Post-Master's research in art history, archaeology and museology

A threefold observation

The last semester of Master 2, devoted to writing the dissertation crowning the second cycle of studies and defended at the end of the academic year, doesn't always allow students to calmly develop a thesis project that is sufficiently well-founded for it to prove relevant during the third cycle.
Doctoral students in their first year are often dismayed by the loneliness of their daily lives as young researchers. They clamor for more encounters, both with established researchers and with their peers.

A triple objective

• Strengthen the student's agility in the research environment, particularly in the world of museums and heritage, in mastering sources and resources (archives, libraries, documentation centers of museums and heritage establishments...),
• Specify a relevant research topic, assessing its opportunity, its feasibility within the three-year duration planned for the PhD. Elaborate the broad outlines of its problematic (issues, context, critical analysis),
• Consolidate working methods, both individual and collective, through a range of seminars, workshops and regular meetings assessed by ECTS credits.

The course will be assessed in 60 ECTS credits as follows:

• Participation in the "Research Methods and Instruments" Seminar:
  12 credits
• Participation in a seminar (of your choice): 6 credits
• Participation in a workshop: 6 credits
• Research project: written = 30 credits; oral presentation = 6 credits

Admission for students from the École du Louvre:
Teaching is open to holders of the "Diplôme de deuxième cycle de l'École du Louvre" on the basis of a portfolio, with a minimum mark of 14/20 on the dissertation.

Admission for external students :
Applications for admission by equivalence may be made by students from French or foreign universities or higher education establishments.

The online application form will be available from mid-April.
After validation of the form, the entire file must be returned by May 31 inclusive for the summer commission, and by October 1 inclusive, for the fall commission.

Fill in the online application form
 

Selection criteria:

The quality of the thesis project is a decisive criterion for selection. Once academic admissibility has been established, candidates are received by a member of the research team for a preliminary pedagogical interview, then files are examined by the research validation commission.

Post-master's registration fee (2023-2024): 274 euros.
Special fee for trainees in formation continue.