominent professionals and institutions.

Stephanie Reyer

Museum Exhibition Planning & Design (MFA)

Museum Exhibition Planning & Pattern Program Leader

Mickey Maley

Museum Studies (MA)

Museum Education and Museum Studies Plan Managing director

Mike Adams

Museum Studies (MA)

Director of Didactics at the National Constitution Center who commits to serving the modest museum customs.

Jane East. Boyd

Museum Exhibition Planning & Design (MFA)

Contained curator/exhibit developer, museum consultant, and freelance author and editor.

Polly McKenna-Cress

Museum Studies (MA)

Chief Engagement Officer for the Please Touch Museum with over 30 years of experience in museums and pattern firms.

Richard Cress

Museum Studies (MA)

Primary of Alusiv blueprint studio with over 30 years of feel in pattern services.

Lauren Duguid

MFA '10 (Museum Exhibition Planning & Design)

Museum Exhibition Planning & Design (MFA)

Exhibition Designer with experience working in collaborative environments in the museum field.

Stacey Mann

Museum Studies (MA)

Interpretive strategist and learning experience designer with over xx years of experience in the museum industry.

Ellen Owens

MA '06 (Museum Education)

Museum Studies (MA)

Merle-Smith Managing director of Learning Programs at the Penn Museum and President of Emerging Art Leaders: Philadelphia.

Dana Schloss

MFA '06 (Museum Exhibition Planning & Blueprint)

Museum Studies (MA)

Prototyper and showroom programmer in science and children'southward museums.

Beth Van Why

MID '06

Museum Exhibition Planning & Design (MFA)

Projection Manager at Becker & Frondorf with twenty years of pattern, museum and construction feel.

Robert Vosburgh

Museum Studies (MA)

Managing director of Gift Planning at the Academy of Pennsylvania.

Mira Zergani

Museum Studies (MA)

Managing director of Development at the Morris Arboretum with over 25 years of feel in fundraising and non-profit direction.

Alumni & Careers

Graduates of the program hold leadership positions in museums and cultural institutions beyond the country and are innovators in their fields.

Recent graduates include

• Ciara Cryst MFA 'nineteen, Content Developer, Carnegie Museum of Natural History
• Adrienne Testa MFA '19, Vice President of Museum Experiences, Sciencenter
• Celia Helfrich MFA '18, Designer, History Colorado Centre
• Holly Mutascio '18, Exhibition Designer, Musical Musical instrument Museum
• Sarah Aman MFA '16, Exhibit and Graphic Designer, PGAV Destinations
• Michael Keys MFA 'xvi, Exhibition Director, Mütter Museum at the Higher of Physicians of Philadelphia
• Louise Barrett 'fourteen, Visitor Logistics Coordinator, Princeton Academy Art Museum
• Helaina Blume '14, Director of Exhibitions, Museum of the Earth and Cayuga Nature Eye
• Allison Aubrey '13, The Franklin Institute
• Layla Ballner '13, Company Services Representative, Penn Museum
• Karl Allens '12, Production and Facilities Manager, The Mercury Shop
• Kelly Floyd '11, Senior Manager of Design and Project Management, Denver Zoological Foundation
• Ken Davis MFA 'x, Exhibit Planner, National Park Service
• Ed Mooney '10, Design Director, Experiences at National Geographic
• Christine McMonagle '09, Communications Director, Metro Pictures Gallery
• Amanda Ramierez '08, Senior Designer, Getty Museum
• Kate Quinn '07, Director of Exhibitions and Special Programs, Penn Museum
• Dottie Miles '06, Acquaintance Director, Interpretation and Exhibitions, Longwood Gardens
• Allegra Burnette '95 Principal, Allegra Burnette & Associates LLC
• Michael Christiano, Deputy Director and Curator of Public Do, Smart Museum of Art

Philadelphia-based museums and institutions that have hired UArts alumni include

• Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel Academy,
• African American Museum,
• The Barnes Foundation,
• Fleisher Art Memorial,
• The Franklin Institute,
• Magic Gardens,
• Museum of the American Revolution,
• Mütter Museum at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia,
• Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and
• Penn Museum.

Our Grads Beloved What They Practice.

Alumni Spotlight: Connecting with Claire  is a portrait of alumna Claire Cossaboon MA 'thirteen (Museum Communication), who is currently the membership manager at Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey.

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Want More? Explore Our Network.

Our more-than-25-year legacy at UArts means we have over 300 graduates working in the field. You tin run into more than of our graduates on LinkedIn; y'all can likewise request to join our LinkedIn group.

Common careers a graduate of the MEPD program could obtain are

• content developers,
• exhibition designers,
• independent entrepreneurs,
• interpretive planners,
• museum and nonprofit leaders,
• project managers, and
• prototypers and fabricators.

Scholarships

Graduate merit-based scholarships are awarded on the basis of academic excellence and demonstrated talent. These are awarded based on archway materials; no carve up application is required. The Trustee's, Dean'due south and Managing director's scholarships are highly selective awards and range in amount, up to approximately 40% of tuition.

The Museum Studies von Hess Internship Fellowship

With the generous support of the Richard C. von Hess Foundation, UArts offers iii, fully funded internship opportunities to UArts Museum Studies students, in partnership with 3 acclaimed institutions: the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston; the Baltimore Museum of Fine art; and the Walters Art Museum, besides in Baltimore.

Benefits
Successful students professionally benefit from a x-week internship experience tailored to their area of report, too a living stipend of $7,000–$8,000, depending on internship placement.

How to Utilise
Graduate students must be enrolled and in good continuing (3.0 or above) in one of the three Museum Studies degree programs. Students utilise at the showtime of their second semester (Feb) and complete the von Hess awarding by the due appointment (including a résumé, an essay of one's professional person purpose and goals, two letters of recommendation from MS faculty and an official UArts transcript). The department makes recommendations to host museums, which select the last fellows.

Financial Aid

Most graduate students enrolled on a full-time basis are eligible for some type of demand-based aid. Additionally, some scholarship opportunities take demand-based criteria into business relationship. All students who are U.S. citizens or eligible non-citizens and are enrolled in a degree programme are encouraged to apply past completing the Gratis Awarding for Federal Educatee Assistance (FAFSA).

Larn more about graduate financial assistance.

Price of attendance includes almanac tuition and tin can also cover on-campus housing, meals, books and supplies, laptops, transportation, a student services fee, lab fees (for sure courses), health insurance, and personal expenses. Many of our graduate students receive fiscal aid and scholarships to assistance outset these costs.

See graduate tuition and fees.

How to Utilize

Awarding Deadline

Autumn 2022 priority deadline: Our fall 2022 priority deadline to utilize has passed, simply we will continue to accept applications as infinite remains available in each program. We cannot take fall 2022 applications after Aug. 12, 2022.

Review graduate tuition, financial aid and scholarship information.

Application Requirements

• Start or resume your application.

• $lx nonrefundable awarding fee

  • If the toll of the application fee is a bulwark, contact Admissions to request a fee waiver code.

• Official undergraduate transcript

  • Official transcripts must exist sent direct from the higher where you have earned, or will earn, your undergraduate degree by mail service, email or a secure electronic document-commitment service.

  • If you take earned, or will earn, your undergraduate degree outside the U.S., run into our transcript requirements for international graduate applicants beneath.

• Two letters of recommendation

  • 2 letters of recommendation from professors or professionals in your field, who are familiar with your capabilities, are required. In the case that these recommenders are not available, you may request messages from colleagues, collaborators or peers, if necessary.

  • Applicants must enter contact data for their recommenders on the application. An electronic mail will be sent to recommenders providing a link for them to upload their letter. Letters of recommendation may also be submitted by the recommender via email to gradcredentials@uarts.edu.

• Statement of intent

  • Statements should be a minimum of 1 to two pages and detail your professional plans, interests and goals. What practise you hope to proceeds by your studies at the graduate level?

  • Your statement of intent may be uploaded during the application process or added after submission via your applicant status portal.

• Résumé

  • Your résumé should highlight all your professional accomplishments, including employment, internships, honors, exhibitions and publications.

  • Your résumé may be uploaded during the awarding process or added after submission via your applicant status portal.

• Portfolio

  • MFA applicants should submit a portfolio of 15 to 20 examples of piece of work. Your portfolio should showcase your strengths as a potential student. Provide a curated selection of work you lot have completed. It might include, but is not limited to, examples of ii-D and 3-D design, creative or disquisitional writing, event or program plans, etc. Your work should demonstrate design thinking, disquisitional thinking, versatility and/or collaboration.

  • The portfolio may be uploaded during the application process or via your applicant condition portal later submission. You must confirm when your submission is complete via the linked electronic course earlier your portfolio can exist reviewed for admission.

• Interview

  • Afterward your awarding has been processed, you will be contacted for a personal interview conducted by the program director. Interviews may exist conducted on campus or by phone or Zoom.

International Applicants

In addition to the requirements listed to a higher place, international applicants or those with foreign credentials must submit

• Official undergraduate transcripts

  • Applicants who accept bookish documents from institutions exterior the U.S. are required to provide original, attested or certified true copies of academic records from the institution where they have earned, or will earn, their undergraduate degree. These records should be in the original language in which they were issued.

  • For postsecondary schoolhouse records that are not in English, applicants must also submit an official translation of all their bookish documents. Translations must be a complete, literal, word-for-word translation in the aforementioned format of the original bookish document. Transcriptscannot be translated by the pupil or any members of their family. Adequate translators include English language teachers or other school officials, professional translators, or a local EducationUSA role.

  • Admissions might request that students obtain a course-by-course credential evaluation if nosotros are not able to confirm the equivalent level to a U.South. undergraduate degree.

• Proof of English proficiency

  • For international applicants whose principal language is non English, and who take non completed two semesters of higher-level English in a college/university where the language of instruction is English language, proof of English proficiency is required.

  • Recommended minimums for English proficiency exams are as follows.

    • TOEFL iBT: 79

    • IELTS: 6.0

    • Duolingo: 100

  • Applicants who run into the bookish and artistic requirements for access but whose scores practice non meet the English proficiency requirement for degree report might receive an offer of conditional admission that requires enrollment in the university's English every bit a 2d Language Institute (ESLI). Applicants who successfully consummate ESLI will then be able to brainstorm their degree program studies in the fall semester.

  • In special circumstances, applicants who do not have admission to the TOEFL, IELTS or Duolingo English tests can request a waiver of this requirement. The request should be submitted by e-mail to admissions@uarts.edu. Requests will so be reviewed on a case-by-case basis and might require an interview.

• I-20/F-i international student visa information:Upon acceptance, students will exist contacted past University of the Arts' International Educatee Programs office, regarding visa counseling and all materials required to create an I-xx in order to obtain an F-1 visa. Contact Mara Flamm, director of international student programs, with any questions regarding your I-20 or F-1 visa.

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