85453 - Museology, Museography and Virtual Environments (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

When an asset is musealized, it needs special processes. It has to be recognized, it has to be cured, and it needs special care before and after its entrance in the Museum. In this course museography and museology will be described as all the theory and practice of the care and interpretation of heritage. A very special point of view will be granted to all the computational processes involved to the discipline, with a focus on virtual museum, and digital curation.

Course contents

• Museology, definition of museum and differences between Museums, Libraries, Archies and Galleries
• the essence of curation, and of digital curation
• history of multimedia
• definition of virtual museum
• taxonomy of different kinds of virtual museums
• museum communication: theory and practive
• focus on international use case and museum practice
• long time preservation
• digital exhibitions

Readings/Bibliography

a first list of useful resources:

1. Caraceni, S. (2015). Designing a taxonomy for virtual museums https://collections.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/9915
2. Rinehart, R., & Ippolito, J. (2014). Re-collection: Art, new media, and social memory. MIT Press https://mitpress.mit.edu/re-collection

other resources will be shared in the AMS Campus repository with the class

Teaching methods

The course is composed of classroom lessons, exercises in the laboratory, and the designing of a personal or team project

Assessment methods

The final examination consists on two parts:

• the discussion of some topics of the course,
• the discussion of an original project work, about a virtual museum or virtual exhibition that the student will create during the course.

The original project work can be presented by a single student or a group of students. The personal contribution of each member of a group has to be assessed during the oral colloquium, when the project will be presented.

The final evaluation of the student is based on the scores gained for each of the aforementioned points. In particular:

• excellent evaluation: reaching an in-depth view of all the course topics by discussing the project work with a strong awareness and developing a project following all the principles and guidelines provided to the student during the lectures;
• sufficient evaluation: reaching a partial view of the course topics shown with the discussion of the project work and providing a minor contribution to the development of the project;
• insufficient evaluation: either not reaching even partial view on the course topics and presenting a resource largely discussed during the course or not providing any contribution to the project.

Teaching tools

Classes are held in a classroom equipped with personal computers connected to the Intranet and Internet.

There will be a repository of useful resources for all the students.

Office hours

See the website of Simona Caraceni