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.
The Art of Managing the Arts.
Leveraging Italy’s 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, with international vocation profiles and a passion for the arts.
MAMA aims to support artistic innovation and cultural development worldwide, by strengthening the leadership and management skills required for arts organizations to thrive, and for your career to flourish in a wide range of organizations operating in the arts sector.
Discover MAMA's specific qualifying goals.
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 Europe’s leading schools of management
- You want to get in touch with top Italian and international arts organizations and their leaders
Art is an ally not an enemy
Alumni Stories: Trevor Pichanick
Performance footage courtesy and copyright of the Komische Oper Berlin.
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 with lectures, company visits, research projects, and internships for students. The strong relationship between MAMA and its partners started with ten founding partners, and the network has increased month after month with new connections and agreements.
Italian Excellence
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Inspired by Italy’s 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. |
Why choose us?
Highlights
Scholarships and Tuition Waivers
The MAMA Class
Inside My MAMA
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“Why 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.”
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."
Piergiacomo Mion Dalle Carbonare
Coordinator
What they say about MAMA
Growing up as a dancer, the difficulties that institutions faced to maintain artistic integrity while being accessible to the public led me to a career in the arts; not as an artist, but as a someone that knows how to properly manage an organization. Wanting this career path led me to find the MAMA program; an immersive experience that gave me the tools to understand the day-to-day management of a cultural institution: financially, organizationally, and communicationally.
The issues which I once faced found solutions during the program, while others developed when discussing real life cases with professors and in meetings with numerous Italian cultural institutions.
Sharing this experience with a group of diverse people who enriched my background and managerial skills, definitely made MAMA a well-rounded program designed to make us innovate within the cultural sector.
Carolina Gonzalez
- Costa Rican
MAMA 2018
Commercial Assistant - Balich Worldwide Shows
Commercial Assistant - Balich Worldwide Shows
MAMA not only sets you up with an exceptional start working in the Arts Sector, but it also provides you with an invaluable dive into Italian culture and enables you to meet incredible people from all around the world.
Paula Trommel
MAMA 2020
Director, Corinth Consulting
Director, Corinth Consulting
Meet MAMA
Upcoming face-to-face meetings
24
Jan 2025
09:00
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20:00
| LOCAL TIME
Orientation Meetings - Mexico City
Language
ENGLISH
Upcoming online sessions
Next Steps
30 May 2025
Application Deadline
24 Sept 2025
Program Start
Dec 2026
Program End
News & Social
20 November 2024
Shaping the Future Leaders of Arts Management: The MAMA Study Tour in Puglia.
Master in Arts Management and Administration