This postgraduate course is intended for professionals currently working, or wishing to work, in public or private museums, exhibition centers, and galleries, including decision-makers, commissioners, curators, conservators, registers, educators, restorers, public relations professionals, art transporters, and others interested in the subject.
Postgraduate Studies in Museum Security
Scientific Area
Economic and Business Sciences
A museum, or an exhibition center, is a particularly demanding environment where sometimes divergent interests intersect, between fulfilling the organization’s primary mission of encouraging and enabling the enjoyment of its collection and ensuring that this enjoyment can be carried out in conditions of adequate safety for people, for the works and for the facilities, seeking to avoid jeopardizing that enjoyment for future generations.
Given the diverse types of institutions they may present, as well as the variety of audiences they serve, a holistic approach to security is required. This approach goes beyond the simple allocation of resources and involves all functions of the organization, managing the various dimensions present in an efficient and effective manner.
Activist demonstrations causing damage to exhibited works, the loan of works to organizations that do not have an adequate level of security, the theft of works from storage, armed assault and robbery, the materialization of natural phenomena, and the presence of cybercrime are, among others, situations that, combined with the sometimes incalculable historical, social, and economic value of the works, require museums and similar organizations to maintain a constant balance between visitor comfort and the responsibility of safeguarding the exhibited pieces. This, coupled with the ever-present scarcity of resources, necessitates management subject to best practices.
- To provide structured, systematic, and specific knowledge about the process of producing and implementing security in art exhibition spaces, taking into account the various roles involved;
- Gain expertise in the conception, design, resource allocation, procurement, implementation, and results evaluation of security systems;
- To provide security management strategies for museum operations using best practices.
Presentation
4 hours
The organizational and operational environment of art exhibitions
4 hours
Threat analysis and risk management
16 hours
Designing a security system
8 hours
System organization
24 hours
Security systems
8 hours
Security planning
24 hours
Moving works of art
8 hours
Introduction to Cybersecurity
10 hours
Legislation and regulations; final assessment
4 hours
António Freitas
António Paixão
Paulo Macedo
Paulo Salgueiro
Rui Pereira
Next Edition: Date to be announced.
Teaching Regime: In person
Duration: 3 mouths
ECTS:
Time: Tuesdays from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
- Registration fee: €100
- Registration fee: R$ 100
- School insurance: €20
- Certificate of qualifications: €75
- Tuition fee: €1875*
Original or certified copy of the Qualifications Certificate (a)
Color photograph
Curriculum vitae.
(a) Qualifications obtained at the Autonomous University do not require authentication. In the case of qualifications obtained abroad, in addition to the authentication of the copy(ies) described above, authentication by the Portuguese Embassy or Consulate in the country of origin of the academic qualification or by the Apostille of the Hague Convention is required. If the documents are not in Portuguese, translation of the documents by a translator recognized by the Portuguese diplomatic representation will be required.
Registration will only be validated upon payment of the fee and delivery (within a maximum of 30 days) of all requested documentation.
Failure to submit the aforementioned documents invalidates the registration and prevents attendance at the course.
