30509 - Museology and Collecting (LM)

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Docente: Marinella Pigozzi
  • Credits: 12
  • SSD: L-ART/04
  • Language: Italian

Learning outcomes

The student will pursue knowledge regarding the preservation and valorization of artistic traditions, the protection and preservation of Italian cultural heritage often specific to historical site and the protection of the environment .

Course contents

Course contents

The museum in the history and today. Preserving, cataloging, communicating, engaging, enhancing are the guidelines of museums and libraries. Raising the awareness, protection, conservation, enhancement of the widespread cultural heritage, and investigating involvement strategies, including the use of new media, are the purposes of the course.

Readings/Bibliography

Readings/Bibliography

C.F. Neickel, Museografia, cura e saggi di M. Pigozzi, E. Giuliani, A. Huber, traduzione e note di E. Giovannini, Bologna, Clueb, 2005.

R. Gioia-M. Pigozzi, Federico Zeri e la tutela del patrimonio culturale italiano, Bologna, Clueb, 2006.

M. Haxhiraj, Ulisse Aldrovandi il Museografo, Bologna, BUP, 2016

M.Pigozzi, Strategie guglielmine per le gallerie e I musei di Germania. Il ruolo di Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929) per la rivisitazione del Rinascimento, in DIALOGO TRA ITALIA E GERMANIA.Arte, Letteratura, Musica, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2017, pp.101-115.

One book to be chosen among the following:

L. Cataldo, M. Paraventi, Il museo oggi, Milano, Hoepli, 2007;

M. T. Fiorio, Il museo nella storia. Dallo studiolo alla raccolta pubblica, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2011;

V. Falletti, M. Maggi, I musei, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012.

All texts are available in the Library “I.B. Supino”

For non-attending students: a foreign museum and one of the following institutions in Bologna. Students shall visit it, showing the history of architecture, settings and collections, communication strategies and engagement. Students are required to submit a CD with their Power Point presentation to the attention of the teacher at the Department or sent by e-mail at least a week before the examination:

Museo Civico Archeologico,

Musei di Palazzo Poggi,

Museo Civico Medievale,

Collezioni di Palazzo Comunale,

Museo Davia Bargellini,

Pinacoteca Nazionale,

MAMBO,

Museo della Tappezzeria.

 

Teaching methods

Lectures, visits and study trips with the involvement of experts in the direction and management of museums, archives and restoration workshops.

Assessment methods

Oral examination. Students will be assessed on their learning outcomes only through an interview to verify the acquisition of the knowledge and skills expected. The interview aims to evaluate the critical and methodological capabilities acquired by the students, who will be invited to confront the visited museums with the texts and examples discussed during the course. Particularly evaluated it will be the students' ability to move within the sources and the bibliographic material finding useful information in them to illustrate the cultural context of the discipline in dialogue with the arts and the strategies of conservation and communication. It will be assessed as excellent the performance of those students showing an organic vision of the topics dealt with in lectures and in the study trips combined with a critical use of the same and the possession of a proper specific language.

IN ADDITION TO THE APPROPRIATE KNOWLEDGE OF THE RECOMMENDED TEXTS, IT WILL BE ASSESSED THE AUTONOMOUS REFLECTION CAPACITY AND THE CRITICAL MATURITY OF EXPOSURE

 

 

Teaching tools

The first lectures will be held in classroom, followed by visits to museums, public and private galleries, restoration workshops, photo archives.

 

Link

http://intreccidarte.unibo.it [http://intreccidarte.unibo.it/]

 

See web

 www.unibo.it/sitoweb/marinella.pigozzi

 

Links to further information

http://intreccidarte.unibo.it

Office hours

See the website of Marinella Pigozzi