MUBKO_013 Practice in Museum Conservation

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 7 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Karel Rapouch (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Karel Rapouch
Museology – Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Miriam Molnárová
Supplier department: Museology – Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites
MUBKO_012 Museum Conservation Basics
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 14 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/14, only registered: 0/14
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Introduction to the process of museological conservation of collection items involving the entry documentation, survey of the material, preventive and remedial conservation including restoration and copy-making. The course is conducted mainly in the form of demonstration examples and discussions to optimal treatment of selected collection items made of anorganic and organic materials. The intention is to support the proper decision-making process in determining the complex value of an item, to determine the appropriate conservation and restoration plan and the intervention rate. The processes are applied by the students on a given concrete item to which they will independently prepare the conservation-restoration documentation.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, a student will be able to:
- characterize process of museum conservation of collection items and specifics of several materials;
- decision-making process in determining the complex value of an item
Syllabus
  • Principles of safety and hygiene of work at a conservation laboratory.
  • Preventive conservation, tool for optimization of microclimate conditions in museum environment - methods of measurement and regulation of relative humidity, temperature, lighting and cleanliness of the environment (chemical and biological factors).
  • Conservation of metal items - alloys of iron, copper and silver (survey, cleaning, stabilization, and surface treatment. Treatment of a concrete metal item according to the assignment and processing of conservation-restauration documentation.
  • Conservation of ceramics and glass - principles of survey, cleaning, glueing and filling in the missing parts, surface adjustments and retouching. Practical demonstration.
  • Conservation of wood - treatment of constructional points in historic objects and mobile collection items (survey, remediation, fixation, cleaning, impregnation, surface treatment). Demonstration.
  • Conservation of textiles, paper, and buff - identification processes of types of textile fibers, remediation, cleaning, impregnation, fixation and adjustments. Practical demonstration.
  • Copy-making for exhibition and education means - galvanoplastic copy, plaster cast. Practical demonstration.
Teaching methods
laboratory exercises, demonstration and practical demonstration
Assessment methods
colloquium - presentation on processed conservation-restauration documentation and discussion of the results; attendance at the laboratory exercises
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 0/0/0 4 bloky po 6 hodinách + e-learning 8 hodin.
Teacher's information
An interactive syllabus containing basic information about the course has been created. The knowledge acquired in the course will be verified during the practical part of the lectures.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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