BHU invites applications for MA (Museology), amends eligibility criteria, check details
All those candidates who are interested must note that the eligibility criteria for the course have been amended. Earlier, the eligibility condition for admission to the program is MA in History/Ancient Indian History, Culture & Archaeology/History/Sanskrit with was minimum 50 per cent marks.
Banaras Hindu University is now inviting applications for the MA Museology offered by the Department of Museology. All those candidates who are interested must note that the eligibility criteria for the course have been amended. Earlier, the eligibility condition for admission to the program is MA in History/Ancient Indian History, Culture & Archaeology/History/Sanskrit with was minimum 50 per cent marks.
Now, as per the new eligibility, students with a minimum 50 per cent marks in bachelor's degree in Arts & Humanities/Social Sciences are now eligible for admission to the program. Banaras Hindu University initially started a Post Graduate Diploma Course in Museology in the year 1968 under Bharat Kala Bhawan. It was then upgraded to M.A. in the Museology program in 1979. Then Museology section was made part of the Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology in 2006.
Course programme:
Semester I
History of Museums & Collections
Documentation, Presentation and Interpretation
Museum Education & Research
Computer Application in the Museum
Indian Art Philosophy
SEMESTER – II
Indian Painting Categories of Collections in Museum
Museum Management and Administration
Museum and Public Relation
New Museology and Conditions in Indian Museum
Traditional Textiles - Major Types
SEMESTER – III
Aspects of Indian Sculpture/Iconography
Project Report/Tour Report/Viva-voce
Museum Architecture Storage and Security
Exhibitions and their handling
Decorative Arts of India
SEMESTER – IV
Museum Conservation and Preservation Internship / Practical Training
Expanding Dimensions of Museum and Museology
Science & Anthropological Museum
To be selected from the Courses offered by the Department.
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