FF:MUKS03 Czech Museums History I. - Course Information

MUKS03 History of Czech Museums I.

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

doc. Mgr. Otakar Kirsch, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

prof. Mgr. Jiří Macháček, Ph.D.
Division of Museology – Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Ing. Jana Přepechalová
Supplier department: Division of Museology – Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts

Timetable

Thu 27. 9. 14:00–17:40 K12 nerezervovat, Thu 25. 10. 14:00–17:40 K12 nerezervovat, Thu 8. 11. 14:00–17:40 K12 nerezervovat, Thu 6. 12. 14:00–17:40 K12 nerezervovat

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

• Museology (programme FF, B-HI)

Course objectives

Upon successful completion of the course students will be able to understand important trends in development of museums and museology in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia and will be capable to put them into contemporary cultural, political and intellectual context. Students will evaluate the importance of museum institutions,their collections and individual museum workers in the history of this field. They will be capable to describe the contribution of historical Czech Lands to the evolution of museological thinking in the world.

Syllabus

• Definition of basic terms (historical museology, museum and private collections, museum, museum collection, etc.), typology of museums in the 19th and 20th century, periodization of museums in the Czech Lands, literature and sources. Pre-museum period - aristocratic, bourgeois and church private collections of the 17th and 18th centuries. Collections of educational and scientific institutions in the 18th century. Establishment of the first museum institutions in the Czech Lands - Těšín and Opava museums. Establishment, specialization, activity and outstanding personalities of the provincial museums in the first half of the 19th century. - the Francis Museum. Establishment, specialization, activity and outstanding personalities of the provincial museums in the first half of the 19th century. – the Patriotic Museum in Bohemia. Establishment and development of regional museums in the 60s-90s of the19th century. Specialized museums and their development in the second half of the 19th century. - Arts and Crafts movement. Large exhibitions of the 90s and their impact on regional museums, efforts for reorganization, museum conferences, Kliment Čermák. Land Museum at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The turn of the 19th and 20th century. and the establishment of new specialized museums. Museums in the Czech Lands during the First World War.

Literature

• Špét, Jiří. Přehled vývoje českého muzejnictví (do roku 1945). 2. vyd. Brno : Masarykova univerzita, 2004.
• Špét, Jiří: Muzea ve vývoji společnosti a národní kultury. Praha b.d.
• SKLENÁŘ, Karel. Obraz vlasti : příběh Národního muzea. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Paseka, 2001, 419 s. ISBN 8071853992. info
• NEKUDA, Vladimír. 150 let Moravského musea v Brně : stručný přehled historického vývoje. V Brně: Moravské museum, 1969. info
• SKLENÁŘ, Karel. Společnost Národního muzea v dějinách i současnosti. Praha 2007.
• 150 let Národního muzea v Praze. Praha 1968
• Památky Univerzity Karlovy. Edited by Josef Petráň. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Karolinum, 1999, 363 s. ISBN 8071848557. info
• KALUS, Jaromír, Jiří PERNES and Vladimír TKÁČ. Muzea na Moravě a ve Slezsku. Ostrava: Profil, 1988. info

Teaching methods

lecture

Assessment methods

written exam

Language of instruction

Czech

Follow-Up Courses

• MUI_39 History of Czech Museums II.

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

Teacher's information

https://elf.phil.muni.cz/elf3/course/view.php?id=4215

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