# Centre for Heritage & Museum Studies

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## [Centre for Heritage & Museum Studies](https://chms.cass.anu.edu.au/centre-heritage-museum-studies)

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**The Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies** promotes and develops critical heritage and museum studies as an interdisciplinary area of academic analysis and practice. We integrate research into practice and policy with a critical examination of the social, cultural and political ‘work’ that heritage does in society.

Our research and teaching in the Centre addresses the following issues:

- Cultural and public policy, management practices, cultural institutions
- Community and other grassroots expressions of identity, citizenship, nationhood and sense of place
- The intersection of social justice issues and social activism with expressions of material heritage and/or intangible heritage and museums
- Commemorative and memorial practices of marginalised communities
- Immigration and multiculturalism in museums and heritage
- Collection management and curation
- Tourism and global heritage
- Political cultures of globalisation and the international policy context
- Collective memory studies, public history and oral history
- Interpretation and exhibition development
- Visitor studies
- Affect and emotion
- Repatriation and restitution

## Study with us

- Undergraduate [minor](https://programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/minor/HAMS-MIN) in heritage studies
- [Master of Museum and Heritage Studies](https://programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/program/MMHS)
- [Master of Heritage Tourism Management](https://programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/program/mhrtm)
- [Graduate Certificate of Museum and Heritage Studies](https://programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/program/cmuhs)
- [Graduate Certificate in the Repatriation of Ancestral Remains and Cultural Objects](https://programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/program/crarc)
- [Heritage and Museum Studies HDR program](https://rsha.cass.anu.edu.au/students/future/iccr)
- [Professional Development courses](https://chms.cass.anu.edu.au/students/future/professional-development-courses)

## Centre Staff: Who are we and what do we do?

The Centre hosts a number of senior staff who are at the forefront of theoretical and critical developments in heritage and museum studies, as well as early and mid-career researchers and emeritus, adjunct and visiting scholars, who all contribute to the Centre’s dynamic environment and culture of research excellence.

[Centre staff](https://chms.cass.anu.edu.au/people) have area expertise in diverse geographic regions, including: Australia, Europe, Malaysia, China, Thailand, North and South America and the Pacific.