Melbourne History Workshop Practicum (ARTS90030)

This subject embeds students in a multidisciplinary collaborative team of curators, collection managers, heritage practitioners, creative artists, historians and informatics experts to apply and extend their academic skills in researching and communicating the past. It reflects upon the interactions between history making and public knowledge, and between history professionals, related specialists and the wider community.

Students will be practically involved in collaborative projects in applied history with galleries, libraries, archives and museums, local government or other institutional and community partners, gaining a broad understanding of practical challenges and creative possibilities across museum practice, cultural heritage conservation, cultural environments as historical documents, oral history and archival methods, local, family and institutional history, and digital technologies.