Cooperstown Graduate Program

Website: http://cgpmuseumstudies.org/

The Cooperstown Campus: Students have full access to the resources and facilities of the College, but attend classes in Cooperstown, a village 25 miles northeast of Oneonta. Best known as the setting for some of James Fenimore Cooper’s novels and for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Cooperstown is also the home of the New York State Historical Association, The Farmers’ Museum, and Fenimore Art Museum. The Farmers’ Museum interprets agriculture, crafts, and domestic life in upstate New York, ca. 1845. Fenimore Art Museum contains genre and landscape paintings, decorative arts, textiles, Native American art, and one of the nation’s leading collections of American folk art.

Program history: The Cooperstown Graduate Program (CGP) was established in 1964 in a unique public/private partnership between SUNY Oneonta and NYSHA. Many of its more than 950 alumni have attained prominence in museums and related fields as directors, educators, curators, or programming specialists.

Program Mission: The Cooperstown Graduate Program trains creative, entrepreneurial museum leaders committed to programs for the public good.

Premises: Museums should be essential community institutions dedicated to community service. CGP encourages students to use objects and ideas as catalysts for social discourse. CGP is grounded in the study of science, history, and culture. Graduates are scholars dedicated to developing strong institutions that are central to their communities.

CGP does not normally accept part-time or non-degree students.

Programs

Master of Arts