History of Museology

or from collecting in antiquity and the Middle Ages through Renaissance cabinets, museography to museology

 

Taught by: doc. PhDr. Jan Dolák, PhD.

Form of teaching: lecture

ECTS: 4

Objective:

Students will gain an orientation in the development of museology as a science, the subject of its research, personalities of world and Slovak museology.

Brief outline:

• The subject of study of historical museology.
• Genesis of the museum relationship.
• Periodization of the development of the museum phenomenon.
• History of collecting and institutionalization of the museum phenomenon.
• The Middle Ages, Renaissance cabinets, kunstkammer and naturkammer.
• The emergence of modern museums and their focus at home and in Europe.
• The state of museology at the beginning of the 20th century, stages of development in the first half of the 20th century. 20th century.
• Trends of museum development in the 2nd half of the 20th century. 20th century.
• Development of museological theory in the 20th century.
• European and non-European schools of museology and their representatives.
• Czechoslovak Museological School.
• Museology in Slovakia and Czechoslovakia in the interwar period.
• Changes in Slovak museology after 1948, pluses and minuses.
• Museum organisation and international cooperation.
• International Council of Museums ICOM.

Graduation Requirements:

• The instructor will accept a maximum of 2 absences.
• Final sixty-minute quiz.

Recommended reading:

• BAZIN, Germain. Museum Age. London: Universe Books, 1967.
• BENNETT, Tony (1995). The Birth of the Museum. New York: Routledge Press,1995.
• STRÁNSKÝ, Zbyněk, Zbyslav. Archeologie a muzeologie. Brno: Masarykova univerzita,2005.
• DOLÁK, Jan (et al.). Základy muzejní pedagogiky. Studijní texty. Brno: Moravské muzeum v Brně, 2014.
• DOLÁK, Jan. Sběratelství a sbírkotvorná činnost muzeí. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského, 2018.
• DOLÁK, Jan.Teoretická podstata muzeologie. 2. dopl. vydání. Brno: Technické muzeum v Brně, 2020.
• HOPKINS, Owen. Muzeum. Od počátků po 21. století. Praha: Pangea, 2022.
• SOAREZ, Bruno, Brulon (ed.). A history of Museology, Paris: ICOFOM, 2019.