MUB_003 History of Museums in the World II.

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Pavel Holman (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Pavel Holman
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
MUB_002 World History of Museums I.
MUB_002 History of Museums in the World I.
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:
making students aware of history of collecting and museums;
making students aware of changing of private cabinets to public museums;
making students aware of contemporary museums by their history
making students aware of comtemporary private collecting, differences between private collections and public museums.
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
  • Collectiong in renaissance and barocque time, situation in society, natural sciences and collections, collections an resources of natural sciences, theoretical books about cabinets,guides.
  • Famous collectors and theirs collections - Hapsburgs, Medicis, Wettins, Wittelsbachs, John Tradescant, Olaf Worm, Athanasius Kircher, Danish kings etc.;
  • Enlightement and collecting, first museum - Basel, Oxford;
  • 18th century - from caninets to public museums, prerequisities in society, effect of the Enlightenment;
  • French revolution and museums;
  • Political, social and economical situation in society and birth of museums. Special museums, iínfluence of nationalism;
  • Museum's theory, leading representatives;
  • Museums in 20th sentury;
  • Museums in the beginning of new millenium;
  • Private collecting in 19th and 20th century.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Murray, David: Museums. Their History and Their Use. 1. vyd., Glasgow, James MacLehose and Sons 1904, s. 340
  • Baumstark, Reinhold (her.): Thurn und Taxis Museum Regensburg. Höfische Kunst und Kultur. 1. vyd. München, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum - Klinkhardt & Biermann 1998
  • Major, Johann Daniel: Unvorgreffliches Bedenken von Kunst- und Naturalienkammer. 1. vyd., Kiel 1674
  • Neickelius, Caspar Friedrich: Museographia. 1. vyd. Leipzig 1727
  • Pearce, Susan - Flanders, Rosemary - Hall, Mark - Morton, Fiona: The Collector's Voices. 3rd Vol. Imperial Voices. 1.vyd. Aldershot - Burlington - Singapore - Sydney, Ashgate 2000
  • Luchinat, Cristina Acidini - Scalini, Mario (her.): Die Pracht der Medici. Florenz und Europa. 1. vyd. Wien, KHM, 1999
  • Flower, William Henry: Essays on Museums. (reprint) London, Routledge/Thoemmes Press 2001
  • Impey, Oliver - MacGregor, Arthur: The Origins of Museums. The Cabinet of Curiosities in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth- Century Europe. 2. vyd. York, House of Stratus 2001
  • Wittlin, Alma S.: Museums. In Search of a Usable Future. 1. vyd., Cambridge (USA) - London (UK), The MITPress, 1970, s. 279
  • McClellan, Anrew: Inventing the Louvre. Berkely - Los Angeles - London, University of California Press 1999
  • Pearce, Susan - Martin, Paul: The collector's Voices. 4th Vol. Contemporary Voices. 1. vyd. Aldershot - Burlington - Singapore - Sydney, Ashgate 2000
  • Crane, Susan A. (ed.): Museums and Memory. 1. vyd. Stanfor, Stanford University Press 2000
  • Greenwood, Thomas: Museums and Galleries. (reprint) London, Routledge/Thoemmes Press 2001
  • Holst, Niels van: Creators, collectors and connoisseurs. 1. vyd., London 1967
  • Edwards, Edward: Lives of the Founders of the Britisch Museum. (reprint) London, Routledge/Thoemmes Press 2001
  • Haupt, Herbert: Das Kunsthistorisches Museum. Die Geschichte des Hauses am Ring. Wien, Christian Brandstätter Verlag 1991
  • Elsner, John - Cardinal, Roger: The Cultures of Collecting. 1. vyd. London. Reaktion Books 1994
  • Pearce, Susan - Arnold, Kenneth: The Collector's Voice. 2. vol. Early Voices. Aldershot - Burlington - Singapore - Sydney, Ashgate 2000
  • ZIMMER, Jürgen. Die Schatz- und Kunstkammer Kaiser Rudolf II. in Prag : Inventare und Listen im Kontexten weiterer Quellen von 1576 bis 1860. Prague: Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, v.v.i., 2021, 239 stran. ISBN 9788088283645. info
  • Ferdinand II. : arcivévoda Ferdinand II. Habsburský : renesanční vladař a mecenáš : mezi Prahou a Innsbruckem : výstava Národní galerie v Praze a Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien ve spolupráci s Ústavem dějin umění Akademie věd České repub. Edited by Blanka Kubíková - Jaroslava Hausenblasová - Sylva Dobalová. V Praze: Národní galerie, 2017, 55 stran. ISBN 9788070356548. info
  • Die grosse Kunstkammer : bürgerliche Sammler und Sammlungen in Basel. Edited by Sabine Soll-Tauchert - Raphael Beuing. Basel: Christoph Merian, 2011, 380 s. ISBN 9783856165390. info
  • BREDEKAMP, Horst. Antikensehnsucht und Maschinenglauben : die Geschichte der Kunstkammer und die Zukunft der Kunstgeschichte. 3. Aufl. Berlin: Klaus Wagenbach, 2007, 126 s. ISBN 9783803123619. info
  • BREDEKAMP, Horst. Bilder bewegen : von der Kunstkammer zum Endspiel : Aufsätze und Reden. Edited by Jörg Probst. Deutsche Erstausg. Berlin: Klaus Wagenbach, 2007, 255 s. ISBN 9783803125576. info
  • MACGREGOR, Arthur. Curiosity and enlightenment : collectors and collections from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, x, 386. ISBN 9780300124934. info
  • Die Entdeckung der Natur : Naturalien in den Kunstkammern des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts : eine Ausstellung des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien : Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck, 22. Juni - 31. Oktober 2006 : Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, 12. Februar - 20. Mai 2. Edited by Alfred Auer - Wilfried Seipel. Wien: Kunsthistorisches Museum, 2006, 288 s. ISBN 3854971044. info
  • GREGOROVÁ, Růžena. Příběhy zkamenělin : o ropuším kameni, hadím vejci a tajemném jednorožci. Vyd. 1. Brno: Moravské zemské muzeum, 2006, 125 s. ISBN 8070283009. info
  • Sammeln als Institution : von der fürstlichen Wunderkammer zum Mäzenatentum des Staates. Edited by Christoph Oliver Mayer - Manuela Vergoossen - Barbara Marx - Karl-Sieg. München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2006, xxxi, 398. ISBN 9783422066151. info
  • Palast des Wissens : die Kunst- und Wunderkammer Zar Peters des Großen. Edited by Brigitte Buberl - Michael Dückershoff. München: Hirmer Verlag, 2003, 285 s. ISBN 3777410861. info
  • MAURIÈS, Patrick. Cabinets of curiosities. 1. ed. London: Thames & Hudson, 2002, 256 s. ISBN 0500510911. info
  • Die Kunst des Steinschnitts : Prunkgefäße, Kameen und Commessi aus der Kunstkammer : eine Ausstellung des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien : Kunsthistorisches Museum, 17. Dezember 2002 bis 27. April 2003. Edited by Wilfried Seipel. Wien: Kunsthistorisches Museum, 2002, 365 s. ISBN 3854970641. info
  • ŠIMON, Patrik. Jindřich Waldes, sběratel umění. Vyd. 1. Praha: Patrik Šimon - Eminent, 2001, 227 s. ISBN 809025683X. info
  • WALDES, Jindřich. Kupka - Waldes : malíř a jeho sběratel : dílo Františka Kupky ve sbírce Jindřicha Waldesa : [Malá galerie Rudolfinum, Praha 7.12.1999-9.1.2000]. Edited by František Kupka. 1. vyd. Praha: Antikvariát Meissner, 1999, 445 s. ISBN 8023846167. info
  • 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
  • Vojtěch Baron Lanna :collector, patron and entrepreneur : June 21 - September 15, 1996, exhibition hall of the Museum of Decorative arts in Prague. Edited by Hana Aulická - Nina Bažantová - Helena Brožková - Olga Drahotová. V Praze: Uměleckoprůmyslové muzeum, 1996, 151, lxxxv. ISBN 8071010340. 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
  • Villa Lanna - Antike und Prag 1872. Edited by Patricia H. Svoboda - Jiří Šubrt. Praha: KLP, 1994, 158 s. ISBN 8090150896. 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
  • MACGREGOR, Arthur. Ark to Ashmolean : the story of the Tradescants, Ashmole and the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1983, 24 s. ISBN 0907849024. info
  • Die Kunstkammer. Edited by Elisabeth Scheicher. Innsbruck: Kunsthistorisches Museum, 1977, 212 s. info
  • SCHLOSSER, Julius von. Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Spätrenaissance : ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Sammelwesens. Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1908, 146 s. info
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
Lecture, the course will be finished by an oral exam. Knowledge of the subject matter from the autumn and spring semester of the book from the given literature and teaching materials placed subjects in ELF is required for the exam. Ability to practical application of acquired knowledge. Knowledge of general historical development and its influence on collecting and museums.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
Teacher's information
The course is supported by e-learning with relevant study materials.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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