MUBKO_002 History of Museums in the World I.

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Pavel Holman (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Pavel Holman
Division of Museology – Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Miriam Molnárová
Supplier department: Division of Museology – Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
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: understand of history of collecting and museums, cause of a collecting, preconditions of collecting (economical, cultural, etc.);
acquaiting students with the history of collecting in Ancient time and in Middle Ages;
identify collectors, collections, and house of collection on a collection of pictures;
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
  • Introduction, subject, methodology, peridization, sources, literature.
  • Why people collect, prerequisities of collecting - economical, cultural, political and social.
  • History of collecting and museums - development of theory. Origins of collecting and collections.
  • Colecting in Ancient time - Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, Japan.
  • Collections and collecting in Ancient Greece and Rome - thesaurus, Mouseion, private collections, pinakothecs, glyptothek, scientific collections.
  • Christianity and collecting, influence of liturgy, treasury collections in Middle Ages, reliquiary and its typology, Charles IV., Jean de Berry, St. Vitus in Prague, Sant Denis in France etc.
  • Prerequisities of collecting - 6. - 15. century.
  • Collecting in Middle Ages in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia, secular and religious collections, collecting - who and why, documentation, protection and presentation of collections, example of collectors and collections;
  • Collecting in Middle Ages in Europe, secular and religious collections, collecting - who and why, documentation, protection and presentation of collections, example of collectors and collections;
  • Renaissance and collections, secular collections.
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
lectures, reading, written test - curriculum, text in ELF, special pictures in ELF, required literature in ELF.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
General note: Předmět je vyučován v Technickém muzeu Brna, na adrese Purkyňova 105.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 4 bloky po 6 hodinách + e-learning 8 hodin.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Předmět si zapisují povinně studenti prvního ročníku muzeologie
Teacher's information
The course is supported by e-learning (https://elf.phil.muni.cz/) with relevant study materials.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2024, recent)
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