MUSEOLOGY

The course forms part of the art-historical core teaching in Arts Management. It is designed for students with a humanistic, human sciences, and/or an arts management education at the B.A. level.
It provides 6 CFU and is the first part of a 12-CFU course together with CURATORSHIP E PRATICHE ESPOSITIVE PER L’ARTE CONTEMPORANEA (4th term).

- Familiarity with the keywords of the museological debate of the last decades.

- Awareness of the relations among museum policies, more general cultural trends, and political agendas in the present and in the past.

- Ability to understand different strategies of display and interaction concerning the institutions of preservation and historical memory.

a good understanding of written English

The course consider museums and other institutions devoted to heritage preservation and historical memory from the point of view of cultural history.

Its main topics are:
- forms and theories of the accumulation, display and re-interpretation of objects;
- introduction to the discourses concerning museums as institutions, communities and media, with a concentration on postcolonial discourses and the historical memory of traumatic events;
- best-practice examples concerning places, agents and institutions devoted to heritage preservation and historical memory (not only art museums).

A. Assigned Readings

Attending Students
The readings discussed in class and shared through the platform moodle.unive.it

Non-Attending Students
The readings shared through moodle.unive.it and, additionally:
Sharon Macdonald, “A Companion to Museum Studies”, Blackwell, Oxford 2006 (General introduction and parts I and VI with their own introductory essays)


B. Optional Readings
Claire Farago, Donald Preziosi (eds), "Grasping the World: the Idea of the Museum", Ashgate, Aldershot 2004

The evaluation considers the group presentation (see below, Teaching methods) and the results of the final in-class exam. The final in-class exam (lasting 90 minutes) consists of open-answer questions. It verifies the students' understanding of the topics discussed in class, presented on moodle and considered in the assigned readings.
Books, notes and electronic devices are not admitted during the exam.


The final note considers:

90%: in-class exam, questions concerning the issues discussed during the course and in the online materials; non-attending students will be tested on additional readings that shall be agreed with the teacher;
10%: presentations and interventions during the seminar (see below, Teaching methods). Non-attending students will answer an additional question during the in-class exam. One question concerns their visit to a specific museum, Non attending students shall be chose the museum to visit together with the teacher.

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

The participants are expected to visit a selection of Venetian museums outside of the teaching hours. They will be divided into small groups: each group will analyse the narrative proposed by a specific museum according to a common scheme that will be discussed in the first classes. In the final classes the groups will present their work in seminar format.

Italian

Non final version.

BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF THE COURSE, students with disabilities are kindly requestest to contact: 1) the Office Disabilità e DSA: disabilita@unive.it, 2) The INSTRUCTOR.

written and oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development