MUM_010 Special Museology

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Otakar Kirsch, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Otakar Kirsch, Ph.D.
Contact Person: Bc. Dominika Matějková
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course provides information about basic approaches and methods of scientific disciplines employed in museum institutions and elucidates their significance and role within the collection-building and presentation activity.
Learning outcomes
After completion of the course, the student will be able to: understand the specific position and activity of individual scientific disciplines in the sphere of museums; interpret the creation, classification and presentation of museum collections in relation to the needs of individual scientific disciplines, whose collections are stored in museum institutions; apply the knowledge of these disciplines in museum practice.
Syllabus
  • Explanation of the term ‘special museology’. Relationship of museology to other disciplines employed in museums, special museologies as a part of the museology system. Concepts and approaches to the problem of general and special museologies in the works by Czech and foreign museologists. Special museologies in the sphere of social science – prehistoric, ethnographic, historical, art historical, literary-scientific and other museologies. Special museologies in the sphere of natural science. Special museologies in the sphere of technical science. Current state and level of special museologies and their institutional components. Implementation of new disciplines of science in museum work.
Literature
    required literature
  • Neústupný, Jiří: Otázky dnešního muzejnictví. Praha 1950
  • A history of museology: Key authors of museological theory / B. B. Soares (eds.). Paris : International commitee for Museology – ICOFOM, 2019
    recommended literature
  • Beneš, Josef: O vztahu obecné muzeologie k muzeologiím speciálním. Časopis Národního muzea, řada historická, 1965, č. 2
  • Handbuch Museum : Geschichte, Aufgaben, Perspektiven / Markus Walz (Hg.). Stuttgart : J.B. Metzler Verlag, 2016
  • van Mensch, Peter - Meijer-Van Mensch, Leontine: New trends in museology II. Muzej novej@8se zgodovine ; ICOM Slovenia, 2015.
  • Úvod do studia muzeologie :určeno pro posluchače muzeologie, International Summer School of Museology - ISSOM a zájemce o toto studium. Edited by Zbyněk Stránský. 2. aktualiz. a podstatně ro. Brno: Masarykova univerzita pro Letní školu muzeologie UNESCO,
  • Musil, Rudolf: Die Aufgaben der speziellen Museologien vom Standpunkt der Naturwissenschaften. Muzeologické sešity, Suplementum I. Brno 1971
  • KIRSCH, Otakar: Formování a vývoj technické muzeologie v českých zemích v letech 1948-1989. Část I. – dobové koncepce, angažmá v oblasti historické muzeologie, výzkumy publika. Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo 5, 2017, č. 1, s. 123–135.
  • Kováč, M. A.: Úvod do literárnej muzeológie. Martin 1982
Teaching methods
lectures, discussions, tutorials
Assessment methods
Successful completion of the course is conditioned by an active participation in seminars, elaboration of a seminar thesis and completion of a written exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2023.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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