Museum Studies

Course: Cultural Studies

Structural unit: Faculty of Philosophy

Title
Museum Studies
Code
ВП.3.08.01
Module type
Вибіркова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2022/2023
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
4 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
4
Learning outcomes
6. Identify, verify and summarize information about various contexts of cultural practice, determine the degree of their relevance using relevant sources, information, communication tools and visual technologies.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1. Before studying this course, students must know the basic stages and characteristics of the History of Ukraine and the World History, the main features and specific characteristic of Ukrainian and World culture, basic culturological theories and methods of research cultural phenomena and processes. 2. Students must be able to collect and analyze historical and cultural sources, information databases and a set of scientific information; apply the basic principles of research work on events and phenomena of historical and cultural content, use foreign language sources of museum studies. 3. Students must have basic skills of scientific analyses, interpretation and presentation of issues, correct application of scientific-categorical apparatus, systematization of facts and events of historical and cultural content, the ability to generalize and predict.
Course content
1: Museology as a scientific discipline 2. Formation of the museum as a socio-cultural institution. Museums and museum business in the Enlightenment (XVII-XVIII centuries) 3: The idea of a public museum and its implementation in the late XVIII- XIX centuries 4. The main world trends and directions of development of museology in the XX - early XXI century 5. History and current state of museum studies in Ukraine 6. The evolution of the legislative and regulatory framework of museums. National museum policy. 7. Museum source studies. Scientific acquisition and accounting of museum funds. 9. Modes and systems of storage of museum collections 8: Study, attribution and examination of objects of museum value 10. Restoration and conservation of historical and cultural monuments 11. Museum architecture. Scientific and exhibition work of the museum. 12: System of museum social communications 13. Management and marketing of museum business
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Genowas H.H, Andrei M.A. Museums origins^ reading in early museum history and philosophy. London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016. Latham K.F., Simmons J.E. Foundations of museums studies evolving systems of knowledge. Santa Barbara, Calif. Libraries Unlimited, 2014. Schwarzer M. Riches, rivals and radicals:100 years of museums in America. Washington, DC : American Association of Museums, 2006. Simons J.E. Museums: a history. Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, seminars, self-study
Assessment methods and criteria
1. Control work on the topics of the unit 1 (test): 10 points/6 points. 2. Control work on the topics of unit 2 (test): 10 points/6 points. 3. Essay (creative work) on the topics of the part 1: 10 points/6 points. 4. Essay (creative work) on the topics of the part 2: 10 points/6 points. 5. Evaluation of work during seminars: 40 points/24 points. The final work contains two tasks, each of which is evaluated in 10 points each.
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Nataliia Volodymyrivna Teres
Department of Ethnology and Local History
Faculty of History

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Department of Ethnology and Local History
Faculty of History