New Trends in Presenting Cultural History in Museums

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New trends in museum and exhibition design are discussed in a course which also seeks to teach students how to apply these trends to their own creative visions.

In this course students will be exposed to new trends in museum design ranging from bold new aesthetic visions, various forms of public involvement and the use of innovative virtual realities using examples from the Museums on Berlin´s Museum Island, London, in particular the Tate Museums, Paris in particular the Louvre and Musée d’Orsay, New York in particular the MoMa, Whitney and Metropolitan and various on-site locations worldwide. Moreover, holistic exhibition visions from artists such as Olaflur Eliason and Theo Jansen will also figure in these lectures. These lectures will be interspersed with practical guides on how to apply innovative design to small-scale and small budget venues and accompanied by students composing their own exhibition strategies. This will, I hope, help students to realize their visions in the often challenging first steps of their careers as cultural presenters and managers. The presentation of these designs in the form of power point or PDF documents at the end of the semester accompanied by an oral explanation will be the basis of the evaluation.

Student activity / workload in hours:

Participation in lectures: 30 hours

Preparation for lectures and exam: 60 hours

Total hours: 90 hours = 3 ECTS

Cogeval Guy and Xavier Rey. 2014. Musée d'Orsay: capolavori Paris: Skira.

Dercon, Chris and ‎Nicholas Serota. 2016. Tate Modern: Building a Museum for the 21st Century

Eliasson, Olafur. 2016. Unspoken Spaces. London/New York: Thames & Hudson.

Herzog, Lena and Theo Jansen. 2006. Strandbeest: The Dream Machines of Theo Jansen. Frankfurt: Taschen.

Hughes, Philip. 2015. Exhibition Design: An Introduction. London: Laurence King Publishing.

Kane, ‎ Elizabeth and Brett Ashley Crawford. 2018. The Augmented Museum: Essays on Opportunities and Uses of AugmentedReality in Museums. Pittsburg: ETC Press.

Macleod, Suzanne. 2005. Reshaping Museum Space: Architecture, Design, Exhibitions. London: Taylor & Francis.

Miller, Dana. 2015. Whitney Museum of American Art: Handbook of the Collection: Whitney: Museum of American Art.

Mola, Francesc Zamora. 2011. Affordable Exhibition Design. New York: HarperCollins.

Student:

- will know and understand the basic terminology and will have a organized basic knowledge of archeology, cultural anthropology, history, art history, monuments and conservation, geology and geography,

- will have basic knowledge of the relationship between archeology and other fields of science,

- will have basic knowledge of contemporary museums and cultural institutions, and will be oriented in contemporary cultural life,

- will have basic knowledge of the theoretical foundations of cultural heritage management, ways of its interpretation and popularization,

- will be aware of the transdisciplinarity of knowledge in the field of archeology and cultural heritage management and will understands the need for continuous self-education in this field.

Lectures are conducted in the form of e-learning in MS-Teams.

Conditions for completing the classes:

1. active participation in classes (possible two absences, the third - even excused, requires additional written work).

2. Oral presentation of PowerPoint /PDF of a virtual exhibition at the end of the semester.

Conditions for obtaining a specific grade:

- 2 - student has no basic knowledge of new trends in presenting cultural history in museums,

- 3 - student has basic knowledge of new trends in presenting cultural history in museums,

- 4 - student has deepened knowledge of new trends in presenting cultural history in museums and is able to formulate opinions and discuss a given topic,

- 5 - student has deepened and detailed knowledge of new trends in presenting cultural history in museums and is able to formulate opinions and discuss a given topic.

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