Course detail

Museum and Galleries in Practice

FaVU-3MUGA-ZAcad. year: 2015/2016

Museums and galleries - the practical aspects
1. The beginnings of a museum, its social context and the basic museum fucntions
2. Collections and their rights
a. evidence, doccumentation, legislative, inner and outer norms (statutes, collection administration regulations, ethical codex, international museum and gallery standards)
b. collection conditions, their security, care, storing, environmental parameters, conservation
3. various museum and gallery models, positions, managing, and funding
a. collection characteristiscs and quality parameters, profiles, collection-making program

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

0

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students will acquire wider knowlegde in the history and current practices of museums and galleries.

Prerequisites

Students have to have basic orientation in art practices and basic experience in institutional context and in the art world.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations..

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Exam

Course curriculum

Museums and galleries - the practical aspects
1. The beginnings of a museum, its social context and the basic museum fucntions
2. Collections and their rights
a. evidence, doccumentation, legislative, inner and outer norms (statutes, collection administration regulations, ethical codex, international museum and gallery standards)
b. collection conditions, their security, care, storing, environmental parameters, conservation
3. various museum and gallery models, positions, managing, and funding
a. collection characteristiscs and quality parameters, profiles, collection-making program

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Students have to have basic orientation in art practices and basic experience in institutional context and in the art world.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Seminars, tutorials.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Marketing a management muzeí a památek., Kesner Ladislav Praha: Grada 2005
Ladislav Kesner Historie a geografie umění v uměleckém muzeu Bulletin Moravské galerie 62, 2006: 121-30

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme VUD Doctoral

    branch UMVP_DP , 1. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VUUP_DP , 1. year of study, winter semester, elective

  • Programme VUD Doctoral

    branch VUUP_DK , 1. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch UMVP_DK , 1. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VUUP_DK , 2. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch UMVP_DK , 2. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch VUUP_DK , 3. year of study, winter semester, elective
    branch UMVP_DK , 3. year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

13 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer