The Bachelors (B.A.) are fully educated in the history of art in Europe, especially in the Czech Lands, and partly in America and Asia. They can find jobs as registrars, staff at national heritage institutes, art museums and galleries working on documentation, administration, archive work or maintaining databases of cultural heritage and art works, as well as guides in museums, monuments, cultural heritage institutions and tourist agencies. They can also work for state or city administration, for culturally oriented media, or become art dealers.
Graduates of the M.A. studies are specialized according to the orientation of their theses, and they are fully qualified to work as researchers, curators and experts for research institutes, national heritage institutes, museums of art and galleries, exhibition halls, historical museums, archives, art agencies, press, magazines, journals and publishers oriented towards contemporary art and the art of the past, as well as architecture and monuments. They can teach at secondary schools. They can also work for the media, for state or city administration in higher positions, and they can become art dealers or experts and connoisseurs for art dealers.
Ph.D. graduates are specialized in many different branches of history of art, museology and heritage preservation and they can find jobs in the same or higher positions as masters (M.A.). They are fully qualified to teach undergraduate art history students at universities.Main research areas:The main scholarly interests of the department are art in Bohemia and Moravia from the early Middle Ages to the 20th century, medieval and baroque sculpture, manuscript illumination, baroque Italian and Spanish painting and drawing, as well as 20thcentury architecture, art museology, and the preservation of monuments and art heritage.
