MUSEOLOGY

This is a six-credit, core course of the Master's Degree Programme in "History of the Arts and Conservation of the Artistic Heritage". It can be attended by students enrolled in other Ca' Foscari programmes and in exchange programmes. However, it is desirable that potential participants from other programmes express their interest in this course to the teacher and the Humanities Campus before getting inscribed: some Ca' Foscari programmes have dedicated museology courses.

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

- Awareness of the relations among museum policies, 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 is required. This advanced course in museology can be fruitfully attended by students who have already attended a basic-level course in a B.A. Program (e.g. "Elementi di conservazione I" at Ca' Foscari University), but does not require that its participants have a basic training in this subject.

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 and re-interpretation of objects and memories;
- introduction to the discourses concerning museums as institutions, communities and media, with a concentration on postcolonial discourses and post-national identities;
- best-practice examples concerning places, agents and institutions devoted to heritage preservation and historical memory (not limited to art museums).

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 participation to discussions through the moodle forum dedicated to non-attending students

The evaluation considers the group presentation, if any (see below "Teaching methods") and the results of the final in-class exam. The final in-class exam (lasting about 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;
10%: presentations and interventions during the seminar and/or in the moodle forum.

Seminar. Further materials (sources, bibliography, links, PowerPoint presentations projected in class) will be shared through the platform moodle (http://moodle.unive.it ). Museum visits and presentations of the participants might be scheduled, depending on the opening of museums and libraries during the term. The teaching form (online or in presence) will be communicated through moodle's blackboard in the last weeks before the start of the course.

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.

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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