Great Courses in Heritage Studies

A curated selection of high-impact online courses, university lecture series, and specialized MOOCs in Heritage Studies. These courses offer audiovisual depth, field-specific case studies, and advanced institutional perspectives across critical heritage theory, material culture, built environments, provenance ethics, and sustainable stewardship.

Critical Heritage & Public History

• What is heritage? (The Open University / OpenLearn)
• Applied Public History: Places, People, Stories (University of London / Coursera / Catherine Clarke)

Museums, Curation, & Material Culture

• Tangible Things: Discovering History Through Artworks, Artifacts, Scientific Specimens, and the Stuff Around You (Harvard University / edX / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich)
• Arts and Heritage Management (Università Bocconi / Coursera / Andrea Rurale)
• Creating Meaningful and Inclusive Museum Practices (International Council of Museums / FutureLearn)
• Evaluation for Arts, Culture, and Heritage: Principles and Practice (University of Leeds & Centre for Cultural Value / FutureLearn)

Built Heritage, Landscapes, & Archaeological Sites

• Cultural Heritage in Transformation (RWTH Aachen University / edX)
• Cultural Heritage and the City (European University Institute / FutureLearn / Jérémie Molho & Anna Triandafyllidou)
• Recovering the Humankind's Past and Saving the Universal Heritage (Sapienza University of Rome / Coursera / Paolo Matthiae & Davide Nadali)
• Endangered Archaeology: Using Remote Sensing to Protect Cultural Heritage (Durham University / FutureLearn)

Heritage Crimes, Law, & Crisis Management

• Antiquities Trafficking and Art Crime (University of Glasgow / FutureLearn / Donna Yates & Simon Mackenzie)
• Heritage under Threat (Leiden University / Coursera / Sada Mire)
• The Ethics of Cultural Heritage (The Open University / OpenLearn)

Living Heritage, Digital Curation, & Sustainability

• Living Heritage and Sustainable Development (UNESCO & SDG Academy / edX)
• Creating a Digital Cultural Heritage Community (KU Leuven / edX / Fred Truyen & Sofie Taes)
• Tourism Management at UNESCO World Heritage Sites (vol. 3) (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne & UNESCO UNITWIN / FUN MOOC / Maria Gravari-Barbas)