FF:MUKS26 Practice in Conservation

MUKS26 Practice in Museum Conservation

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2011

Extent and Intensity

0/4/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

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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:
making students aware to conservation work;
Practical conservation of some museum objects

Syllabus

Safety of work;
Inorganic materials - iron and its alloy, copper amd its alloy, silver, gold, zinc, plumbum, tin, aluminium and their alloy.Conservation;
Organic materials - wood, paper, textile, leather, bone and horn, wicker, straw, reed-mace, folk bread, dried fruit. Conservation;
Making of copies of metal objects;
Methods of conservator's works and documentation;
Practical conservation of some object and documentation;

Literature

Págo, Ladislav: Úvod do muzejní konzervace. Brno, UJEP 1984.
Základy muzejní konzervace : muzeografické učební texty. 2. Edited by Zbyněk Zbyslav Stránský. Brno: Muzeologické oddělení Moravského muzea v Brně, 1976, 268 s. info

Teaching methods

individual projects

Assessment methods

seminar, written documentation of conservation of museum object

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.