MUB_002 History of Museums in the World I.

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2020
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Otakar Kirsch, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Pavel Holman (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Otakar Kirsch, Ph.D.
Division of Museology – Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Lucia Miškolciová
Supplier department: Division of Museology – Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 8. 10. 9:00–12:40 TMB, Thu 29. 10. 9:00–12:40 TMB, Thu 19. 11. 9:00–12:40 TMB, Thu 10. 12. 9:00–12:40 TMB
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The main objectives of the course are the following: understand of history of collecting and museums, cause of a collecting, preconditions of collecting (economical, cultural, etc.);
acquaiting students with the history of collecting in Ancient time and in Middle Ages;
identify collectors, collections, and house of collection on a collection of pictures;
Learning outcomes
- identify a descibe significant attribute of main period of colleting history;
- compare difference between approaches to collecting in particular periods;
- know significants collections and collectors in particular periods;
- analyse sources from ancient times and middle ages and current piece of knowludge about collecting;
Syllabus
  • Introduction, subject, methodology, peridization, sources, literature.
  • Why people collect, prerequisities of collecting - economical, cultural, political and social.
  • History of collecting and museums - development of theory. Origins of collecting and collections.
  • Colecting in Ancient time - Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, Japan.
  • Collections and collecting in Ancient Greece and Rome - thesaurus, Mouseion, private collections, pinakothecs, glyptothek, scientific collections.
  • Christianity and collecting, influence of liturgy, treasury collections in Middle Ages, reliquiary and its typology, Charles IV., Jean de Berry, St. Vitus in Prague, Sant Denis in France etc.
  • Prerequisities of collecting - 6. - 15. century.
  • Renaissance and collections, secular collections.
Literature
  • Alexander, Edward P.: Museum in Motion. An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums. New York - Oxfor, Altamira Press 1996
  • Pearce, Susan - Bounia, Alexandra: The Collector's Voice. Vol. 1 Ancient Voices. 1. vyd. Aldershot - Burlington - Singapore - Sydney, Ashgate 2000
  • Sběratelství. 1. vyd. Praha 1983
  • Wittlin, Alma S.:The museum: Its history and its task in education. London 1949
  • Wittlin, Alma S.: Museums. In Search of a Usable Future. 1. vyd., Cambridge (USA) - London(UK), The MIT Press 1970, s. 279
  • Bazin, Germain: The Museum Age, 1.vyd., Brussels, 1967
  • Holst, Niels van: Creators, Collectors and Connoisseurs. London 1967
  • Murray, David: Museums: Their History and Their Use. reprint. London, Routledge/Thoemmes Press 2001
  • Koščevic, Želimir: Muzej u prošlosti i sadašnjosti. Zagreb 1977
  • BOUNIA, ALexandra. The nature of calssical collecting. Aldershot - Burlington : Ashgate 2004
  • Schlosser, Julius von: Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Spätrenaissance. 1. vyd., Leipzig, Verlag von Klinkhardt und Biermann 1908, s. 146
  • Kneidl, Pravoslav: Počátky sběratelství a Strahovský kabinet kuriozit. 1. vyd. Praha Památník národního písemnictví 1989
  • Zygulski, Zdzislaw: Muzea na swiecie. Warszawa 1982
  • Rudolf II. a Praha : císařský dvůr a rezidenční město jako kulturní a duchovní centrum střední Evropy. Edited by Eliška Fučíková. Praha: Správa Pražského hradu, 1997, 386 s. : i. ISBN 80-902051-6-X. info
  • BELK, Russell W. Collecting in a consumer society. London: Routledge, 1995, v, 198 s. ISBN 0-415-10534-X. info
  • BENNETT, Tony. The birth of the museum : history, theory, politics. 1st publ. London: Routledge, 1995, x, 278 s. ISBN 0-415-05387-0. info
  • ASSMANN, Jan Nepomuk. Artis pictoriae amatores :[Baroko ve střední Evropě : květen 1992-květen 1993 : Národní galerie v Praze, Jízdárna Pražského hradu, 13.5.-12.9.1993. Edited by Lubomír Slavíček. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Národní galerie, 1993, 429 s. ISBN 80-7035-052-0. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
lectures, reading, written test with special pictures
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Předmět si zapisují povinně studenti prvního ročníku muzeologie
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2019, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
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