Alejandra Murillo Sosa, MA Arts and Heritage
Alejandra is from Mexico and has a bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the university of Mexico-City.
“After my bachelor’s, I volunteered for six months in the European Art Museum in Mexico-City. I then started to work for an architect firm. After half a year, I got a call from the museum and I was hired as an assistant to the exhibit designer. When the exhibit designer left, I got promoted, even though I was only 24 at the time. I stayed for another four years, until I felt I had learned all I could. After another short interval at an architect firm I was hired as an exhibit designer by the National Museum for Arts in Mexico.
I started to research master’s programmes, because I felt I missed in-depth knowledge on how art and culture function, about management and policies and relationships between museums and society. Having travelled to the Netherlands many times, I was impressed by the quality of life and level of happiness here. I chose this 1-year programme because of the focus on policies and politics and the Problem-Based Learning system at Maastricht University. Since I had to do a pre-master’s before starting my master’s, I was already familiar with this education system.
My dream is to continue studying and apply for a PhD during which I want to conduct research in policies in arts and culture as a tool to be more inclusive. There is a lot of potential for arts institutions to be more inclusive. I would also like to teach in an environment like I’m experiencing now in Maastricht, and encourage people to be more open.”
Alejandra Murillo Sosa
October 2020
Alejandra was Student ambassador during academic year 2020-2021
Watch her ambassador video here
I would like arts institutions to be more inclusive. It’s my dream to contribute to that, hopefully through research in a PhD position.