Mestre em Artes

A master's degree from the Institute is an investment in your future in the arts. It is an advanced degree that prepares students to go on to a Ph.D. or to careers in art museums, galleries, auction houses, archaeological sites, and in the wider art world.

The program is two years of full-time study or three years of part-time study for those with professional obligations.

The Institute is a thriving center of advanced research and graduate teaching in art history, archaeology, and art conservation. A site of knowledge production since its founding in 1932, the Institute has also produced many of the world’s leading art historians, museum directors, curators, and conservators. Learn more about what's happening at the Institute in the Annual.

Institute students join a community of excellence and form a community of excellence. Institute students share in the production of cutting edge research in art history, archaeology, and conservation. Whatever their professional goals, Institute students are prepared to work with historical breadth and depth, with conceptual and theoretical sophistication, and with a command of the techniques of material, formal, and stylistic analysis.