Graduates will be able to perform the following professional roles and related functions in the fields of employment here listed:
- CURATOR
Functions:
• Coordinating museums and institutions (cultural centres, cultural heritage offices, schools, etc.) activities with the resources and needs of the development of the territory,
• coordinating relations between the relative institutes, the bodies in charge of the protection of territorial, cultural and environmental heritage, regional offices and associations, also for organising monitoring activities.
• gathering and representing the cultural needs of the community and promoting citizens' participation in the cultural life of the institution
• prearranging documentation, monitoring, verification and evaluation of the actions implemented,
• programming and coordinating the activities of inventoring and cataloguing collections according to national and regional standards and guaranteeing public enjoyment,
• developing the cataloguing and inventoring cards collections, according to the national and regional regulations and fulfilling their updating,
• contributing to the updating of the methods, standards and cataloguing instruments implemented by the museum using IT and computerised technologies,
• planning day-to-day maintenance, preservation and restoration,
• defining programmes for maintenance of the works and verifying their implementation, also based on environmental and microclimatic conditions,
• implementing the monitoring of environmental and climatic conditions of the exhibition halls and stores, identifying any measures to be implemented for the best preservation of the collections,
• planning restoration,
• gathering and looking after the documentation of the interventions of restoration, in collaboration with the registrar,
• conducting or assisting in the execution of diagnostic analysis for the purpose of research or planning preservation and restoration,
• analysing and interpreting the data pertaining to constituting materials, execution technique and state of heritage preservation,
• defining and taking part in programmes for increasing collections,
• contributing to developing the criteria and planning collection exhibitions,
• conducting and coordinating history of art study activities,
• cooperating to the appreciation of the collections through cultural, educational and scientific communication and supporting the study activities for the development of an informative and cognitive system,
• planning and coordinating activities related to temporary exhibitions and publishing for the requesting museum or institution,
• supervising and reporting on the territorial cultural heritage included in the assigned responsibilities as regards territorial technical offices and authorised public offices.
Career opportunities:
In the role of officer and executive at:
- Public Administration (Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, Cultural Heritage Offices, local government bodies);
- Art Galleries, Museums, public and private art galleries, cultural institutes,
- Sites restoring works of art,
- Banking Foundations, non-profit making organisations and private foundations
- SPECIALISED EDITOR
Functions:
• planning and coordinating publishing and communication pertaining to cultural heritages.
• fulfilling the functions of the area curator
• writing articles and overseeing specialised feature columns
Career opportunities:
- traditional and web specialised publishing companies
- private and public foundations
- museums, public and private art galleries, auction houses, antiques galleries.
The degree programme project has been submitted to selected external stakeholders in order to receive their opinions and feedbacks on the learning outcomes and the professional profiles.
