MUKS34 Museum Collections II.

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
2/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
RNDr. Vlastimil Tlusták, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Pavel Holman
Division of Museology – Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Pavel Holman
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those 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
  • Výběr prací z muzeologické literatury
  • Svoboda, J.F.: Zásady českého muzejnictví
  • Beneš,Josef: Muzeum a sbírky, Praha 1977
  • Vergo: The New Museology
  • Waidacher, Friedrich: Príručka všeobecnej muzeológie. Bratislava 1999
  • 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
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2009, recent)
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