FPF:UHVM0068 Formation of Collections - Course Information
UHVM0068 Formation of Collections
Faculty of Philosophy and Science in OpavaWinter 2019
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- PhDr. Petr Vojtal (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Ilona Matejko-Peterka, Ph.D.
Institute of Historical Sciences – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- UHVM0068/A: Mon 11:25–12:10 PrPed, Tue 10:35–11:20 PrPed, P. Vojtal
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- TYP_STUDIA(B)
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- History - Museology (programme FPF, B7105 HiVe)
- History - Preservation of Monuments (programme FPF, B7105 HiVe)
- Museology in combination with another discipline (programme FPF, B6107 HuSt)
- Course objectives
- Theory of selection, methods of implementation in the museum. Definition of terms museum, museum pieces, the museum's collection, sub-collection. Forms and methods of selection in the practical activities of museums. The importance of documentation. Active and passive selection. The systematic arrangement of collections - building information system - a thesaurus. The importance of expert scientific documentation for the preservation of collections. Creating a thesaurus information collection, evaluation collections. Use of IT for processing collections of source and use of collections. Methods of destruction of collections and their use in practice. Cataloging and technical documentation. Principles for the storage and preservation of collections in the repositories. Management of collections (collections management plan) - method for rapid and operative arrangement of collections at the museum.
- Syllabus
- Creating Collections
Collections as an essential element values in the museum culture. Specifications and specialization according to the typology of museums as part of the construction process thesauration. Creating collections, structures and compositions in a historical context, the current basis. Evaluation reports for strategic planning. In the seminar part of the work will be awarded to selected topics.
- acquisition programs
- forms of building and expanding collections
- Chronological evidence
- System records
- inventory.
- Creating Collections
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
- Teacher's information
- * Successful completion of the final test
* the individual papers in the form of presentation
- Enrolment Statistics (Winter 2019, recent)
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