Certification programmes

The programmes alternate lectures, workshops, placements and projects. Intakes of 24 people encourage exchange. Teaching is provided by practitioners and academics, with individual follow-up by a tutor.

Assessment rests on three tests: written exam, case study and oral, supplemented for the diploma by a dissertation.

The qualifications are recognised by Member States as a professional qualification. Fourteen partner universities grant transferable credits. The Academy is in discussion with several professional organisations for recognition of the qualification in their access rules.

Each qualification is verifiable online by means of a number and a QR code.

Holders work in auction houses, galleries, museums, administrations, consultancies, insurance companies and international organisations. Eighty-eight per cent have a job within six months. Seventy-two per cent report having obtained a promotion or new responsibility within three years.

The Academy offers a career guidance service and relays job offers.

The programmes are paid (€1,900 to €6,800) but accessible: scholarships covering 30 to 100% of fees, instalment payment, agreements with employers, preferential rates for public officials of developing States. Scholarship applications are filed at the same time as the application.

A funding assistance service advises candidates.

The programmes are reviewed every year by the teaching committee, on the basis of feedback from trainees, employers and developments in the profession. A new certificate on digital technology and digital assets linked to art is in preparation.

Holders can follow refresher modules to stay up to date.

The Academy's reception service answers practical questions Monday to Friday, in French, English and Spanish, and can direct each visitor to the programme, scholarship or free resource that fits their situation. A guidance counsellor also offers a thirty-minute individual meeting, by appointment, to build a realistic training pathway.

Trainees' feedback is valuable: each session gives rise to a questionnaire, and the most useful suggestions are examined each quarter by the teaching committee. Do not hesitate to write to report a difficulty, propose a subject or tell us what the training has changed in your practice.