Course: Museology II

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Course title Museology II
Course code KHI/MUZ2M
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements Course does not contain work placement
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Hrušková Kateřina, Mgr. et Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Lhotová Markéta, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Lectures: 1) The museum thesaurus as an object-informational unit and the theory of museum selection. 2) Development of the motivation of collections and the concepts of a museal item. 3) The terms of museal collection item, authenticity and museality; object of musealisation. 4) Active and passive selection - collecting, donations, purchases, exchanges, study collections (problem of duplicates). 5) Primary context, selection, documentation. 6) Authentic, primary and secondary documentation. 7) Selection methodology, role of the Advisory Committee, basic property documentation. 8) Theory of museum thesaurus - thesaurus as the creation of a value system, criteria for creating a thesaurus. 9) Thesaurus forms in the past. 10) The terms thesaurus, collection item and collection fund, fund structure. 11) Object model and secondary context; systematics of the thesaurus - core and marginal issues, plan for creating the collection. 12) Information thesaurus, fixation, importance of the information value of collections, links between thesaurus and museums - the relationship of chronological and systematic evidence. 13) Thesaurus information system - database, ICOM-CIDOC data model for documentation of museum collections, primary description (internal, external) and secondary. 14) Recapituliation. Exercises: In the exercises, during the preparation of a selected model museum collection, students will practice the individual actions associated with the collection-making activity and with the documentation of the collections. 1) Familiarization with the course of the seminar part of the course, assignment of a semester project - creation of a model museum collection 2) Specification of assignment of semester projects, Act 122/2000 Coll. - basic familiarization 3) Act 122/2000 Coll. - CES and other databases of museum collections e-collection, Europeana (Athena Plus) 4) Act 122/2000 Coll. - legislative background for collection activities 5) Other legislative regulations in museum practice 6) Collection creation process in practice, staffing of work with the collection 7) Excursion (excursion will take place according to current possibilities) 8) Acquisition of collection items, preparation, implementation, legislative definition 9) Records of collection items; chronological X systematic records (documents, legal content), record systems, CITEM activity, inventory of collections, disposal 10) Excursion (excursion will take place according to current possibilities) 11) Financial provision of the museum's activities, budget, subsidies, possibilities of scientific and research activities in the museum subsidized by external grants, cooperation with other institutions 12) Presentation of projects 13) Presentation of projects

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monological explanation (lecture, presentation,briefing), Dialogue metods(conversation,discussion,brainstorming), Self-study (text study, reading, problematic tasks, practical tasks, experiments, research, written assignments)
  • Contacts hours - 56 hours per semester
  • Preparation for exam - 47 hours per semester
  • Home preparation for classes - 47 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The Museology II and Museology III courses are focused on the interpretation of theoretical museology and the methods of applying theoretical considerations in museum practice. Museology II is devoted to the creation of museum collections as item-information units based on the profile of the museum collections. The theoretical basis of this phase is the subsystems of selection and thesaurus. Students will get to know the methods and criteria for acquiring museum items, their inclusion in the structure of the collection and the creation of the thesaurus information system as a basis for further use of the collections. The application part will be devoted to practical aspects of museum activities and functions, collection-building activities and legislation.
It corresponds to the definition of the subject and to the demands given in syllabus.
Prerequisites
Fulfilment of previous study obligations, see the study program.
KHI/MUZ1M

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam, Practical demonstration of acquired skills

Credit conditions: active participation in classes and excursions, attendance - max. 2 absences, ongoing completion of assigned tasks - evaluation or a short oral/PPT presentation will always take place at the beginning of the seminar according to the previous assignment, oral presentation of your own project in the 49th or 50th week the year 2023. Oral exam will be on the basis of lectures, exercises and basic (compulsory) literature.
Recommended literature
  • STRÁNSKÝ, Zbyněk:. Úvod do studia muzeologie, 2., aktualiz. a podstatně rozš. vyd.,. Brno,, 2000. ISBN 80-210-1272-2.
  • ŽALMAN, Jiří. Příručka muzejníkova II. Praha, 2006. ISBN 80-86611-19-1.
  • ŽALMAN, Jiří. Příručka muzejníkova I. Praha, 2010. ISBN 978-80-86611-41-9.


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