(S) - Seminar; TC - Theoretical/Practical; (OT)- Tutorial

PhD in Museology
1th & 2nd Semester
Hours / Ects
1-The Social Function of Museums / 25(S) / 10
2-In-depth Studies in Museology / 25(S) / 10
3-Museology and Contemporary Social Issues / 5(TC); 20(S) / 10
4-Cultural Policies and Museology / 5(TC); 20(S) / 10
5-Museology and Computation / 5(TC); 20(S) / 10
6-Museology and Education / 25(S) / 10
3th & 4th Semester
7-Research Methodologies in Museology / 20 (TP) / 10
8-Research Seminar in Museology / 10 (S) / 5
Thesis / 30(OT) / 45
5yh & 6th Semester
9-Thesis 2nd & 3th Year / 30(OT) / 60

(S) - Seminar; TC - theoretical/practical; (OT)- Tutorial

1-The Social Function of Museums

Objectives

The objective of this curricular unit is to analyze the theoretical-methodological framework of Contemporary Museology. The main reflection and practice areas of Museology will be addressed: their relationship with the social contexts where the production conditions of the different museologic discourses are developed & their various intervention areas. The general context of the curricular unit will be presented & analyzed in detail. We will try to define the theoretical & practical context of the national & international Museology.

Course contents

1 – Memory and power:

The relationships of Museology with the memory contents; Memory as social cohesion element; Cultural patrimony and memory in museums; Museums: conflicts, memories and identity

2 – Museum and Society:

Concepts and Interdisciplinary; The idea of museum; Ways of perceiving the Museum in the contemporary age

3-Modernization of museal institutions:

The cultural and patrimony institutions modernity; New forms of museal action; Innovative processes; The new and different functions of the modern museum

The place of the collections and patrimony in contemporary Museology

4 – The present museum and the new Museology:

Action and conscientization within a new paradigm; Cultural Identity and Democracy; Open and interactive system; Institutional looks and relationship with UNESCO: Santiago de Chile Declaration, Quebec Declaration, Oaxtepec Declaration, Caracas Declaration

5- The museum’s social operativeness:

The museum and its social surroundings; The museum’s study object

Learning outcomes of the course unit

To bring together museologic theory & practice.

To recognize sociomuseologic processes by applying & exploring new methodologies in the resolution of problems, dialoguing with different specialists & finding balanced solutions concerning the respect for populations & their patrimony.

We intend to prepare the students for the museologic exercise & reflection by encouraging them to reflect, to have a critical and ethical mind and to have professional rigor.

Planed learning activities, teaching methods and assessment methods and criteria

The classes are seminars that enable a comprehensive reflection about the problems under discussion.

The assessment is composed of an assignment that is transversal to all curricular units in which all the addressed themes are related. The assessment is also composed of the research' project to be developed with 5 Reading files

Recommended or required reading:
ABREU, Regina e CHAGAS, Mário.(org) ,2003. Memória e património: ensaios contemporâneos. FAPERJ/UNIRIO,R. de Janeiro.

BALERDI, Ignácio Díaz (Coord.) (2007); La memoria fragmentada: el museo y sus paradojas, Col. Museología e Património, Gijón, España, Ed. Trea.

BOLAÑOS, María, 2005. La memoria del mundo. Cien años de museología (1900-2000). Col. Museología e Património, Gijón, España, Ed. Trea.

MOUTINHO, Mário, 1996. Museus e Sociedade. Cadernos de Património, Monte Redondo

PRIMO, Judite Santos (org) , 1999. Museologia e Património: Documentos e Depoimentos. In: Cadernos de Sociomuseologia n15, Centro de Estudos de Sociomuseologia, ULHT, Lisboa.

RIVIÈRE, Georges Henri, 1993. La museología: Curso de museología/ Textos y testimonios. Arte y Estética. Ediciones AKAL, Espanha,.

VARINE-BOHAN, H. 1991. L’iniciative communautaire: recherche et experimentation. Paris: W. MNES,(Collection Muséologie).

2-In-depth Studies in Museology
Objectives

The main objective of this curricular unit is to develop and reflect about the changes occurred in the theoretical-practical field of Museology in the second half of the 20th century & the insertion of the sociomuseologic work in the 21th century.
To discuss the development potential of the museologic institutions, especially in their formats and scopes (social, territorial, financial).
To reflect about the importance of internal & external domain relating to the community in which the museal institutions is inserted

Course contents

From the contemplative museum to the active museum
New formats scopes of museums
Perspectives on the local development: equity difference
A Museology of the development: the roots of the concept their operationalization
Politics museums: the recent investment on museologic institutions, objectives and profitability in the various scopes
The museums and their direct impact on local communities
The personal development
The reinforcement of identitary links
Knowledge preservation
The meaning and the valorization of the museum’s action in the internal perspective
The museums and their indirect impact on local communities
The museum as touristic resource
The museum as promotion and viabilization factor of handicraft activities
The museum as instrument of local visibility
The museum as generator of financial flows and qualified employment
The importance of the museums action in the social inclusion
Synthesis of the effective and potential action of museums as development instruments

Learning outcomes of the course unit

To bring together museologic theory practice.

To recognize sociomuseologic processes by applying exploring new methodologies in the resolution of problems, dialoguing with different specialists finding balanced solutions concerning the respect for populations and their patrimony.

We intend to prepare the students for the museologic exercise and reflection by encouraging them to reflect, to have a critical and ethical mind and to have professional rigor.

Planed learning activities, teaching methods and assessment methods and criteria

The classes are seminars that enable a comprehensive reflection about the problems under discussion.

Recommended or required reading:

A.A.V.V.(2001) Politique e Musées, L’Harmattan, Patrimoines et Societés, Paris.

Boylan, Patrick (1996). Les Projects de musées liés au tourisme et au développment local, in Musée gérer autrement : um regard international, La Documentation Française, Paris,

CEFAT (Centro Europeu de Formação Ambiental e Turística) (1993). El Desarrollo Turístico Sostenible en el Médio Rural, Futures, Madrid

Estudo "Cultura e Lazer, caracterização e evolução das perspectivas de emprego", IEFP, 1999, Espaço e Desenvolvimento, Quaternaire, Portugal

Karp, Ivan e Lavine, Stefen (1992), Museum and Comunities : the politics of public culture, Smithsonian Press,

Syrett, Stephen (1996); Local Development, Avebury, Aldershot, (2ª Ed)

Théveniaut-Muller, Martine (1999); Le développement local, une réponse politique à la mondialisation, Desclée de Brouwer, Paris,

Vachon, Bernard (1991); Le développment local : théorie et prátique, réintroduire l’humain dans la lógique de développment, Gaetan Morin, Quebeque

3-Museology and Social Contemporary Issues

Objectives

The objective is to understand the construction of cultural heritage based on a theoretical and social approach that we understand today as belonging to sociology of culture, and to analyze heritage in the contexts of Museology. To treat the question of heritage diversity, cultural hybridism, material heritage, questions related to social memory, forgetfulness, power, historical and social traumas, reorganizing old certainties of the past and questioning the contemporary uses of heritage, local and global identities.

Course contents

1. Notions of culture, social memory, heritage and identity in the social contemporary thought;
2. Memories, identities, and power
3. Notions of heritage and identity in the contemporary museologic context;
4. Processes of musealization: history, examples, experience;
5. Implications of heritage diversity and the new processes of musealization: museologic, eco-museological, socio-museologic, experiences, and the different6 scenarios (nation and international);
6. The preservation of heritage as political action;
7. Preserved heritage and its relations with citizenship

Learning outcomes of the course unit

To recognize the socio-museologic processes, applying and exploring new methodologies in the resolution of problems and equilibrated solutions in the respect for populations and their heritage;

To analyze and define methodologies and actions that aim at a betterment of the conditions of the museologic practices in contemporary society;

Planed learning activities, teaching methods and assessment methods and criteria

The classes are seminars that enable a comprehensive reflection about the problems under discussion.

Recommended or required reading

APPADURAI, Arjun.1988 Modernity at large, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press Minnesota Press.

ARAÚJO, Henrique Gomes (Org.) 1991 Portugal e a Europa, identidade e diversidade, Ed. Asa, Col. Em Foco.

AUGÉ, Marc 1994 Não-lugares, Introdução a uma antropologia da sobremodernidade, Venda Nova, Bertrand.

BOURDIEU, Pierre. 1998. Campos do Poder. Campo intelectual e Habitus de Classe. In.: A Economia das Trocas Simbólicas, S.Paulo, Ed. Perspectiva.

CONNERTON, Paul 1999 Como as sociedades recordam, Lisboa, Celta.

CRANE, Diane, 1994. The Sociology of Culture, Cambridge, Basil Blackwell.

CRESPI, Franco 1997. Manual de Sociologia da Cultura, Lisboa, Estampa.

FOUCAULT, Michel. 2007. As palavras e as coisas. Uma arqueologia das ciências humanas. S.Paulo, Martins Fontes.

GRAMSCI, Antonio 2006. Os intelectuais. O princípio educativo. Jornalismo. Caderno do Cárcere, vol. 2. Rio J. Civilização Brasileira, pp. 15-53.

SANTOS, Maria de Lourdes Lima dos Santos 1994 (org.), Cultura e Economia, Lisboa, ICS

4-Cultural Policies and Museology

Objectives

With this CU, we pretend to promote the reflection about public policies in the sector of culture and its incidence on the museologic and heritage sector. We shall analyze critically the great contemporary questions that interfere in the contemporary construction of Museology. To do this we shall evaluate the role and place of migrations, local and cross-border identities, multiculturalism and hybridism in the processes of collective gatherings of heritage goods in the logic of the Nation state.

Course contents

The Portuguese and European Models of Cultural Public Policy (CPP)

2. The Place of Museology and Heritage in the CPPs

3. The notions of Memory and Identity in the context of Museology inserted in the CPPs;
4. The notions of Culture as a vehicle for integrated development;

5. Different models of development and their implications in Museology;

6.What potential of development do Museums promote, especially in their new formats and geographical areas (the national museum, the local museum, network museums)? How can museums take and play a developmental role?

7. Documents produced by UNESCO (ICOM / ICOMOS);

8. Transformation of the guiding principles in the scientific field of Museology and Cultural Heritage.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Capacity towards the development of proceedings in the application of Cultural Public Policies;

Qualify towards the analysis of different contexts of social development in the various dimensions of society, in the following environments: national, international, regional, local, and its intersections with contemporary Museology;

To prepare for the investigation and teaching in the areas of Museology, heritage and cultural policies

Planed learning activities, teaching methods and assessment methods and criteria

The classes are seminars that enable a comprehensive reflection about the problems under discussion.

Recommended or required reading

AAVV, 2004. Políticas Culturais e Descentralização: Impactos do Programa Difusão das Artes do Espectáculo, Lisboa, Observatório das Actividades Culturais

ARAÚJO, Henrique Gomes (Org.) 1991 Portugal e a Europa, identidade e diversidade, Ed. Asa, Col. Em Foco.

Carrilho, Manuel Maria, 2001. A Cultura no Coração da Política, Editorial Notícias.
Cultural policies in Europe: a compendium of basic facts and trends, 2001-2002. S.l.: Council of Europe: ERICarts.

Cultural policies in the EU member states. Luxembourg: European Parliament, 2002. Working paper. Education and Culture

Dantas, Vera, 2007. A Dimensão Cultural do Projecto Europeu. Da Europa das Culturas aos Pilares de uma Política Cultural Europeia. Lisboa: Col. Biblioteca Diplomática do Min. dos Negócios Estrangeiros.

Lima dos Santos, Maria de Lourdes, 2004. As Políticas Culturais Urbanas, in Revista do Observ. das Actividades Culturais

Warnier, Jean-Pierre, 2004. La Mondialisation de La Culture, col. Repères, ed. La Découverte

5-Museology and Computing

Objectives

The relationship between museology and computing have come to occupy an increasingly important role especially in the field of expography. This course aims to reflect on this relationship, seeking to clarify their limits and articulations. The responsibilities of the Museum as a user of new technologies and their role as a factor of development of new technologies. New technologies like "fashion" versus communication resource.

The UC is linked to the Laboratory of Computer and Museography offered by the Department allowing doctoral students a direct relationship with the projects developed there.

Course contents

Students can choose between two possibilities:

Develop a theoretical approach relating the new technologies of information and communication with the challenges of Museology;

Participate in the Museology and Computation Lab Unit offered by the Department with the objective of acquiring practical experience in this area, to better understand the limits and possibilities of new technologies

Planed learning activities, teaching methods and assessment methods and criteria

The classes are seminars that enable a comprehensive reflection about the problems under discussion.