Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Atelier Department for Interdisciplinary History
- Code
- BMI-KOMA21-12
- Title
- Museum history
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- Published semester
- 2026/27/1
- ECTS
- 4
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- The course of history of the museum with a focus of cultural history and art history, completed with the analysis of the present situation of contemporary museums, will help students to understand how the institution of museums fulfil its goal to preserve, transmit and demonstrate the cultural heritage.
- Course content
- In the course of lectures, we will have an overview about the history of the institution of museums from the 18. Century, and its correspondence with the notion and practice of the universal cultural history, art history, in the context of the history of media and social communication. We will analyse the machinery of classification, the process while the museology is turning to be a decisive part of social science. We compare the European and American system of museology, we touch the connections between museums and colonialism, by considering the contemporary changes with regard to non-European museums. Finally we will turn to the question of the connection between post-colonialism and museums, and the actual problems of restitution, and repatriation.
- Assessment method
- University exam. The basic frame for evaluating student performance of the course determined by the university’s code of conduct. According to this document, the instructor can determine the means of evaluation of the course depending on the nature of the field of knowledge and skills presented at the course. The university exam can take the form on an actual oral exam or a combination of various forms of oral, written and performed performances.
- Bibliography
- Andrew McClellan: The Art Museum from Boullée to Bilbao, Berkeley – Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2008, 364 p., ISBN 987-0-520-24767-3 Donald Preziosi, Claire Farago (eds.): Grasping the World. The Idea of the Museum, London, Ashgate, 2004, 779 p., ISBN 0-7546-0829-8 Charles W. Haxthausen (ed.): The Two Art Histories. The Museum and the University (Clark Studies in the Visual Arts), Williamstown, Mass., Sterling and Francis Clark Art Institute, 2002, 195 p., ISBN 0-931102-44-8 The Inbetweenness of Things. Materializing Mediation and Movement between Worlds, edited by Paul Basu, Bloomsbury Academic, 2017, ISBN: HB: 978- 1- 4742- 6477- 8