Sections
Archaeological Sciences | Heritage Studies | World Archaeology
Regions
Africa | Americas | Britain | Central Asia | China | Egypt | Europe | Greek | India | Islamic | London | Mediterranean | Middle East | Pacific | Roman | Turkey
Time Periods
Palaeolithic | Neolithic | Bronze Age | Iron Age | Classical | Medieval | Modern
Techniques, subjects and themes
Agriculture | Archaeobotany | Archaeological Survey | Archaeological Theory | Art History | Artefact Analysis | Audio-visual media | Biological Anthropology | Buildings | Community Archaeology | Conflict Archaeology | Conservation | Cultural Heritage | Dendrochronology | Empires | Environment & Climate | Evolutionary Theory | Experimental | Field | Forensic | Geoarchaeology | GIS | History of Archaeology | Human Evolution | Hunting & Herding | Landscape | Lithic Analysis | Maritime | Materials Analysis | Mathematical Modelling | Museum Studies | Photography | Production & Exchange | Public Archaeology | Public Engagement | Ritual & Religion | Site Management | States & Urbanism | Statistical Analysis | Zooarchaeology
Museum Studies
The Institute of Archaeology is renowned as one of the world’s leading centres for research and training in the interdisciplinary fields of museum studies, conservation studies and cultural heritage studies. The Institute’s highly successful MA in Museum Studies combines professional skills training with a critical academic perspective. Its graduates are to be found in senior positions throughout the global museum sector. Based in the heart of one of the world’s great museum capitals, and networked with colleagues through the UCL Centre for Museums, Heritage and Material Culture Studies and UCL Museums and Collections, the Institute hosts a vibrant community of researchers concerned with all spheres of contemporary museology.
Research
Projects
- Ancient Chinese Bronzes (with special reference to European collections)
- Between Preservation and Erasure
- Building Solomon's Temple
- Children and the Material Culture of Conflict
- Collections in Exile, Persons in Exile
- Conducting Visitor Studies with the Experience Recorder
- Conservation's 'Catch-22'
- Cooperative learning
- Decolonising Archaeology: Ethnographies in Egypt
- Digital Lahun Papyri
- Egypt Object Subject: 'treasuring things' as knowledge-histories
- Egyptian Periodisation - Object Categories as Historical Signatures (EPOCHS)
- Family Stories Project
- Intangible Heritage, Qatar
- Intangible Heritage, Thailand
- Joan du Plat-Taylor Project
- Keys of the Past: Keys to the Future
- Museum, Field, Metropolis, Colony: Practices of Social Governance
- Palimpsest Memoryscapes
- Petrie Palestinian Project
- Public Archaeology and Museums in China
- Reanimating Cultural Heritage
- Understanding Heritage Wellbeing
Networks
- Endangerment and Its Consequences: Documenting and Preserving Nature and Culture (external network)
- An Ethnography of Archaeology (IoA network)
- Heritage of Historic Cities and Multiculturalism (external network)
- History of Archaeology (IoA network)
- Material Cultures of Prehistoric and Dynastic Egypt (IoA network)
- Pacific Islands Research Network (IoA network)
Centres
People
- Marilena Alivizatou
- Paul Basu
- Beverley Butler
- Sarah Byrne
- Paolo Del Vesco
- Rodney Harrison
- Theano Moussouri
- Tim Schadla-Hall
Degrees
- MA in Principles of Conservation
- MA in Cultural Heritage Studies
- MA in Egyptian Archaeology
- MA in Managing Archaeological Sites
- MA in Maritime Archaeology
- MA in Museum Studies
- MA in Public Archaeology
Courses
graduate
- Museum and site interpretation
- The Museum: Critical Perspectives
- Managing Museums
- Collections management and care
- Museum Communication
- Exhibition Project
- Collections Curatorship
- Near Eastern Material Cultures I: Neolithic and Early Bronze Age
- Near Eastern Material Cultures II: Middle Bronze Age through the Iron Age
