AH/CU/MU 350 MUSEUMS AND HERITAGE: MANAGEMENT, CONSERVATION AND DISSEMINATION OF COLLECTIONS AND CULTURAL PATRIMONY IES Abroad Paris BIA – – Madrid

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The course will provide a broad overview of past and current strategies adopted to preserve, enhance and communicate cultural heritage. Through an interdisciplinary approach mixing museology, history and art history, management and sociology, this course will allow students to understand and appreciate the way museums preserve, develop, study and communicate their collection for the benefit of the public, but also how the European museums are financed and managed, what are their similarities and differences with American museums, and how major challenges facing museums in the 21st century could be faced. The program offers a unique opportunity to examine how three major European capitals, closely linked with the museum world, have developed a major network of museums in order to enhance their cultural lives.

CREDITS: 3

LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: English

PREREQUISITES: None

ADDITIONAL COST: None

METHOD OF PRESENTATION: Lectures, class discussions, course-related trips to monuments, museums and archaeological sites

REQUIRED WORK AND FORMS OF ASSESSMENT: Paris Portion: 25% • Class participation: 10% • Daily comment on visit (Journal): 40% • Paris City Exam: 50%

Rome Portion: 25% • Class participation: 10% • Daily comment on visit (Journal): 40% • Rome City Exam: 50%

Madrid Portion: 25% • Class participation: 10% • Daily comment on visit (Journal): 40% • Madrid City Exam: 50% Cumulative Final Paper: 25% The final paper will be a cumulative, take-home essay. It should be turned into Moodle. Work will be assessed on the basis of students’ visual observations, mastery of course material, and critical interventions. Students will receive an assessment for their work in each city. Each city assessment will account for 25% of the overall final grade.

Here are the instructions for the final paper: Please respond to the following prompt in a 6-8 page paper double-spaced. There should be at least 6 pages of text and 2 pages of images – What is the role of museums in contemporary society?

LEARNING OUTCOMES: By the end of the course students will be able to: • Link the development of the heritage institutions and museum phenomenon in the cities of Paris, Rome and Madrid, in relation with their world development • Understand and recognize the different parts of museum functions and activities • Identify museographical style within museum exhibitions • Identify the different types of museums considering their financing model, and the activities related with the sources of financing. • Appreciate the different challenges museums face in the 21st century and how they practically answer to them • Appreciate the complex national and international legislation that governs European cultural heritage • Define problems, strategies and solutions concerning conservation of cultural heritage

ATTENDANCE POLICY: Attendance is mandatory for all IES Abroad classes, including course-related trips. If a student misses more than two class in this course, 2 percentage points will be deducted from the final grade for every additional absence. Exams, tests, presentations, or other work missed due to student absences can only be rescheduled in cases of documented medical or family emergencies. IES Abroad will only consider extreme emergency cases and will strictly adhere to this policy.

Session Content Readings PARIS Session 1 Introduction to a History of museums Readings: • Carol Duncan and Alan Wallach, “The Universal Survey The 2 functions of the museum: Museum”, in Museum Studies, An Anthology of Contexts, • Collecting and conserving Second Edition, edited by Bettina M. Carbonell, Wiley • Education Blackwell, 1980, pp. 448-457 • Dominique Poulot, "Another history of museums: from the Musée du Louvre discourse to the museum-piece"

All students are required to post journal entries on Moodle. For these journal entries you will need to: • On the readings: Find 3 important points in the assigned texts (for each text). Then summarize each of these points in 5 lines. • Write a paragraph (1 page) on a major point discussed or seen in class. Session 2 Analyze onsite: Musée d’Orsay Reading: Wallach, "The Louvre" in “The Universal Survey Museum”, in Museum Studies, An Anthology of Contexts, Second Edition, edited by Bettina M. Carbonell, Wiley Blackwell, 1980, pp. 457-467 (+ the footnotes if you need)

Session 3 Collecting and conserving: The Orangerie and the National Museum of Modern Art

• The history • Understand and recognize the different parts of museum function and activities • Defining the collection and its conservation

Examination of the display of the collection Session 4 Comparative Museum Visits

• Montparnasse: The Artists’ Studio- Museum • Atelier Musée Bourdelle • Atelier Zadkin • Atelier Giacometti Session 5 IES ABROAD PARIS - City Exam

ROME

Session 6 and the management of cultural • Compendium of cultural policies heritage http://www.culturalpolicies.net/web/p rofiles- cr.php?pcid=1250&aid=1 • National legislation and public • International institutions, selected documents institutions from: http://www.iccrom.org/about/what- • Administrative structure of MiBACT is-iccrom/; http://icom.museum/the- (Ministero Beni e Attività Culturali) organisation/ • Local museums and sites • Key Concepts of Museology (PDF), • European Union framework http://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1446 • The private sector (FAI) /76425 • International institutions for • European Commission, Study on Audience cultural heritage in Italy: UNESCO, Development, www.engageaudiences.eu ICCROM, ICOM • Riegl, A., The Modern Cult of Monuments, its essence and its development, in Stanley Price, N. et al. Preservation and Conservation editors, Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Italian tradition of excellence in conservation: Conservation of Cultural Heritage. Readings in Istituto Centrale del Restauro and other Conservation, the Getty Conservation Institute, Los conservation institutions Angeles, 1996, PP. 69-83. • Philippot, P., Restauration from the Perspective of Humanities, in Stanley Price, N. et al. editors, Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage. Readings in Conservation, the Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, 1996, PP.216-228; • Brandi, C., Theory of Restoration, in Stanley Price, N. et al. editors, Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage. Readings in Conservation, the Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, 1996, PP.230-235. Session 7 Museo Nazionale Romano • La Regina, A. (Editor), Museo Nazionale Romano. Museum Catalogue, Electa, Rome, 2007, pp. 10-105 The largest national archaeological museum in Italy Session 8 The Roman Houses of Palazzo Valentini • https://www.palazzovalentini.it/domus-romane/index-en.html • Archaelogy • Le Domus Romane di Palazzo Valentini - The Roman Domus at • Reconstructions Valentini - a cura di Roberto Del Signore, Arbor • Exhibitions Sapientiae, 2016 Session 9 Vatican Museum’s Conservation Labs • Melucco Vaccaro, A., The Role of Science and Technology, in Stanley Price, N. et al. editors, Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage. Readings in Conservation, the Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, 1996, PP. 424-431; • Urbani, G., The Science and Art of Conservation of Cultural Property, in Stanley Price, N. et al. editors, Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage. Readings in Conservation, the Getty Conservation

Session 10 Museum Management in Italy • Boylan P. (coord.), Running a Museum; a practical handbook, Paris, ICOM/Unesco, 2006 • From museum to museum • Museum Systems in Italy: system https://www.aspeninstitute.it/en/system/files/private_file • (National) superstars and (local) s/2013- 11/doc/Museum%20Systems.pdf; satellite museums • The University System of the Università di Bologna: • Financing Italian museums http://www.unibo.it/en/university/campuses-and- • Statistics on the management of structures/university-museum-system-sma; cultural heritage • E Monod, E., Klein, HK., From ehertitage to interpretive Enhancement archaeology systems (IAS): a research framework for • Developing communication and evaluating cultural heritage communication in the digital technology for the age, in ECIS 2005 Proceedings, 2005 - aisel.aisnet.org enhancement of cultural (PDF); heritage • E Pantano, A Tavernise, Learning cultural heritage through information and communication technologies: a case : Night show study, in International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development, 2009, pp.103-119; Session 11 IES ABROAD ROME CENTER – City Exam

MADRID Session 12 Museum Basics • Lanzarote J.M. “Crown, Church and People: History • Heritage and Museum Legal System of National Museums in Spain”. Patrimonio Nacional http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/064/035/ecp64035.pdf • History of Spanish Museums • Museums of the Ministry of Culture • Museums of Autonomous Communities • Ethics for museums Session 13 The National Archeological Museum • Diaz-Andreu, M. “Archaeology and nationalism in From 19th century building to the New Spain”. Kohl, Philip L., Fawcett, C. (2000), Politics and Museum. the Practice of Archaeology. Cambridge University Press

Session 14 The Thyssen- Bornemisza Museum • (2012) Guide to The Collection. Thyssen-Bornemisza • From the Thyssen Collection to Museum. Ed. Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza. Thyssen Museum: an “American” model in Europe • El Paseo del Arte (Art Walk)

Session 15 The House-Museum of Lope de Vega • Pavon, R. (2001) “Towards a definition and typology • The musealization of House- of historic house museums”. Historic house Museums museums. Museum International. Vol LIII, nº2. • Methods for the historic house UNESCO museum to maintain their relevance • http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001229/12 in changing society 2989e.pdf

Session 16 Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. • Martín, C (et al.) (2010). The Collection. Museo • The “Sabatini” Palace Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Keys to a • The New “Reina Sofía” by Jean Reading (Part I). Ed. La Central/Museo Reina Sofía. Nouvel http://www.museoreinasofia.es/en • A new Museum of Contemporary Art in Spain

Session 17 National Museum of Natural Sciences. • Valdecasas, A.G. (Et al.) (2006) “Museums at the • Museums as Research Center crossroad: Contributing to dialogue, curiosity • A collection of over 8 million and wonder in natural history museums”. specimens and artifacts Museum Management and Curatorship Volume • The power of learning through 21, Issue 1, 2006 Natural History objects

Session 18 The Museo del Prado • s://www.museodelprado.es/en/museum/history-of-the- • The Historical collection. History of museum Museum, history of museology • Action plans: the expansion and modernization project • The bicentenary of The Museo del Prado Session 19 Cervantes Birthplace Museum – Alcalá de • http://www.museocasanataldecervantes.org/miguel-de- Henares cervantes-his- life/ • Historic house preservation • Restoration • Interpretation

Session 20 IES ABROAD MADRID CENTER – City Exam FINAL PAPER DUE

REQUIRED READINGS: • Brandi, C., Theory of Restoration, in Stanley Price, N. et al. editors, Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage. Readings in Conservation, the Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, 1996, PP.230-235Ciampi, La protezione del patrimonio culturale. Strumenti internazionali e legislazione italiana. Ediz. italiana e inglese, Giappichelli, Torino 2014 (English Edition); • Boylan P. (coord.), Running a Museum ; a practicle Handbook, Paris, ICOM/Unesco, 2006; ICOM/UNESCO http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001410/141067e.pdf • Desvallées, A., Mairesse, F. (Dir.) (2010) Key concepts for museology. Paris, Armand Colon and ICOM: http://www.icom- italia.org/wp- content/uploads/2018/02/ICOMItalia.KeyconceptsofMuseology.Pubblicazioni.2010.pdf • FAI, selected documents from http://www.fondoambiente.it/index.aspx; • International institutions, selected documents from: http://www.iccrom.org/about/what-is-iccrom/; • International institutions, selected documents from: http://icom.museum/; • Lanzarote J.M. “Crown, Church and People: History of National Museums in Spain”. Aronson P and Elgenius G. (eds) (2011) Building National Museums in Europe 1750–2010. Conference proceedings from EuNaMus, European National Museums: Identity Politics, the Uses of the Past and the European Citizen, Bologna 28-30 April 2011. EuNaMus Report No. 1., Linköping, Linköping University Electronic Press, , 847-880. http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/064/035/ecp64035.pdf • La Regina A. (Editor), Museo Nazionale Romano, Museum Catalogue, Electa, Rome, 2007, pp. 10-105

• Melucco Vaccaro, A., The Role of Science and Technology, in Stanley Price, N. et al. editors, Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage. Readings in Conservation, the Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, 1996, PP. 424- 431 • https://www.museodelprado.es/en/resource/visual-guide-to-the-prado-museum/882d7e55-f30c-f0fb-5c62-cf1134af615a • Museums Association, Museums 2020 Discussion Paper, London, Museums Association, 2012. Available on Internet: http://www.museumsassociation.org/download?id=806530 • Museum Systems in Italy: https://www.aspeninstitute.it/en/system/files/private_files/2013-11/doc/Museum%20Systems.pdf; • http://www.palazzovalentini.it/index.php?lang=eng • Paseo del arte: https://www.esmadrid.com/sites/default/files/documentos/guia_paseo_del_arte_imprescindible.pdf • Philippot, P., Restauration from the Perspective of Humanities, in Stanley Price, N. et al. editors, Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage. Readings in Conservation, the Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, 1996, PP.216-228; • Riegl, A., The Modern Cult of Monuments, its essence and its development, in Stanley Price, N. et al. editors, Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage. Readings in Conservation, the Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, 1996, PP. 69-83. • Roberto Del Signore (ed.), Le Domus Romane di Palazzo Valentini - The Roman Domus at Valentini Palace, Arbor Sapientiae, 2016 • Spanish Cultural Heritage legislation: http://www.eui.eu/Projects/InternationalArtHeritageLaw/Spain.aspx • The University System of the Università di Bologna: http://www.unibo.it/en/university/campuses-and- structures/university- museum-system-sma; • Urbani, G., The Science and Art of Conservation of Cultural Property, in Stanley Price, N. et al. editors, Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage. Readings in Conservation, the Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, 1996, PP. 445-450