Art History

About Art History

Art History is a research-intensive department with lecturers who are engaging in innovative research. The flexible structure of our degrees allows you to explore subjects outside your specialist area, including courses in other disciplines.

You will gain extensive knowledge of art history from the Middle Ages to the present day, covering a range of media and techniques. Across all four years, you will engage with original artworks on campus, in museums and galleries, and the field.

Why Art History at Aberdeen?

• The north-east of Scotland has a distinguished architectural heritage dating back to the Middle Ages onwards and the Aberdeen Art Gallery collections of French and British art, including one of the best collections of Victorian painting outside London
• Our University Collections is home to illuminated manuscripts including the Aberdeen Bestiary, the MacBean Collection of Jacobite prints, over 400 oil paintings, and the George Washington Wilson archive of Victorian glass plate negatives