MUKS17 Museum documentation

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Otakar Kirsch, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Otakar Kirsch, Ph.D.
Division of Museology – Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Otakar Kirsch, Ph.D.
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
In the course, students acquaint with theoretical definitition of general terms of documentation, information, communication and with their application to museum practice. There is paid attention to the differences and specifics between museum dokumentation and others documentations (especially archives, libraries). It also fucuses on up-to-date subjects from museology ( documentation of contemporaneousness). The aim of the course is acquaintance with specific approach to the museum phenomenon customary for many Czech and foreign museologists. This approach is based on comprehension of museum activities as action bringing informations about society and nature conditions.
Syllabus
  • Museum documentation as term and its content; museum documentation in context with other basic functions of museums.
  • Terminology, methodology, literature.
  • Historical development of museum documentation: origin of collection's documentation in ancient world; documentation in Middle Ages; Changes in conception and contents of museum documentation in development of museums.
  • Museum documentation in 20.th century. Basic terms (information, document, museum object), comparison of terms, different conception and definitions.
  • Museum documentation in Czech Republic and abroad.
  • Museum documentation and specific problems in different scientific disciplines.
  • a) humanities and social sciences: prehistory, history, ethnography, literature, music, theatre, arts, history of science and technology.
  • b) natural sciences (systematic and ecologicalconception): geology, zoology, botany, anthropology.
  • Documentation - primary, secondary, accompaniyng.
  • Collection documentation; documentation and its characterisation; chronological documentation, cataloguing.
  • Systems and methods of collection's documentation; problems of description and clasification.
  • Work with documentation's resources and aids (documentary cards, computers and its use)
  • Documentory records.
Literature
  • Beneš, Josef: Muzeum a sbírky. Praha 1977
  • Beneš, Josef: Základy muzeologie, Opava 1997
  • Gluziňski, Wojciech: U podstaw muzeologii. Warszawa 1980
  • K aktuálním otázkám muzejní dokumentace a prezentace vědeckotechnického vývoje. Brno
  • Muzeum a dokumentace přírodního prostředí a způsobu života. Opava
  • 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
  • Výběr odborných prací z muzeologické literatury
  • Maroević, Ivo. Introduction to Museology - the European Approach. Munich 1998.
Assessment methods
Lecture, exam - knowledge of basic themes
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2002, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014.
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