FF:MUI_14 Collecting in Museums - Course Information

MUI_14 Collecting and Collection work of Museums

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2006

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

Guaranteed by

Timetable

Thu 10:00–11:35 C42

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

Syllabus

Basic terms: collector, collecting, museum object, museum collection, collecting in museums.
Private collecting and museum collecting
Subject of collecting.
Collecting - process, methods, view-point.
Collecting and its problems in connection with condition of museum collections.
Collections and its scientific treatment.
Museum collections and its release.
Condition of museum collection in present time and collecting in future.

Literature

Šášky, Ladislav: Funkcie zbierkového predmetu. Múzeum 1990, č. 4
Beneš, Josef: Muzeum a sbírky. Praha 1977
STRÁNSKÝ, Zbyněk. Archeologie a muzeologie. Vydání první. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 2005, 315 stran. ISBN 8021038616. info
BELK, Russell W. Collecting in a consumer society. London: Routledge, 1995, v, 198 s. ISBN 0-415-10534-X. info
Interpreting objects and collections. Edited by Susan M. Pearce. London: Routledge, 1994, xii, 343. ISBN 0415112893. info

Assessment methods (in Czech)

Přednáška, zkouška - zvládnutí přednesené látky, vlastní či zprostředkované poznatky z oblasti muzejní dokumentace a tvorby muzejních sbírek

Language of instruction

Czech

Follow-Up Courses

Further Comments

The course is taught once in two years.