2025
Museums, Education and Scientific Culture
Name: Museums, Education and Scientific Culture
Code: HIS09379D
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
History and Philosophy of Science
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Establish relationships between disciplinary history and the collections of museums and cultural history; Understand the museum as an institution central culture; Analyse the museum as a historical source on the ideas, sensibilities, tastes, values, representations and scientific knowledge of a time; Framing the museum within the city, assessing the interactions with the urban spaces and museum activities; Identify museum exhibition presentation sciences; characterize and distinguish the different generations of science museums, enumerate and characterize the main equipment Portuguese disclosure museum and science education; Understanding the genesis of the movement against the cultural institutions in the Western world during the decades of 60 and 70 century. XX; evaluate the reasons for the symbolic and institutional crisis of the museum in contemporary societies.
Contents
One. Museology as cultural history
2nd. Investigate in Museology - method, concepts and sources
3rd. Museums and education - a historical perspective: relations with the disciplinary history of collecting, museums and museology. Education as museological function.
4th. The semantic evolution of modern museum and its setting in the Enlightenment.
5th. The Renaissance and Early Modern Period (XV-XVII centuries)
6th. The chambers of wonders
7th. The wonderful and magical
Eight. The encyclopedic spirit
9th. University reforms and new museums and scientific equipment
10. Art and antiquity - museum, heritage and arts education
11. Challenge of Vanguards Museum (Artists, Architects, Writers)
12. Museums and social distinction. The innate (the 'predestination' a 'grace' and 'gift') and acquired.
13. Evolution and scope of the museum concept.
14. Science centers and movement "hands on".
15. Museum of Science and Technology, Science Centers, Planetariums, Museums of Natural History.
2nd. Investigate in Museology - method, concepts and sources
3rd. Museums and education - a historical perspective: relations with the disciplinary history of collecting, museums and museology. Education as museological function.
4th. The semantic evolution of modern museum and its setting in the Enlightenment.
5th. The Renaissance and Early Modern Period (XV-XVII centuries)
6th. The chambers of wonders
7th. The wonderful and magical
Eight. The encyclopedic spirit
9th. University reforms and new museums and scientific equipment
10. Art and antiquity - museum, heritage and arts education
11. Challenge of Vanguards Museum (Artists, Architects, Writers)
12. Museums and social distinction. The innate (the 'predestination' a 'grace' and 'gift') and acquired.
13. Evolution and scope of the museum concept.
14. Science centers and movement "hands on".
15. Museum of Science and Technology, Science Centers, Planetariums, Museums of Natural History.
Teaching Methods
Commented reading of texts. Construction of individual projects reading from thematic options of each student. Presentation of 'case studies' by invited lecturers, experts in diverse scientific fields: physics, geology and biology botany - linking scientific area museums and scientific typology. Individual assessment from demonstrated ability in each session, critical analysis and evaluation of text-based interface between science, museology and educational function of museums.
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