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2017 SECOND OPEN ROUND TABLE OF MUSEOLOGY IN https://doi.org/10.5817/MuB2018-2-8

BARBORA KOPECKÁ

On 3–6 December 2017, the of Graz hosted the second “Open Round Table of Museology” project. It was an international meeting of students and pedagogues who were concerned with the same topic – museology.

The project is taking place under the auspices of the UNESCO Chair of Museology and World Heritage in and the Department of History, . It is supported by the AKTION - programme and it has been realised since 2016. Among the most important project goals is the effort to initiate meetings in the form of student workshops, professional excursions, lectures and discussion Fig. 1: Photo: Sabine Zambo, University of Graz, 2017. forums, which are intended for student experts, teachers as well as the professional community. These meetings are focused on the problem of museology and museum work. The pilot project titled Open Round Table of Museology, which took place for the first time in Brno 2016, found a very good response among students and pedagogues and it logically produced another interesting topics which are worth being treated by students in international aspects of the Czech- -Austrian museological tradition.1

The second year of the Open Round Table of Museology project was dedicated to the problem

Fig. 2: Photo: Sabine Zambo, University of Graz, 2017. 1 MRÁZOVÁ, Lenka and Bernadette BIEDERMANN. Open round table of museology: international live discussion of students and experts on museology. Museologica Brunensia, 2017, vol. 6, no. 1. ISSN 1805-4722.

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of Interpretation in museology museums. Afterwards a student in the previously established and museum work. Educational workshop has taken place, where international teams. The students programmes at both of the partner the students of the Masaryk presented their topics, exchanged resulted again in an University and the University of their experiences and opinions. international meeting, which Graz were divided into several took place in December 2017, groups. The goal of the workshop The programme ended this time in Graz, Austria. An was to choose a topic regarding on 6 December 2017 with informal meeting, where students the museum interpretation and a presentation of selected topics and pedagogues got acquainted mutual cooperation of students by individual international student with one another and held a free from both the universities involved. groups. After a very interesting discussion, helped to build At the end of the day an excursion and stimulating discussion, the friendships and exchange practical was undertaken to the University participating students from both experiences. Museum in Graz, where the universities received certificates participants could see not only the of honour. The second year of the The official programme was opened permanent displays but also an Open Round Table of Museology on 4 December 2017 by Anton exhibition dedicated to the Bible. project was successfully finished. Weinmann from the Department An immense gratitude goes to all of History, University of Graz, who The programme on the next day who helped to bring the project presented his opening speech titled began with a speech by Lenka into being. Museum and Identity. After him Mrázová from the UNESCO Chair followed Bernadette Biedermann, of Museology and World Heritage also from the Department of titled Interpretation of Difficult History, University of Graz, who Histories. Afterwards followed BARBORA KOPECKÁ paid attention to the problem of a speech by Barbora Svátková from interpretation in museums as an the Brno City Museum on the topic museology student, Department object of Austrian history in her of Interpretation and Art. In the of Archaeology and Museology, speech titled Museum interpretation afternoon a student workshop has Faculty of Arts, , using the example of Austrian history taken place again, this time already Brno, Czech Republic

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