Heritage Culture and Museology

Base Knowledge

N/A

Teaching Methodologies

The teaching of the program will involve TP (34h) and PL (17h) classes, occurring during the semester the presentation of the syllabus in the classroom by the teacher, requesting the collaboration of the student and promoting group work, the organization of study visit/s followed by the elaboration of reports by the student, the organization of a work assignment under the guidance of the teacher. The assessment is organized according to the academic regulations of the 1st study cycle of IPC. In this sense, continuous assessment will be based on the organization, by the student, of practical work inside or outside the classroom (15%); a written test (35%) and the organization of a work and its oral presentation (50%). Assessment by examination will be based on the completion of a written test-100%.

Learning Results

1. Understanding the concepts of Museology and Museography
2.Knowing the evolution that has occurred within museums since the appearance of the public museum
3. Understanding the importance of a museum as a cultural and educational resource
4. To understand the relevance of financial resources in a locality 5.Knowing specificities of cultural and natural heritage management
6. Knowing principles underlying the Common Heritage of Humanity
7. Know methodological strategies that enable local studies
8. Understand the importance of heritage as a means of stimulating activities within the scope of socio-educational animation.

Program

1. Principles underlying the organization and dynamization of a Museum
1.1 The concepts of Museology and Museography
1.2 The Museum from the past to our days
1.3 Broadening the concept of museological heritage
1.4 Relevance of endogenous resources in the conception of a Museum
1.5 Functions of the Museum according to Law No. 47/2004
1.6. Forms of valuation and dissemination of museological heritage
2. Heritage values and the ability of the population in the use of their resources
2.1 Heritage resources and legal instruments for heritage protection
2.2. The Common Heritage of Humanity as a way of self-esteem of a community
2.3. Ways of animating the local heritage: case study(s)
3. Methodological strategies that enable the knowledge of a community
3.1 Techniques for collecting and processing ethnographic information
4. Strategies for dynamization of a museum / heritage site through activities of socio-educational animation

Curricular Unit Teachers

Grading Methods

Exam
  • - Exam - 100.0%
Continuing Evaluation
  • - Frequency - 35.0%
  • - Laboratory work or Field work - 15.0%
  • - Individual and/or Group Work - 50.0%

Internship(s)

NAO

Bibliography

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LOPES, F. & CORREIA, M. B. (2004). Património arquitectónico e arqueológico. Cartas, Recomendações e Convenções Internacionais.  Livros Horizonte.

DIREÇÃO GERAL DO PATRIMÓNIO CULTURAL (s.d.). Cartas e Convenções internacionais sobre  Património. http://www.patrimoniocultural.gov.pt/pt/patrimonio/cartas-e-convencoes-internacionais-sobre-patrimonio/

MAGALHÃES, F. (2005). Museus, Património e Identidade. Ritualidade, Educação, Conservação, Pesquisa, Exposição. Proedições.

MENDES, J. A. (2009). Estudos do Património. Museus e Educação. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra.

MESTRE, J. S. M & CARDONA, F.X.H (Dirs.) (2010). Conceptualizando la nueva museografia. Her&Mus  4. Trea.

NAVARRO, M. S.  & RIERA, R. G. (2012). Museo y comunidad. un museo para todos los públicos. Trea.

PIÑOL, C. (2013). Manual del Centro de Interpretatión. Trea.