MUKS26 Practice in Museum Conservation

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/4/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Ing. Ivo Štěpánek (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Ing. Ivo Štěpánek
Division of Museology – Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Pavel Holman
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.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2003, Autumn 2003, Spring 2004, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2009, recent)
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