This degree program is unique because it not only teaches basic art-historical skills. The university's own art collections and cooperating institutions in the region also integrate practical and professional aspects of curatorial, museum, and monument preservation work into the course.

This course offers a specialization in the following areas:
  • Monument knowledge   
  • Method awareness  
  • Problems of the epochs, their limits, and border crossings   
  • Genres, media, functions, techniques, contexts, forms, and styles   
  • Conditions of origin, functional, social, and cultural-historical contexts as well as the intentions of the artifacts  
  • Professional practice