graduate school for art history?

Graduate School
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<p>Hi Forks,</p>

<p>After working as an engineer for 10 years, I　find out ｗｈａｔ　Ｉ am doing now is not my passion. My passion is visual arts. I am seriously considering to go back to school for a degree and change career after. My first option is art history. I’d be happy to work in museums or galleries. But I want to know how hard it will be for me to apply for graduate school in art history because I don’t have any background in this area. I was good at researching and academics, but it is hard to find people in art domain to write recommendation for me. What should I do to make this easier? Volunteer in museums will help? Please advise. Thanks.</p>

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<p>Volunteering in museums will be helpful, but the most important thing is that you will need to have taken some art history classes, preferably with a research project (thesis, seminar paper) as well as AT LEAST one of the following foreign languages: German, French, and/or Italian.</p>

<p>Go to the web sites of various graduate art history departments and read their admissions requirements. They are not always very specific, but I do recall several which indicated just how much undergraduate coursework in art history was required for admittance.</p>