Jan Dolák
Doc. PhDr. Jan Dolák, PhD.
Graduate of Masaryk University in Brno. He has long been focusing on the collection and presentation activities of museums, theoretical museology, history of museums and museology, and management and marketing of memory organizations.
Education and Qualifications
- 2020: associate professor, cultural studies, Komensky University in Bratislava
- 2013: PhD. archaeology, MU FF Brno
- 1993 – 1996: specialisation studies in museology, MU FF Brno,
- 1986 – PhDr., History, FF UJEP Brno
- 1984: Mgr., specialisation - specialist history, Faculty of Arts UJEP Brno
Jobs and Lectureships
Jobs
- 2020 – present: associate professor, Faculty of Arts, Komensky University in Bratislava
- 2011 – 2020: assistant professor, Faculty of Arts UK Bratislava
- 2002 – 2014: head of UNESCO Chair of Museology and World Heritage MU FF Brno
- 2001 – 2002: external lecturer at the Department of Archaeology and Museology MU FF, Brno
- 2001 – 2002: deputy director of the Museum of East Bohemia in Hradec Králové.
- 1990 – 2001: Director of the Regional Museum in Jindřichův Hradec
- 1985 – 1990: historian, head of the department of the Vyškov Museum in Vyškov
Lecture stays abroad. Important universities and museums. Requested lectures. (selection)
- 2006: Wellington: NATHIST Annual meeting.
- 2007: Stockholm: conference SAMDOK - Connecting Collecting. Documentation of the recent period.
- 2007 Moscow: Conference: Mezhkulturnyj i mežreligioznyj dialog v celjach ustojčivogo razvitija. Organizer: Russian Academy of State Service under the President of the Russian Federation. Lecture: Intercultural communication and the role of museums in it.
- 2008: Warsaw: Conference Heading Towards a Modern Museum. Lecture:Towards a Modern Museum Communication.
- 2008: Museology in XXI. century, problems of studying a teaching. Organizer: St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of History. Lecture:Museology - the recent state and its future.
- 2008: Barnaul: Summer School of Museology. Barnaul State Pedagogical University. Lecture: Экспозиция как средство музейной коммуникации.
- 2008: Novosibirsk: Conference: Museology and Museums in a Changing World. Organizer ICOFOM Sib. Lecture: Exposition as a means of museum communication.
- 2008: Changsha: ICOFOM annual meeting. Museums, museology and global communication. Lecture: A museum is the reality.
- 2008: Rio de Janeiro: Conference: Um olhar contemporâneo sobre a preservaçao do patrimônio cultural material. Lecture: Cultura do patrimônio e sua conservaçao
- 2008: Montreal: CECA Annual meeting, Conference theme: Cultural Tourism : Trends and Strategies. Lecture: Museology as a Tool towards a Modern Museum.
- 2009: Liége: ICOFOM Annual meeting, Lecture: Some remarks on museum terminology.
- 2009: Taipei: ICOFOM-SIB Annual Conference and International Forum of Museology Education - Museums for the Society in the 21st Century. Lecture:
- Museum, Museology, Identity - Introduction to the Subject.
- 2010: Yerevan: Objectives of post- graduate and lifelong education. Armenian state pedagogical university after Kh. Abovyan. Lecture: Life-long education in museology and world heritage.
- 2011: St. Petersburg: Conference Muzeologia i muzeevedeniye, problemy prepodavanija i izucenija,
- 2011: Ljubljana: Conference: Dissonant heritage f the 20th century. Lecture: Dissonant History (heritage) in the Czech and Slovak republics.
- 2017: Lecture: Museum definition. Chinese cities of Huang-nan and Jinan, as well as a presentation at Peking University.
- 2018: Tehran: ICOFOM Annual meeting. Where is a border between museum and church?
- 2021: Ulan Ude: Universita v Ulan Ude FGBOU ВО "East Siberian State Institute of Culture" Ulan-Ude : Buryat. Conference "Museum and national heritage of cross-border regions in the XXI century".
Short presentations, chairing conference panels: Seoul, Shanghai, Montreal, Calgary, Paris, Dubrovnik, Mombasa, Reykjavik, Newcastle, Alta Gracia, Buenos Aires, Vienna, Mantova, Tsucuba, etc.
A large number of performances in the Czech Republic and Slovakia: Bratislava, Banská Bystrica, Banská Štiavnica, Hronec pri Brezne, Zvolen, Liptovský Mikuláš, Prague, Brno, Čáslav, Prachatice, Vyškov, Pelhřimov, Chrudim, etc.
Teaching
Teaching at the Faculty of Arts, UK Bratislava
- Museum communication
- Museum exhibitions
- Theoretical museology
- Collections and scientific activities of museums
- Organisation, management and marketing of museums
- Management and marketing of cultural institutions
- Current problems of museology and Monumentology
- History of museology
- Museology for non-museologists
- Metamuzeology (until 2016)
- Technical Museums (until 2015)
- World Museums (until 2020)
Teaching at FF MU Brno (2001 – 2014)
- Collecting and collecting activities of museums
- Museum management and marketing
- Museum communication and exhibition management
Teaching at Mendel University in Brno (2010 – 2012)
Cultural History
PhD students with completed studies: Mgr. Monika, Broulíková-Kovandová, PhD. University of West Bohemia in Pilsen (2015)
Overview of responsibility for the implementation, development and quality assurance of a study programme or part thereof at the university in the current academic year.
- Archiving, museology and digitization of historical heritage. Member of the field committee for doctoral studies at the Department of Slovak History - Faculty of Arts, Komensky University in Bratislava - III.: Slovak History
- Archiving, museology and digitization of historical heritage. Person Co-responsible for Bachelor’s and Master’s degree studies.
- Overview of responsibility for the development and quality of the department of habilitation and inauguration in the current academic year – FiF UK Bratislava: Slovak History.
Research projects
- UNESCO Chair of Museology and World Heritage from 2002 to 2012. Masaryk University in Brno, Faculty of Philosophy. Provided: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic - indicator F.
- Deputy project leader. IGA - UP Olomouc: Project's Registration No.: IGA_PdF_2016_025. Research on Museum Presentation and its Pedagogical Context One of the outputs of the project was the writing and publication of the book Museum Presentation by Dolák-Šobáňová, UP Olomouc 2018. The book was awarded an Honorable Mention by the Rector of UP in 2019.
- Czechoslovak freight and passenger transport on the Danube in the period of normalization. VEGA: Researcher, 2022-2024.
Publications
Monographs:
- Museum and Presentation. Bratislava: Comenius University 2015.
- Theoretical essence of museology. Brno: Technical Museum in Brno 2019.
- Museology and its Theory. Brno: Technical Museum in Brno 2020.
- Museum and Presentation (with Petra Šobáňová). Olomouc: Palacký University 2018.
- Visualisation of the Thought. Brno: Technical Museum in Brno 2024.
More than 100 articles published in Europe, Asia, Latin America. His work has been published in the following languages: Czech, English, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, German. Cited in 25 countries.
His texts are among the recommended literature for study at the following universities:
- Masaryk University in Brno, Technical University in Liberec, University of South Bohemia in
České Budějovice, Palacký University in Olomouc, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Silesian University in Opava, Charles University in Prague (accredited course at the National Museum of Agriculture in Prague). - Slovakia: UPJS Košice, Catholic University in Ružomberok, Comenius University in Bratislava.
- Russia: Saint Petersburg State University Saint Petersburg, Ural Federal University Ekaterinburg.
- Brazil: UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DE MINAS GERAIS - Belo Horizonte.
Membership in Scientific and Editorial Boards
- Member of the editorial board of the journal Museologica Brunensia, Czech Republic
- Member of the editorial board of the Museum History Journal, Great Britain
- Member of the editorial board of the journal Voprosy muzeologii, Russia
- Member of advisory boards of major museums in the Czech Republic (Litoměřice, Brno)
- Long-time chairman, now a member of the committee, of the museology commission of the Association of Museums and Galleries of the Czech Republic
- Long-time member of the ICOFOM committee, vice-president of ICOFOM from 2010 to 2013.
- Ranked as an important stakeholder for QS World University Rankings (QS WUR).
- APVV, KEGA, Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, NAKI - Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Rothschild (Hanadiv) Foundation, Grant Agency of Charles University in Prague and others.
- Member of the Advisory Board for Museum Legislation - Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic
- Member of the working group of the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic for the "Strategy for the Development of Museums and Galleries in the Slovak Republic".
- Reviewer of scientific monographs and proceedings.
- Opponent of projects of conceptual nature;
- Conception of the development of the South Moravian Region;
- Assessor of the Slovak Accreditation Agency for Higher Education
- Opponent of exhibition projects of international significance (exposition at Lety u Písku, exposition at the Riding School in Lednice, etc.).
- Organizer and co-organizer of many scientific conferences (mainly Brno, Bratislava and Prague); scientific guarantor of conferences (e.g. Banská Bystrica)
- Member of the committee for state doctoral examinations and for the defence of dissertation theses in the doctoral study field of Art Education (theory of art pedagogy and art creation) - Palacký University Olomouc.
- Member of the board of the study programme Museology and Protection of Objects of Cultural and
- Heritage (Bachelor's degree) - St. Petersburg State University.
- Member of the Board of the study programme ВМ.5651 "Visual Technologies in the Museum (Master's degree) - St. Petersburg State University.