The contemporary museum is based on a three legged stoolthat is made up of the collection, management and staff, and visitors. The new understanding of contemporary museums that begun after the First World War opened new perspectives in the fi eld of museum. From 1917 to 1950, the necessity of museum learning and the idea of museums becoming research centers similar to universities started to become accepted. In 1950’s developments in educational sciences, emphasizing the necessity of students being able to generate knowledge through research increased the importance of museums, laboratories and libraries. In this context, it is seen that the museums started to use their collections in a manner that will entertain and educate the society. After 1965, cultural centers started to be established in museums and multicultural education, museum education and cultural lectures were included in teaching programs. Besides the transfer of academic knowledge about objects, the characteristics of different parts of the society, human development, communication theories, group dynamism, inter-culturalism have gained importance. From the object-based knowledge transfer, the object has been changed from the contextual perspective to the experience creation approach. During the 1990s researchers, experts, conservators, restorers, architects, interior architects, educators-pedagogues, text writers, public relations experts were started to be included in museum staff. The function of the museums also expanded from collection, documentation (archival), protection (maintenance) and exhibition to education. In 2000, museum education was included in teaching programs in Turkey. MUSEUM, and many degree program sprimarily on visual arts included museum education in their programs. Undergraduate and post-graduate programs were opened in the fi eld of museology in universities. Thesis and projects have been made in the fi eld of museum, museology and museum education. According to 2017 data, 284 graduate, 18 doctorate and 6 artistic profi ciency theses were found in the fi eld of museology in YÖK (Turkish Higher Education Institute) thesis screeningcenter (05.02.2017).