Juan Ignacio Vidarte
Director General, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
You will follow a focused training path, providing you with a specifically tailored managerial approach for the arts and the cultural industry.
Leveraging Italyās excellence in cultural heritage and artistic production, the Specialized Master in Arts Management and Administration (MAMA) is a full-time 1-year program in English, offering 70 ECTS/CFU credits, designed for talented students from all over the world,Ā with international vocation profilesĀ and a passion for the arts.
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MAMA aims to support artistic innovation and cultural development worldwide, byĀ strengthening the leadership and management skills required for arts organizations to thrive, and for your career to flourishĀ in a wide range of organizations operating in the arts sector.
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Who is it for?
MAMA is the Master for you if:
- You are passionate about arts and culture and are looking for a well-rounded managerial preparation, with a specialized focus on the art world and on the cultural industries
- You want a career as a professional, manager, consultant, or entrepreneur in artistic and cultural fields
- You want to improve your managerial expertise in one of Europeās leading schools of management
- You want to get in touch with top Italian and international arts organizations and their leaders
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Art is an ally not an enemy
Alumni Stories: Trevor Pichanick
Performance footage courtesy and copyright of the Komische Oper Berlin.
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MAMA Partnerships
Marco Balich
President, Balich Worldwide Shows
Muriel Mayette-Holtz
Past Director, French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici
Many institutions in the fields of Heritage and Performing Arts are participating in the MAMA program withĀ lectures, company visits, research projects, and internshipsĀ for students. The strong relationship between MAMA and its partners started withĀ ten founding partners,Ā and the network has increased month after month withĀ new connections and agreements.
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Italian Excellence
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Inspired by Italyās cultural heritage, SDA Bocconi School of Management shows its expertise in three of the highlights of Italian Excellence, namely the arts, fashion and design and food and beverage. |
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Why choose us?
Highlights
Scholarships and Tuition Waivers
The MAMA Class
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Inside My MAMA
SDA Bocconi programs offer a unique and personalized learning experience. Enter the world of MAMA to discover its unique contents.
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āWhy MAMA? Because you love arts and you think we need managers to innovate and develop them. Because it is time to get rid of the eternal dualism between curatorship and management, we need competent managers with passion and interest for the artistic field they work in, respecting roles and differences, and contributing to the development of the field.ā
Andrea Rurale
Director
"Arts and culture are critical for the development of individuals and communities. This is why the MAMA program challenges students to find innovative and effective solutions to complex problems in the arts sector. Plus, it all happens in a multicultural and stimulating environment under the guidance of skilled professors and stimulating classmates."
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Piergiacomo Mion Dalle Carbonare
MAMA Coordinator
What they say about MAMA
Field trips are always stimulating, where we have the opportunity to meet and talk with great names of the Italian cultural scene. During the conversation with Paolo Baratta, President of Biennale di Venezia, it was interesting to understand his vision of artās social function and the role of the Venice Biennale in the contemporary art scene. Baratta pointed out that visitors should be treated as people and not customers. The exhibitions are about exchanges between the art and the visitor, and their unique experience, where every visitor has the chance to be motivated and inspired by them. Learning from different points of view, perspectives and institutions makes the MAMA at SDA Bocconi a more diverse and dynamic program. Going beyond school walls give us practical skills, expanding the knowledge we learn in the classroom.
Mariana Vieira Marcondes
- Brazilian
MAMA Student
Nowadays artistic and cultural institutions are facing many challenges and are constantly asked to adapt or reinvent themselves by implementing innovative and sustainable strategies to ensure their mission of promotion and conservation of heritage.
If you ever wonder what the cultural institutions of the future will be and you want to be a part of these changes, then the MAMA program is made for you.
More than a simple master, the MAMA is a deep immersion in cultural and artistic industries through a tailored program of courses given by top level professors and prominent cultural managers bringing their hands-on experiences.
MAMA will not only offer you the chance to learn managerial culture and expertise that can be applied in cultural institutions, but also give you the opportunity to put them into practice through an internship in one of the outstanding institutional partners of MAMA.
Camille Coschieri
- French
MAMA 2017
Meet MAMA
Upcoming face-to-face meetings
Next Steps
31st May 2023
Deadline application
Sept 2023
Program Start
Dec 2024
Program End
News & Social
17 March 2023
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