Publication details
Brno museology in the context of museological thinking in the 2nd half of the 20th century
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The study presented is dealing with the origins of the Brno Chair of Museology resulting from the development and traditions of museums in the Bohemian lands (which were institutionalised in academic environment in the 1920s already, when the Lectorate in Museum Studies was founded) and the cultural situation in the then Czechoslovakia, considerably influenced by communistic ideology. Afterwards it analyses the founding process itself and further development tightly associated with the Moravian Museum in Brno, and outlines the specialisation of the institution under review in the context of national (Centre for Museology Tuition, Cabinet of Museum and Local History – Prague) and foreign (Zagreb, Leipzig, Moscow, Amsterdam) museological centres. It also pays attention to two most significant personalities (Z. Z. Stránský, J. Jelínek), who gave the institution a clear and quite specific character. It will mainly assess their role in building up the museological theory based on a specific human relation to reality, which until today fundamentally influences the attitude to the museum phenomenon. Also discussed will be the participation in management (ICOM) and founding (ICOFOM) of international professional associations, within which the museological questions became topic of many discussions and polemics, or specific actions of international significance, which included the publishing of a professional periodical Muzeologické sešity, establishment of the Summer School of Museology and the UNESCO Chair of Museology and World Heritage, which were closely linked with the Brno museology. The text also pays attention to educational activities of the Chair of Museology or the Museology Section in Brno, and analyses the cultural changes of their curricula during the 1960s and 1990s following the distinct political and cultural changes in the then society. |
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