MUKS29 Museum Collections Practice

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2016
Extent and Intensity
2/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Irena Loskotová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. Mgr. Jiří Macháček, Ph.D.
Division of Museology – Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Margita Filipová
Supplier department: Division of Museology – Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Prerequisites (in Czech)
MUKS16 Collecting in Museums
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
At the end of the course students should be able to:
understand of museum collections and its parts
prepare collecting plan of museum
clasification of potencial museum collection's objects
defend a new collecting plan
Syllabus
  • History of collection and museums and collecting; defferent types of collections in the time.
  • Cultural heritage, collecting, objects and cultural value; relation to collections in various types of museums; comparison with foreign countries.
  • Museum collections and national cultural heritage,
  • Museum object its definitions,characteristics; basic types of museum object.
  • Museum object and its esthetic, economic, technological, historical and information capacity. Museum object as responsible of informations.
  • Methods of identification of potential museum objects, selection. Musealia, museality, authenticity. Form of acquiring of museums objects.
  • Museum collection, collection as a informational and documentational system.
  • Museum object as a part of collection of various types of museums and various scientific disciplines. Structure of museum collections, intention to museum documentation.
  • Museum collections and natural sciences; non-living nature (geology, mineralogy, paleontology), living nature (botyny, zoology), anthropology. Documentation, storages, protection.
  • Documentation of collections - history, principles, cataloguing, systems.
  • Computers and museum documentation
  • Problems of collectiong in contemporary world.
  • Practice
Literature
  • Beneš,Josef: Muzeum a sbírky, Praha 1977
  • Waidacher, Friedrich: Príručka všeobecnej muzeológie. Bratislava 1999
  • Výběr prací z muzeologické literatury
  • Vergo: The New Museology
  • Svoboda, J.F.: Zásady českého muzejnictví
  • STRÁNSKÝ, Zbyněk. Úvod do studia muzeologie : určeno pro posluchače International Summer School of Museology - ISSOM. Vyd. 1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1995, 114 s. ISBN 8021007036. info
Teaching methods
lectures, group projects
Assessment methods
lectures, individual project - collection plan, terminology, reading
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2003, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2021.
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