International Cultural Heritage Management MA

Durham University

The MA in International Cultural Heritage Management explores the key issues of cultural heritage management around the world and its influence on society, from government policy to local communities. You will come to understand how cultural heritage management offers a sense of identity, maintains social diversity and cohesion, and enables dialogue between cultures.You will learn how successful heritage management plays a vital role in providing quality education, cultural protection methodologies, sustaining communities, and developing economic potential, as well as how cultural heritage is an essential tool in helping to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals.However, heritage management is not without its challenges. This course will also introduce you to the issues it faces across the world, from the increasingly faster pace of global change and development, the growing demand for larger infrastructure, mass tourism, encroachment, neglect, climate change, natural disasters and targeted destruction, for example in wars and conflicts.The course benefits from the university’s location within its own UNESCO World Heritage Site and examines cultural heritage management from a local, national and international perspective. It will provide the foundations for both academic and professional career choices, in either cultural heritage research or the professional practice route. Your Professional Placement will provide you with firsthand experience of many of these opportunities and challenges heritage sites face.We believe cultural heritage forms part of our individual basic right to participate in cultural life, and we aim to create the next generation of leaders in the field, equipping you with the skills to address its many and complex challenges as well as contributing to the successes of developing cultural heritage in an increasingly globalised and changeable world.