Material Culture and Museology

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

The seminar uses continuous evaluation: presentation of content, clarification of doubts and tasks assigned  by the professors; presentation and discussion of comments and tasks by students.

Learning Outcomes

The aim is to learn the concepts of "material culture", "industrial heritage" and "new museology", integrating them in their respective contexts of emergence and evolution.  We analyze the categories in question from the areas of "culture" or "civilization" and "cultural heritage" and "museology".  Students learn to identify specific areas - and their characteristics - both of "material culture", as well as musealization of "industrial heritage". 

Students will learn how to be part of the debate about the notion of "material culture" and the social usefulness of investments in "industrial heritage"; analysis of study and intervention initiatives in the subcategories of "material culture", "industrial heritage" and museology; participation in research and dissemination related projects, education and training, preservation and musealization of significant traces of "material culture".

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1 - Cultural heritage: the history and sociology of the relationship of human societies to identity and memory;  cultural-historical identity, multiculturality and multiculturalism. 

2 - "Civilization" and "culture": evolution of the concept of "material culture". 

3 - Material culture and cultural heritage: from the periphery to the center - the importance of anthropology, archeology and history. 

4 - Industrial archaeology and industrial heritage.

5 - Global social conjunctures and evolution of museum trends: traditional museology, new museology and postmodern museology. 

6 - Legal and Institutional Framework; public, voluntary and private intervention to protect industrial heritage. 

7 - Screening study projects, inventory and protection (reuse or musealization), enjoyment and profitability of industrial heritage. 

8 - Musealization of industrial heritage, typologies of exhibition or museum and sustainable development initiatives.

Head Lecturer(s)

João Paulo Cabral de Almeida Avelãs Nunes

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Required elements: attendance and informal participation in class, bibliographic and documentary research, critical review. Optional elements: preparation and presentation of topics, organization of conferences to discuss and study visits, etc.: 100.0%

Bibliography

ALFREY, Judith e PUTMAN, Tim, The industrial heritage. Managing resources and uses, Londres, Routledge, 1992.

ANDRIEUX, Jean-Yves, Le patrimoine industriel, Paris, PUF, 1992.

BUCAILLE, Richard e PESEZ, Jean-Marie, "Cultura material" (trad. do italiano), Enciclopédia Einaudi, Lisboa,

IN/CM, 1989, vol. 16, p. 11-47.

1º Encontro Internacional sobre Património Industrial e sua Museologia. Comunicações, Lisboa, EPAL, 2000.

GREFFE, Xavier, La valeur économique du patrimoine. La demande et l'offre de monuments, Paris, Economica,

1990.

GUILLAUME, Marc, A política do património (trad. do francês), Porto, Campo das Letras, 2003.

MIRANDA, Jorge e outros (coord.), Direito do património cultural, Oeiras, INA, 1996.

ROCHA-TRINDADE, Maria Beatriz (coord.), Iniciação à museologia, Lisboa, UA, 1993.

SANTOS, Maria de Lourdes C. Lima dos e outros, As políticas culturais em Portugal, Lisboa, OAC, 1998.

VEGO, Peter (dir.), The new museology, Londres, Reaktion Books, 1989.