Career Prospects Students who major in art history often pursue a variety of careers after graduation. Many students seek advanced degrees in art history in preparation for a teaching position either at the secondary school or college levels.
Art museums offer a wide range of employment opportunities for art history graduates.
Curatorial positions, at the top of the museum staff hierarchy, tend to be research oriented and typically require a Ph.D. in art history. Today's museums are large complex institutions, however, comprised of many departments demanding qualified employees with an art history background, though not necessarily a doctorate, for various positions. Museums have departments of education, which work with the public preparing tours, lectures, seminars, teacher information packets for public schools, and so forth. Most museums have departments of exhibition installation, while some have conservation and restoration departments. All have museum stores, many of which produce and market museum reproductions.