UHVM0034 The history of Czech museums - part one

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Summer 2018
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Marian Hochel, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Marian Hochel, Ph.D.
Institute of Historical Sciences – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
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Course objectives
The first part of a two-part lecture series focuses on the genesis of public museums in the aftermath of the Enlightenment ideas and their application in the cultural sphere. Emphasis is placed on the Central European context, delayed against the spiritual progress of countries, especially France. Czech museum is seen as a museum in the Czech Republic, both in language German and Czech language environment. The oldest museum (Cieszyn, Opava, Prague, Brno) are analyzed from the perspective of content, institutional, organizational, legal and social widely. The following shows the confusion museum development priorities: from science to home history and especially archeology. Other changes have been shown - in terms of effect social change - inevitable after 19th century. The cycle is closed by turmoil museum in the late 19th century, which brought polarization of museum work and its extraordinary quantitative and qualitative growth. This process ended the First World War as a societal divide with fatal consequences to the sphere of museums.
Syllabus
  • 1. Enlightenment: genesis public collections in the 18th century and its relation to contemporary scholarship - examples from Europe
    2. The first museum in the Czech Republic - Opava, Brno, Prague - profile and personality.
    3. Romanticism in Czech museums - from science to history and national history, antiques topic
    4. The situation of Czech museums in the 50th - 70 the 19th century: museums liberal era
    5. Late 19 century - the situation of the National Museum in Prague - specific collections and methodological changes
    6. Decorative Arts museum in the Czech Republic from 1880 to 1918 - Prague, Brno, Liberec, Opava, Chrudim
    7. Regional Museum in the late 19th and early 20th Century - Prague, Central and Eastern Bohemia
    8. Regional Museum in the late 19th and early 20th Century - part two - Plzeň and South Bohemia
    9. Regional Museum in the late 19th and early 20th Century - part tree - German native history museums and museums for arts and crafts: Liberec
    10. Celebrities regional museums
    11. situation may Moravia and Silesia - German et / vs Czech Museum
    12. Specifics theory of museums in the Czech Republic before the First World War -Museology / museography
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
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