Museums and Cultural Heritage

Museums and Cultural Heritage incorporates the fields of architecture, anthropology, art, history, and cultural studies to study the identification, preservation, and/or representation of art and heritage materials. Such materials often serve as the evidentiary basis for humanistic, architectural, and social science disciplines. The Museums and Cultural Heritage minor is an interdisciplinary course of study, housed in the School of Humanities.

Students in the minor will learn about the preservation and use of tangible and intangible cultural heritage for study, archival purposes, and public display through the study of museums and cultural heritage institutions, new digital analysis tools and media, and traditional methods of preservation and analysis.

Minor 

• Minor in Museums and Cultural Heritage

Museums and Cultural Heritage does not currently offer an academic program at the graduate level. 

For Rice University degree-granting programs:
To view the list of official course offerings, please see Rice’s Course Catalog.
To view the most recent semester’s course schedule, please see Rice's Course Schedule.

Description and Code Legend

Note: Internally, the university uses the following descriptions, codes, and abbreviations for this academic program. The following is a quick reference:  

Course Catalog/Schedule

• Course offerings/subject codes: Courses from various subjects may apply towards this program

Department (or Program) Description and Code

•  Museums and Cultural Heritage: MUCH

Undergraduate Minor Description and Code

• Minor in Museums and Cultural Heritage: MUCH

CIP Code and Description¹

• MUCH Minor: CIP Code/Title: 30.1401 - Museology/Museum Studies