Department of Culture and Aesthetics
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Study or start your research with us!
Welcome to the Department of Culture and Aesthetics!
We conduct research and offer education in the History of Ideas, Art History, Literature, Musicology, Theatre and Performance Studies, Curating, and Cultural Heritage Studies.
Applications for autumn 2026 are open
EU/EEA and Swiss students, apply by 15 April
Master Programmes
Art History, Literature, Theatre and Performance Studies
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Education
We offer courses and programmes in Art History, History of Ideas, Literature, Musicology, Theatre and Performance Studies, CUltural Heritage Studies and Curating.
Research
We offer a dynamic and interdisciplinary research environment in the field of humanities.
Art History
Research on art and architecture, images and built environment, material and visual culture.
Cultural Heritage Studies
An interdisciplinary research field studying how the past is used, valued, and institutionalized in contemporary society.
History of Ideas
We explore ideas, discourses, expressions or experiences in the past, which must be understood on their own historical terms.
Literature
The literary researcher comments, analyses, historicizes and interprets literature.
Musicology
Studies of music as a sounding, notated and mediated phenomenon in structural, historical, ethnological and multimedia contexts.
Theatre Studies
Theatre Studies, which also includes Dance Studies and Performance Studies, is an active and internationally oriented research environment
Master's Programme in Curating
In collaboration with the schools of Business and Law at together with prominent art institutions in Stockholm
Accelerator
The Stockholm University exhibition space where art, science and societal issues meet. Next door to our department.