Content (Syllabus outline)
• 1. THEORY:
• A) Definitions
• Collecting, collectors, collection
• Classification, taxonomy
• Art work, artifact, museum object
• B) basic:
• Museology and related fields
• History of museum and museum science
• Museum and globalization
• Museum’s role in contemporary society
• C) cultural heritage (Buildings and sites)
• Definition and basic problems of preservation of the cultural heritage
• History of conservation
• Introduction in the technology of building materials and construction
• Examples of culture heritage preservation
• Administrative procedures in cultural heritage
• Basic procedures for conservation program
• 2) PRAXIS (will be carried out by CHP professionals at the museums, galleries, and Institutes for the protection of Cultural heritage )
• Acquisition
• Attribution (datation, maker, author, material)
• Preventive conservation
• Interpretation
• Collection management
• Basic educational work
• Evaluation of cultural heritage
• Cultural heritage survey and analysis
• Documentation and Interpretation of CH
• Preparation of the procedures
• Cultural heritage management
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
After concluding the study program Museology and conservation, the graduates will be able to conduct a critical evaluation of the museum objects, classification into collections, basic documentation procedures, and basic educational work procedures. In the field of conservation, the graduates will be able to assess the CHP monument (with the help of the CHP professional), and they will be able to prepare basic conservational program outline. In the both fields, they will assess and understand the cultural heritage legislation and basic management procedures.
Readings
1. ICOMov kodeks muzejske etike, http://www.icom-slovenia.si/fileadmin/user_upload/dokumenti/eticni_kodeks/eticni_kodeks.pdf
2. KOS, Mateja, O nacionalnih muzejih I. in II., Argo 59/1,2, Ljubljana 2016
3. PERKO, Verena, Muzeologija in arheologija za javnost: Muzej Krasa, Ljubljana 2014
4. MIKUŽ, Marjeta, Pogledi na muzeje v dobi globalizacije, Ljubljana: ISH - Fakulteta za podiplomski humanistični študij: Muzej novejše zgodovine Slovenije, 2004
5. MAHNIČ, Katja, Stalna razstava kot prostor nenehnega vzpostavljanja pomenov, Stalna muzejska razstava (ed. Nadja Terčon, Verena Vidrih Perko), Radovljica, Ljubljana 2018
6. BRAČUN SOVA, Rajka, Različnim obiskovalcem različne možnosti, Argo, 50/1, 2007
7. PEARCE, Susan M., Museums, Objects and Collections, A Cultural Study, London, New York, 1998
8. ŠOLA Tomislav, Esseys on Museums and their visitors: Towards a cybernetic Museum, The future of museums and the role of museology, Helsinki 1997
9. HORVAT Jasna, Razvoj muzejstva na Slovenskem, Arhivi 8, Ljubljana 1985
10. HORVAT Jasna, Zbirke - predhodnice muzejev, Argo 36-37, Ljubljana 1994
11. Jelka Pirkovič, Celostono ohranjanje in varstvo dediščine, razvoj dejavnosti in sodobna izhodišča, skripta, Ljubljana 2010*
12. Pirkovič, Jelka, Osnovni pojmi in zasnova spomeniškega varstva v Sloveniji, Vestnik št. 11, 1993, poglavje Vrste opravil v spomeniškem varstvu, str. 71-79,
13. Djurić, Bojan, Kopati ali ne kopati? Veliki razvojni projekti in zaščitna arheologija, Spomeniškovarstveni razgledi, 2003, št. 2, str. 10-18,
14. Pirkovič, Jelka, Reproduciranje izginulih spomenikov in vprašanje pristnosti, Varstvo spomenikov, 2003, letnik 40, str. 209-221,
15. Zupančič, Matej, Kavčič, Mateja, Deanovič, Boris, Enotna metodologija za pripravo konservatorskega načrta, Ljubljana 2007.
