MUI_14 Collecting and Collecting in Museums

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2010
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Jan Dolák, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Jan Dolák, Ph.D.
Division of Museology – Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Pavel Holman
Timetable
Thu 8:20–9:55 K21
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
The main objectives of the course are the following:
acquainting students with making of museum collection;
prepare a collection plan of museum;
information about collecting programmes in abroad;
plans og collecting management
Syllabus
  • Basic terms: collector, collecting, museum object, museum collection, collecting in museums, museum.
  • Private collecting and museum collecting
  • Subject of collecting. Theory of selection. Theory of tesauration.
  • Collecting - process, methods, view-point.
  • Collecting and its problems in connection with condition of museum collections.
  • Collections and its scientific treatment.
  • SAMDOK, ecomuseology, new museology,documentation of minorities.
  • Condition of museum collection in present time and collecting in future.
Literature
  • Beneš, Josef: Muzeum a sbírky. Praha 1977
  • Šášky, Ladislav: Funkcie zbierkového predmetu. Múzeum 1990, č. 4
  • DOLÁK, Jan. A Museum is the Reality. In Museums, museology and global communication. 1st ed. Changsha: ICOFOM, 2008, p. 115-121. ISBN 978-3-00-025442-0. info
  • DOLÁK, Jan. Documentation of the recent period in the Czech Republic. In Connecting Collecting. 1st ed. Stockholm: Samdok, Nordiska museet, 2008, p. 108 -109. ISSN 1651-1581. URL info
  • DOLÁK, Jan. Mežkulturnaja kommunikacija i rol muzeev v nej (Task of Museums in Intercultural Communication). In Mežkulturnyj i mežreligioznyj dialog v celjach ustojčivogo razvitija. 1st ed. Moskva: Rossijskaja akademija gosudarstvennoj služby pri prezidente Rossijskoj federacii, 2008, p. 177-179. ISBN 978-5-7729-0335-3. info
  • DOLÁK, Jan. Muzeologie - její formování a výuka z hlediska zahraničních zkušeností (Museology -- its formation in light of international experience). In Teorie a praxe 2007; Sborník z mezinárodního semináře Setkání vyučujících muzeologie na vysokých školách v České republice a na Slovensku. 1st ed. Brno: Technické muzeum v Brně, 2008, p. 17 - 21. ISBN 978-80-86413-51-8. info
  • DOLÁK, Jan. Task of Museums in Intercultural Communication. In Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue for Sustainable Developement. 1st ed. Moskva: Russian Academy for Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation, 2008, p. 176-177. ISBN 978-5-7729-0335-3. info
  • DOLÁK, Jan. Towards a Modern Museum Communication. In Heading Towards a Modern Museum. 2008. info
  • DOLÁK, Jan. Czech and Slovak museology, current status and the future of this branch of science. Nordisk Museologi. 2007, vol. 2007, No 2, p. 99-106. ISSN 1103-8152. info
  • DOLÁK, Jan. Muzejní dokumentace a prezentace nejnovějších dějin (Museum documentation and presentation of the very latest history). In Teorie a praxe - dokumentace společnosti. 1st ed. Brno: Technické muzeum v Brně, 2007, p. 11-18. ISBN 80-86413-40-3. info
  • DOLÁK, Jan. Dokumentace současnosti doma i ve světě (Documentation of the present: home (Czech Republic) and abroad). In Teorie a praxe - dokumentace současnosti, Sborník z odborného semináře. 1st ed. Brno: Technické muzeum v Brně, 2006, p. 4-20. ISBN 80-86413-31-4. info
  • DOLÁK, Jan. Muzejní dokumentace menšin doma i ve světě (Museum documentation of minorities: home (Czech Republic) and abroad). In Tezaurace a prezentace kulturního dědictví minorit ve sbírkových a výstavních programech muzeí a galerií. 1st ed. Praha: Židovské muzeum v Praze, 2006, p. 21-36. ISBN 80-86889-42-4. info
  • DOLÁK, Jan. Muzeologie hledá sama sebe (Museology is looking for itself). In Muzeológia - teória a prax. 1. vyd. Banská Štiavnica: Spoločnosť pre pamiatky a Fakulta prírodných ved Univerzity Mateja Bela v B.Bystrici, 2006, p. 20-24. ISBN 80-969561-7-5. info
  • STRÁNSKÝ, Zbyněk. Archeologie a muzeologie. Vydání první. Brno: Masarykova univerzita v Brně, 2005, 315 stran. ISBN 8021038616. info
  • DOLÁK, Jan. K teorii sbírkotvorné činnosti muzeí. Některé problémy muzejní selekce (Towards the theory of collection works of museums. Some problems of museums selection). In Teorie a praxe vybraných muzejních činností. 1st ed. Brno: Technické muzeum v Brně, 2005, p. 4-11. ISBN 80-86413-20-9. info
  • DOLÁK, Jan. Muzea v procesu transformace (Museums in Transformation Process). In Muzea v procesu transformace;Museums in Transformation Process. 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2004, 203 pp. ISBN 80-210-3594-3. info
  • DOLÁK, Jan. Nová muzeologie a ekomuzeologie. (New museology and ecomuseology). Věstník Asociace muzeí a galerií České republiky. Praha: Asociace muzeí a galerií České republiky, 2004, vol. 2004, No 1, p. 11-16, 5 pp. ISSN 1213-2152. info
  • BELK, Russell W. Collecting in a consumer society. London: Routledge, 1995, v, 198 s. ISBN 0-415-10534-X. info
  • Interpreting objects and collections. Edited by Susan M. Pearce. London: Routledge, 1994, xii, 343. ISBN 0415112893. info
Teaching methods
lectures, individual project
Assessment methods
lectures, final project, oral exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1999, Autumn 2001, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2013, Spring 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020.
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