Discover Cultural Management: A Path to Collaboration and Connection

Cultural management invites you to explore the intersection of art, economics, and administration, empowering you to transform cultural landscapes and create a lasting societal impact. As a cultural manager, you’ll connect diverse communities, foster creativity, and lead with vision, making the arts more accessible and engaging in today’s ever-changing environment. In a world that demands multidisciplinary expertise, this programme equips you with the tools to address complex challenges using ethical, creative, and sustainable approaches. With a comprehensive focus on all areas of culture and the arts, you’ll be ready to inspire and lead in both traditional and emerging fields.

Two-Year Master’s in Cultural Management: Empowering Future Cultural Innovators

The two-year Master’s in Cultural Management, offered in English, is a joint initiative with the Estonian Business School, delivering an international, student-centered programme and culminating in diplomas from both institutions. Expert instructors from across Europe guide you through comprehensive content, emphasizing practical application of new knowledge. Through a combination of theory and practice, you’ll gain the skills to connect the arts with broader societal and economic sectors. As a facilitator and mediator, you’ll learn to navigate and shape the ever-evolving cultural landscape, opening doors to exciting opportunities in the cultural sector and emerging interdisciplinary roles.

A Programme Tailored to You

The curriculum is based on challenge-based learning, allowing students to use personal projects or workplace challenges as the foundation of their studies. This approach fosters active learning through real-world applications. Whether it’s a project from your current job or a new idea, you’ll receive support from teachers, mentors, and experts to work towards practical solutions. The programme links theory to practice, offering the option to connect your project directly to your final thesis.

International Expertise

Our programme is taught by leading experts from across Europe, including Estonia, Finland, the UK, France, Spain, Germany, Poland, and beyond. These professionals bring their diverse experience and insights to ensure that you receive a well-rounded and globally relevant education.

Active Alumni Community

The programme boasts over 100 graduates who are thriving as leaders, managers, consultants, entrepreneurs, and academics, making a significant impact in the international cultural management field.

Our alumni are actively shaping the cultural and creative industries, working in both the public and private sectors, including government organizations, universities, theatres, museums, NGOs, foundations, and private companies. An impressive 98% of our graduates are employed within the cultural and creative sectors. Here are just a few examples of the diverse roles our alumni hold:

• Music: Heads of music institutions, festival music editors, managing directors of choirs, concert producers, freelance conductors, choral managers, orchestra managers, independent music managers, and music teachers.
• Theatre: Theatre directors, youth work managers in theatre, marketing managers, performance department heads, freelance performing arts managers, and marketing assistants.
• Education: Professors, administrators in higher arts education, and professional mentors.
• Film and Media: Music editors for publications, global content streaming platform sales executives.
• Museums: Museum directors, communication managers, event and development managers.
• Literature: Government advisers on literature, library marketing specialists, and key account managers for libraries.
• Fine Arts: Curators, communication managers for architecture organizations, and art auction development professionals.

Professional Networks and International Projects

As a student in the Cultural Management programme, you gain access to influential professional networks that connect you to the latest trends, resources, and opportunities in the cultural field. They open doors to international exchange, best practices, and collaborations that enrich your learning experience and expand your horizons:

• European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centres (ENCATC)
• ERASMUS+ Exchange Programme
• NORDPLUS Exchange Programme
• ActinArt – Network of artistic universities aiming to enhance students’ professional development and readiness for their own career management
• E4TLI – Erasmus+ multilateral project on education for technological literacy and inclusion

Master your future in culture – shape your career with the MA in Cultural Management at EAMT!