| CODE | TRS3251 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Museology | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 6 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Institute for Tourism, Travel and Culture | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | “What is a museum?” and “What is the purpose of the museum?” These are two of the questions this unit raises and explores. Examining the end-effect on users of museums is another key line of enquiry that students will pursue in this course of studies. So too, they will look at a range of museums with a view to examining through practical and direct study the nature of the museum experience that different approaches to Museology give the museum visitor. Approaching the discipline of Museology from the perspective of the user or visitor to the museum, this study-unit provides students with a solid theoretical grounding as well as first hand experience of what individuals find when they enter through doors or gateways of the wide variety of museums that exist in the world today. From local independently run non-government funded museum to the imagine and identity forming role of national museums from 19th Century style museum collections to the immersive virtual museum experience and critically understand the effect of each type and form of museum on the tourist and visitors. Study-unit Aims The aim of the study-unit is to develop students’ understanding of the ways in which museums have been – and are - studied and analyzed by researchers and theorists across a range of disciplines, and to provide them with experience of the practical application of methods and tools in the field. Learning Outcomes 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Demonstrate a critical knowledge and understanding of key theories of, and approaches, to museology. - Locate the development of museology in its historical and critical contexts. 2. Skills (including transferable [generic] skills): By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Make appropriate and reflexive use of critical tools and theoretical approaches in their own work, using a nuanced critical vocabulary. - Discuss the relationship between theory and practice in the contexts of their own and others’ professional experience. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings - Horne, D. 1984. The Great Museum: The Re-Presentation of History. London: Pluto Press. Available in UOM Library: D299.H67 - Boylan, P.J. 1992. Museums 2000: Politics, People, Professionals, and Profit. London: Museums Association in conjunction with Routledge. Available in UOM Library: AM121.M89 - Vergo, P. (ed.) 1989. The New Museology. London: Reaktion Books. UOM Library: On order - Fyfe, G., Hetherington, K. & Pearce, S.M. (eds.) 2002. The Museum and Society. New York: Continuum. UOM Library: On Order - Lowenthal, D. 1998. The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Available in UOM Library: D16.9.L682 - Gathercole, P.W. & Lowenthal, D. (eds.) 1994. The Politics of the Past. London: Routledge. 2 copies available in UOM Library: CC175.P65 (one in SLC) - Lowenthal, D. 1985. The Past Is a Foreign Country. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Available in UOM Library: D16.8.L682 (SLC) - Chaney ,E. 1998. The Evolution of the Grand Tour: Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations Since the Renaissance. London: Frank Cass. Available in UOM Library: DA47.9.I8C45 - Duncan, C. 1995. Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums. London: Routledge. Available at Junior College: 708 DUN |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Visit and Seminar | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Carmel Cassar (Co-ord.) Glen Farrugia Reuben Grima Theresa Vella |
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