FUNDAMENTALS OF CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE I

Part of the core teaching in Conservation of Cultural Heritage and Performing Arts Management, the course is designed for students enrolled in the curricula “Performative Arts” and “ Arts Management”.
It offers 6 CFU and is the first part of a 12-CFU course. The second part of the course ("FUNDAMENTALS OF CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE, II", FT0451) is taught in the fourth term.

Good command of the vocabulary and main discourses concerning museums; awareness of their historical background

Critical knowledge of collection theories

Awareness of the different forms of museum, art collection and art accumulation developed from the sixteenth century, especially in Europe

Ability to consider the arrangement of museums in relation with their history and reference community

Basic notions of history (from the early modern to the contemporary age) and of the history of thought

It provides basic notions in the fields of the history of collecting, the theory of collections and museology. It considers cultural history from the point of view of cultural heritage, with special regard to the institutions of preservation.

The course consist of three sections:

- Exemplary cases of art accumulation; creative re-interpretations of museums in the last decades; other forms of art consumption (with specific regard to exhibitions).

- Key concepts of the museum practice and the museological debate

- The arrangement and curatorial challenges of selected Venetian museums (as group activity)

Assigned Readings

- Pietro C. Marani, Rosanna Pavoni, Musei: trasformazioni di un'istituzione dall'età moderna al contemporaneo, Marsilio, Venezia 2012 (excluding the appendix)

- Maria Teresa Fiorio, Il museo nella storia. Dallo studiolo alla raccolta pubblica, Mondadori, Milano 2011

- Lucia Cataldo e Marta Paraventi, Il museo oggi. Linee guida per una museologia contemporanea, Hoepli, Milano 2007, pp. 44-61 and 113-158


Non Attendance

The students who cannot attend the classes for good reasons shall additionally read:

- Francis Haskell, La nascita delle mostre. I dipinti degli antichi maestri e l’origine delle esposizioni d’arte, Skira, Milano-Ginevra 2008

- Krzysztof Pomian, Collezionisti, amatori e curiosi: Parigi - Venezia XVI - XVIII secolo, Il Saggiatore, Milano 1989

The final in-class exam (lasting 80 minutes) consists of open-answer and closed-answer questions. It verifies the students' understanding of the topics discussed in class, presented on moodle and considered in the assigned readings. One open-answer question will address the arrangement and display of a Venetian museum chosen by the candidate among those visited during the group activities and discussed in class.

Books, notes and electronic devices are not admitted during the exam.

The final note considers:

40%: questions of the in-class exam concerning the issues discussed in class and in the online materials; non-attending students will be tested on the two additional readings;
30%: in-class exam, questions about the assigned readings;
30%: in-class exam, open question about a Venetian museum (free choice topic).

Interactive lectures. Further materials (sources, bibliography, PowerPoint presentations projected in class) will be shared through the platform moodle (http://moodle.unive.it ).

Visiting selected Venetian museums forms an essential part of the didactic attivity. The visits will take place in non-teaching hours and in small groups. The results of this group activity will be discussed in class. Further practical information on the visits will be provided in the first class.

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This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Cities, infrastructure and social capital" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development