2025

Museums and Collections as the history of science object

Name: Museums and Collections as the history of science object
Code: HIS09382D
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

Identify reference to international literature on museums and collections; Analyze the museum as a historical source on the ideas, sensibilities, tastes, values, representations and scientific knowledge of an era; Framing the museum within the city, assessing the interactions with the urban spaces and museum activities; historically contextualize the museum and scientific movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; characterize the philosophical journeys within naturalism economic eighteenth; Understand the major international exhibitions century. XIX and the assertion of nationalism through science and technology; Identify museum exhibition presentation of science in the contemporary world; characterize and distinguish the different generations of science museums; enumerate and characterize the main equipment museum Portuguese and international outreach and education in science .

Contents

Constitution of the disciplinary field
Cultures of Natural Sciences
Objects, collecting, collectors
Travel, catalogs and exhibitions
Expansion of the museums in the nineteenth century
Metropolitans Museum
The Movement of the Americas Museum
Scientific exchanges, trade and professional

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, museum studies and educational function of museums.