FF:MUI_11 Practice in Conservation - Course Information

MUI_11 Practice in Museum Conservation

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

Ing. Alena Selucká (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

prof. Mgr. Jiří Macháček, Ph.D.
Division of Museology – Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Lucie Valášková
Supplier department: Division of Museology – Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts

Timetable

each odd Wednesday 9:10–12:25 TMB

Prerequisites (in Czech)

MUI_09 Museum Conservation

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 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Museology (programme FF, B-HI) (2)
• Museology (programme FF, B-HS)

Course objectives

Introduction to the process of museological conservation of collection items involving the entry documentation, survey of the material, preventive and remedial conservation including restoration and copy-making. The course is conducted mainly in the form of demonstration examples and discussions to optimal treatment of selected collection items made of anorganic and organic materials. The intention is to support the proper decision-making process in determining the complex value of an item, to determine the appropriate conservation and restoration plan and the intervention rate. The processes are applied by the students on a given concrete item to which they will independently prepare the conservation-restoration documentation.

Syllabus

• - Principles of safety and hygiene of work at a conservation laboratory. - Preventive conservation, tool for optimization of microclimate conditions in museum environment - methods of measurement and regulation of relative humidity, temperature, lighting and cleanliness of the environment (chemical and biological factors) - Conservation of metal items - alloys of iron, copper and silver (survey, cleaning, stabilization, and surface treatment. Treatment of a concrete metal item according to the assignment and processing of conservation-restauration documentation. - Conservation of ceramics and glass - principles of survey, cleaning, glueing and filling in the missing parts, surface adjustments and retouching. Practical demonstration. - Conservation of wood - treatment of constructional points in historic objects and mobile collection items (survey, remediation, fixation, cleaning, impregnation, surface treatment). Demonstration. - Conservation of textiles, paper, and buff - identification processes of types of textile fibers, remediation, cleaning, impregnation, fixation and adjustments. Practical demonstration. - Copy-making for exhibition and education means - galvanoplastic copy, plaster cast. Practical demonstration.

Literature

• • Základy muzejní konzervace. Muzeografické učební texty III., Moravské muzeum, Brno 1989.
• BENEŠOVÁ, Jaroslava. Konzervování a restaurování kovů : ochrana předmětů kulturního dědictví z kovů a jejich slitin. Vyd. 1. Brno: Technické muzeum v Brně, Metodické centrum konzervace, 2011, 648 s. ISBN 9788086413709. info
• KOPECKÁ, Ivana. Preventivní péče o historické objekty a sbírky v nich uložené. Praha: Larus press servis, 2002, 109 s. ISBN 80-86234-28-2. info
• ĎUROVIČ, Michal. Restaurování a konzervování archiválií a knih. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Paseka, 2002, 517 s. ISBN 8071853836. info

Teaching methods

laboratory exercises, demonstration and practical demonstration

Assessment methods

colloquium - presentation on processed conservation-restauration documentation and discussion of the results attendance at the laboratory exercises

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

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