| CODE | BLH5203 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Collections Management | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Conservation and Built Heritage | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The Study-unit is designed to introduce students to a range of theoretical and practical issues and debates concerning the management of collections and the objects that form them, primarily in a museum context. Particular attention will be given to the following questions and themes: - How are collections formed? - What should an accessioning and deaccessioning policy achieve? - Inventory and data retrieval systems - Virtual and actual public access to collections - Conservation and storage issues - Relationship between collections and the buildings that house them - Taking the collection outside the museum - Caring for collections during implementation of infrastructural projects - Disaster planning Study-unit Aims - To familiarise students with the challenges and issues that surround the management of museum collections; - To provide students with a firm foundation in current best practices for the management of collections; - To give students the opportunity to develop practical skills in the management of museum collections. Learning Outcomes 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Describe the key steps in the development of a management strategy for given collection; - Critically discuss some of the threats and practical problems that may be faced in the management of a given collection; - Apply the principles of best practice in collections management to new situations; - Prepare an outline disaster plan for a given collection. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Give a presentation that explains technical/scientific issues, in a form that may be understood by a lay audience; - Set up a framework to organise large bodies of data in a form that may be maintained and used by others; - Work as part of an effective interdisciplinary team to produce tangible results. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings Main Texts Keene, S. 2005. Fragments of the world: uses of museum collections. Elsevier Petterson, S et al. (eds) 2010. Encouraging collections mobility :a way forward for museums in Europe. Finnish National Gallery The National Trust. 2005. The National Trust manual of housekeeping: the care of collections in historic houses open to the public. Elsevier Supplementary Readings Borg Bonaci, G. 2008. Heritage Malta’s Fototeka : a management plan for Heritage Malta’s national photographic collection. Unpublished B.Cons. Dissertation Borg, S.M. 2010. LinkA management plan for a reserve collection : a case study on the National Museum of Fine Arts.Unpublished Dissertation Waller, R.R. 2003. Cultural property risk analysis model : development and application to preventive conservation at the Canadian Museum of Nature. Göteborg Studies in Conservation, 13 The following website also contains a range of useful resources: http://www.aam-us.org/ |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Blended Learning | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Aldo Accardi Claudia Garradas Maria Pia Aquilina |
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