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Heritage Museum and Management - Concept, Planning and Presentation

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Course Type Course Code No. Of Credits
Foundation Core MAHM- HRM2AM112 / MCPHM- HRM2CP112 4

Semester and Year Offered:  Semester: III

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Pre-requisites: None

(This course envisages wide range of scientific and critical knowledge on architectural science and its historic progression)

Objectives of the course:

  1. Detailed study of museum as an institution for heritage management. Study on the history of museums, museology as an academic discipline and museography as set of information on museum techniques.
  2. Developing understanding of New Museum theories and practices and their multiple facts as Eco-museums, Neighbourhood Museums and Living History Museums.
  3. Understanding museum functions such as collection methods, methods of display and practices conservation of museum objects.

Learning Outcomes:

  1. Understanding the institutional role of museums and their techniques in conservation, preservation and display of heritage objects and cultural properties.
  2. Training on museographic methods like holography, anemometrics, animation, audio-visuals, etc., in display.
  3. Training in organizing thematic and educational exhibitions, their planning and presentation with communication-oriented approach.
  4. Training in documentation of antiquities, viz., inventorization, making Index-card, comprehensive catalogues, micro-filming and digitization.

Modules:

  1. Museum Theories, History and Antiquarian Laws: This module provides systematic information on origin and development of museums, universal museums, museum theories, principles, guidelines and ethics evolved by International Council of Museums.
  2. Heritology and Living History Museums: It offers a wide dimension of the changing concept of museums in the world from the Euro-centric model to museums without walls, such as New Museums, Eco-museums and Community Museums.
  3. Dynamic Functions of Museums: It is the study of new museum techniques, diorama, holography, video-walls, touch screen computers, etc., that ensure a display creating simulated effect on spectators. Apart from display it emphasizes on collection management in museums.
  4. Preventive Conservation: This module deals with control of light, temperature and humidity in a museum to check deterioration of museum objects. It elaborately discusses various tools and technologies that are used for conservation management in a museum.

Indian Knowledge System:

Being repository of culture objects, this paper helps in developing practical understanding of Indian art, aesthetic, taxonomy of objects. It exhibits intangible traditions of India in form of visual reconstructions. It helps in understanding iconography based on Shilpasastra.

Consolidated Reading List:

  • Alexander E.P. 1979. Museums in Motion: An Introduction to History and Function of Museums. Nashville.
  • Alexander, E.P. (ed.) 1995. Museum Masters: Their Museums and their influence, New Delhi.
  • Ambrose, T. & C. Paine. 1993. Museum Basics, ICOM, London & New York.
  • Belcher, M. 1991. Exhibition in Museums Washington D.C.
  • Brawne, M. 1965. The New Museum: Architecture and Display. New York.
  • Burdhan, Anand. 2010. Rediscovering Indian Museology and Conservation. Sandeep Prakashan. Delhi.
  • Burdhan, Anand. 2016. Museological Pedagogy: Colonial Politics Versus People’s Museography. Research India Press. Delhi.
  • Burdhan, Anand. 2018. Colonial Museums: An Inner History. Research India Press. Delhi.
  • Case, H. (ed.). 1988. Registrars on Record: Essays on Museum Collection Management. Washington.
  • Davis, P. 1999. Eco museums, London.
  • Dean, D, 1998. Museum Exhibition: Theory and Practice, London & New York.
  • Edson, G. & D. Dean. The Handbook for Museums, London & New York
  • Fahy, A.(ed.) 1999. Collection Management, London & New York
  • Glaser, Jane R. & A.A. Zenetou. 2000 (re.). Museums: A Place to Work Planning Museum Careers, London & New York.
  • Hooper-Greenhill, E (ed) 1999. The Educational Role of Museum, London & New York.
  • Kavanagh, G. (ed.) 1999. Museum Provision and Professionalism, London & New York.
  • Keene, S. 1990. Managing Conservation. London.
  • Knell, S.(ed.) 2000 (re.). Care of Collection, London & New York.
  • Light, R.B., Roberts, D.A. & J.D. Steward (eds.) 1986. Museum Documentation Systems: Developments and Applications. London.
  • Lord, B. & Herd, G.D. (ed.). 1983. Planning our Museums. Ottawa.
  • Macdonold, S.(ed), 1999. The Politics of Display, London & New York.
  • Pearce, S. M.(ed.) 1999. Interpreting Objects and Collections, London & NewYork
  • Pearce, S.M. (ed.) 1989. Museum Studies in Material Culture. Leicester.
  • Pearce, S.M. 1990. Archaeological Curatorship. Leicester.
  • Plenderleith, H.J. & Werner A.E.A. 1971. The Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Arts, London.
  • Punja, S. 1998. Museums of India, Penguin, New Delhi.
  • Sarkar, H. 1981. Museums and Protection of Monuments and Antiquities in India, New Delhi.
  • Singh, A. P. 1987. Conservation & Museum Techniques. New Delhi.
  • Stolow, N. 1979. Conservation Standards for works of Art in Transit and on Exhibition. Paris.
  • Stolow, N. 1987. Conservation and Exhibition: Packing, Transport, Storage and Environmental Consideration. London.

Journals:

  • Journals of Indian Museums.2015. Vol. LXIX. Museums Association of India. Delhi.
  • Journals of Indian Museums.2012. Vol. LXVI. Museums Association of India. Delhi.
  • Journals of Indian Museums.2023. Vol. LXXIV. Museums Association of India. Delhi.
  • Journals of Indian Museums.2021. Vol. LXXIII. Museum Association of India. Delhi.
  • Journals of Indian Museums.2013. Vol. LXVII. Museum Association of India. Delhi.
  • Journals of Indian Museums.2015. Vol. LXIX. Museum Association of India. Delhi
  • Journals of Indian Museums.2012. Vol. LXVI. Museum Association of India. Delhi
  • Journals of Indian Museums.2023. Vol. LXXIV. Museum Association of India. Delhi
  • Journals of Indian Museums.2021. Vol. LXXIII. Museum Association of India. Delhi
  • Journals of Indian Museums.2013. Vol. LXVII. Museum Association of India. Delhi
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