COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HISTORY OF MUSEUMS AND MUSEOLOGY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MZC 1004 HISTORY OF MUSEUMS AND MUSEOLOGY COMPULSORY 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Museology

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR REMZI YAĞCI

Offered to

Museology

Course Objective

The history of museums amd museology that dates back to the third millenium BC in Mesopotamia will be taught in parts: Near East (Mesopotamia, Iran, Anatolia and Egypt), Hellenistic and Roman, Ottoman and European histories in order to encompass the whole history of the world museums.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students acquire knowledge on the cultures of collecting and exhibiting from different parts of the world.
2   Students learn about the concepts of "mousa" and "mouseion" that were born in the ancient Aegean
3   Students examine the issues of Roman replicas, collections and reproductions
4   First archaeological and museum endeavours in the Renaissance period are taught
5   Students examine Western archaeological endeavours, collections and museums
6   Museum related activities in the Ottoman period and Republican museology are also taught

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Basic concepts: Collection, archives, museum, exhibition
2 First collections in History and Anxiety for Exhibiting
3 Mousa (muses), Mouseion and Pinakothek in Ancient Greeks
4 Collecting in Rome
5 Collecting in Rome and the industry of replicas
6 Passion for collecting in the Renaissance
7 First Exhibitions in the Renaissance
8 Midterm
9 Cultural quests towards world museology: Winckelman
10 Collections of British Musem and Louvre
11 Museum constructions in the West
12 Müze-i Hümayun and Ottoman Museums
13 Archaeological sites, excavation sites and first museums in the Aegean region
14 Museology in the Republican Period
15 Modern Museology
16 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

-Geoffrey Lewis, The history of museums, Encyclopaedia Britannica
-Tony Bennet, The Birth of The Museum History, theory, politics, London-New York 1996.
-Nancy H. Ramage, Restorer and Collector: Notes on Eighteenth-Century Recreations of Roman Statues , Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Supplementary Volumes, Vol. 1, The Ancient Art of Emulation: Studies in Artistic Originality and Tradition from the Present to Classical Antiquity (2002), s:61-77.
-Ian Jenkins, Acquisition and Supply of Casts of the Parthenon Sculptures by the British Museum, 1835-1939 , The Annual of the British School at Athens, Vol. 85 (1990), s: 89-114.
- Anne Gombault, Company Profile: Organizational Saga of a Superstar Museum: The Louvre , International Journal of Arts Management, Vol. 4, No. 3 (SPRING 2002), s: 72-84.
-Wendy Shaw, Possessors and Possessed Museums, Archaeology, and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire, California University Press 2003.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentations
Lectures
Question-Answer Session
Library Work

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Multiple choice and essay type questions

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Attendance (70%) is obligatory

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

remzi.yagci@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 7 7
Preparation for final exam 1 7 7
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 100

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.13545
LO.2
LO.334
LO.444
LO.5
LO.655

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