Special Topics in Museology II: Heritage as a means of transmitting information

Lectures will be dedicated to the heritage building as a means of providing information. Special attention will be paid to the museum exhibition, in which we create stories about the past by selecting objects, their mutual contextualisation and thoughtful placement in space. We will deal with some key concepts of modern museum theory: we will treat the museum space as a place where time condenses, we will talk about narrative topology, ie how we can create a narrative in the context of moving through a museum exhibition, and engaged in the process of constant signification - its feasibility, advantages and disadvantages - within the museum exhibition. Therefore, special attention will be paid to the museum management. During the seminar, we will discuss several foreign and domestic examples, with the help of which we will try to present the heritage object in a tangible way as a means of providing information. Examples will be presented in the form of classic presentations with pictorial material, films and visits to selected museums and heritage sites. As part of the independent seminar work, participants will jointly prepare a proposal for a museum presentation: they will choose the topic of the presentation, objects included in it, and will formulate a proposal for setting up a museum presentation and the content of messages to be sent to its visitors. The seminar will end with a joint presentation of the presentation design.interpretation of the heritage;heritage and identity.

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