ETMA115 Open-air Museums

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2024
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Daniel Drápala, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Daniel Drápala, Ph.D.
Department of European Ethnology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Martina Maradová
Supplier department: Department of European Ethnology – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 10:00–11:40 J31, except Tue 16. 4.
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 course focuses on problems protection of folk culture, history of open-air musems, elemental theories going to building open-air museums and its working today.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course students should be able to understand the specifics of open-air museums, their main development periods and metamorphoses of the open-air museum construction concepts, relationship between those museums and the monument preservation, their basic principles of functioning, the typology of the open-air museums, and their ways of presentation. Students should be able to apply the acquired knowledge to individual open-air museums and specific sub-issues.
Syllabus
  • introduction, terminology used, typology of open-air museums,
  • historical preconditions, predecessors of open-air museums,
  • beginnings of open-air museums in Europe (A. Haselius, Skansen, Scandinavian countries) and in Central Europe,
  • projects of national open-air museums, development of the conservation concept and the open-air museum concept,
  • open-air museums of local history built and planned in the Czech Republic,
  • other types of open-air museums in the CR,
  • types of folk culture presentation in open-air museums,
  • open-air museum as a laboratory of traditional technologies,
  • models of conceptual plan and scenario development in open-air museum
Literature
    required literature
  • BRYOL, Radek, Jan DOLÁK, Lenka DRÁPALOVÁ, Jana KOUDELOVÁ and Jiří LANGER. Muzea v přírodě v České republice : teoretická a metodická východiska. Rožnov pod Radhoštěm: Národní muzeum v přírodě, 2020, 79 stran. ISBN 9788087210734. info
  • DRÁPALA, Daniel. Definice muzea v přírodě a limity jejího naplňování (The definition of an open-air museum and the limits of its fulfilment). In Eva Kuminkova. Muzea v přírodě. Jedinečná cesta muzejnictví. První. Rožnov pod Radhoštěm: Národní muzeum v přírodě, 2019, p. 12-30. ISBN 978-80-87210-72-7. info
    recommended literature
  • RENTZHOG, Sten. Open air museums : the history and future of a visionary idea. Translated by Skans Victoria Airey. [Stockholm]: Carlssons, 2007, xii, 530. ISBN 9789179482084. info
  • DRÁPALA, Daniel. K poslání muzeí v přírodě při prezentaci tradiční lidové kultury (Mission of the open-air museums in the traditional folk culture presentation). In Museum vivum. Sborník Valašského muzea v přírodě v Rožnově pod Radhoštěm. 2. 1st ed. Rožnov pod Radhoštěm: Valašské muzeum v přírodě v Rožnově pod Radhoštěm, 2006, p. 7 - 13. ISBN 978-80-239-8984-7. info
  • Evropská muzea v přírodě. Photo by Jiří Langer. Vyd. 1. Praha: Baset, 2005, 895 s. ISBN 8073400693. info
  • Československá muzea v přírodě. Edited by Jiří Langer - Jaroslav Štika. Vyd. 1. Martin: Osveta, 1989, 160, [14]. ISBN 8021700394. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, class discussion, excursions, homeworks, reading.
Assessment methods
Semestr paper, participation in excursions (min. 2), written examination.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2022.
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