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 archaeological and historical-artistic curricula and aims to provide the methodological tools and basic notional skills regarding the conservation and management of works of art in museums.
This course constitutes the first module of the course of Elements of management and conservation of cultural heritage and is connected to the second module of 6 credits (FT0451-2).
The objectives of the teaching are: to provide a solid knowledge of the fundamental features of the history of museums and their conceptual and physical evolution, illustrating the cultural reasons, functions and types of organization and set-up over the centuries; to make students capable of interpreting the present exhibition forms in the light of the historical evolution of the relationship between a work of art and the museum context and of the relationship between a work of art and the public; allow female students to identify with awareness the critical issues underlying the current debates regarding museums.

-knowledge and understanding: attendance of the course and individual study will allow female students to acquire the fundamental vocabulary of museology and museography and basic knowledge on the history of museums, their functioning, their social role and their management from past to present.

- ability to apply knowledge and understanding: knowing how to recognize the distinctive features of an organization and an exhibition in relation to its context and knowing how to compare it with similar cases; being able to identify the main problems related to the different methods of conservation and display; know the relationship between conservation interventions and museology.

- ability to judge: ability to critically evaluate the choices of organization, displaying and management of a contemporary museum on the basis of the criteria it presents, recognizing its forms and cultural reasons.

- communication skills: knowing how to use the specific vocabulary of museology in an appropriate way to describe the historical and contemporary museum reality; acquire the ability to intervene with full knowledge of the facts in the debate on the issues of heritage management and conservation by comparing themselves with colleagues and teachers.

- learning ability: knowing how to recognize the fundamental characteristics of a museum from the point of view of organization and set-up; knowing how to place the history of a museum in the broader evolution of the history of European and world museums with reference to historical-social contexts and with comparisons with similar or opposable cases.

No special prerequisites are required; however, prior knowledge of ancient and modern art history would be desirable. A visit to at least one museum, Italian or international of one's choice, as long as it is a National Gallery/Museum or a Civic Museum that preserves archaeological works and/or medieval, modern, and contemporary art, of which he/she should be able to narrate the history of the formation of the collections and relate the current criteria of arrangement and display, is required. The visit to the chosen museum must take place during or after the end of the lectures, in any case before the examination.

The module (6 credits) will be dedicated to Museum Studies with elements of museography.
The course presents museology as the science of museum, in order to provide methodological and technical tools useful in guiding all forms of activities in museums.
The aim is to enable students to acquire knowledge about the history of collecting and about the museum institutions in Europe and particulary in Italy, from classical antiquity to the contemporary age and needs. The second part of the course should investigate the function of the museum in relation to its mission.
The program is structured as follows:
1. The history of collecting from antiquity to studioli, wunderkammern, cabinets, collections and gallery;
2. Outlines of the history of the museum in Europe, Italy and America, from the eighteenth century to the contemporary Age and needs: the museums of the Age of Reason; the French Revolution and the public opening of the Louvre Museum; and therefore up to the history of universal exhibitions and museums of art and industry; the Madrid International Conference, Museums during and between the two world wars, Reconstruction Museums, the development of contemporary art exhibitions and museums and the new types (for example museum’s communities - relationship between the museum's mission and the value of cultural heritage for society).

Texts (A) Adopted, (R) Recommended:
(A) M. T. Fiorio, Il museo nella storia. Dallo studiolo al museo virtuale, 3° edizione, Milano,Torino, Pearson, 2023;
(R) G. Bazin, Le temps des musées, prefazione e traduzione di P. Dragoni, Firenze, Edifir, 2018, pp. 7-27 mandatory, plus a chapter of your choice.
(R) M. V. Marini Clarelli, Il museo nel mondo contemporaneo. La teoria e la prassi, Carocci, Roma 2024, pp.21-90; 163-190 (capitoli 1, 2, 3, 4, 9).
Note: the texts adopted is to be considered mandatory.

The verification of learning is through a written test, consisting of three mandatory open-ended questions and one additional question.
The exam aims to verify that the knowledge derived from the topics covered during the course and acquired the basic concepts of the teaching materials in the University Moodle platform and the mandatory bibliography (adopted texts).
CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION OF EXAMINATION EXAMS:
- correctness and propriety in the use of language and vocabulary specific to the discipline;
- correctness and completeness of knowledge;
- ability to critically process knowledge.

Four exam appearances will be guaranteed.
No books, notes, paper or electronic media of any kind may be used during the written test, and no talking with other candidates is allowed.

Frontal and dialogic lectures, supported by power-point lecture materials and additional media literacy materials. Students are strongly encouraged to attend tutorials and in-depth seminars. Registration in the course Moodle space is mandatory.

Provisional version.

Ca' Foscari applies Italian law (Law 17/1999; Law 170/2010) for support and accommodation services available to students with disabilities or with specific learning disabilities. In case of motor, visual, hearing or other disabilities (Law 17/1999) or a specific learning disorder (Law 170/2010) and need for support (classroom assistance, technological aids for carrying out individualized exams or exams, accessible format material, notes retrieval, specialist tutoring to support the study, interpreters or other), please contact the Disability and SLD office: disable@unive.it.

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