MUKS34 Museum Collections II.

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
2/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
RNDr. Vlastimil Tlusták, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Pavel Holman
Division of Museology – Department of Archaeology and Museology – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Pavel Holman
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
At the end of the course students should be able to:
understand of museum collections and its parts
prepare collecting plan of museum
clasification of potencial museum collection's objects
defend a new collecting plan
Syllabus
  • History of collection and museums and collecting; defferent types of collections in the time.
  • Cultural heritage, collecting, objects and cultural value; relation to collections in various types of museums; comparison with foreign countries.
  • Museum collections and national cultural heritage,
  • Museum object its definitions,characteristics; basic types of museum object.
  • Museum object and its esthetic, economic, technological, historical and information capacity. Museum object as responsible of informations.
  • Methods of identification of potential museum objects, selection. Musealia, museality, authenticity. Form of acquiring of museums objects.
  • Museum collection, collection as a informational and documentational system.
  • Museum object as a part of collection of various types of museums and various scientific disciplines. Structure of museum collections, intention to museum documentation.
  • Museum collections and natural sciences; non-living nature (geology, mineralogy, paleontology), living nature (botyny, zoology), anthropology. Documentation, storages, protection.
  • Documentation of collections - history, principles, cataloguing, systems.
  • Computers and museum documentation
  • Problems of collectiong in contemporary world.
  • Practice
Literature
  • Výběr prací z muzeologické literatury
  • Svoboda, J.F.: Zásady českého muzejnictví
  • Beneš,Josef: Muzeum a sbírky, Praha 1977
  • Vergo: The New Museology
  • Waidacher, Friedrich: Príručka všeobecnej muzeológie. Bratislava 1999
  • STRÁNSKÝ, Zbyněk. Úvod do studia muzeologie : určeno pro posluchače International Summer School of Museology - ISSOM. Vyd. 1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1995, 114 s. ISBN 8021007036. info
Teaching methods
lectures, group projects
Assessment methods
lectures, individual project - collection plan, terminology, reading
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught in blocks.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2009, recent)
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