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EDUCATION TO MUSEUMS

Academic Year 2026/2027 - Teacher: FEDERICA SANTAGATI

Expected Learning Outcomes

The course aims to provide basic knowledge of museum heritage education useful for developing valid heritage education projects (indispensable tools for transmitting knowledge of the museum heritage). The goal is to propose paths that allow students - at the end of the course - to develop reflections on the relationship between cultural heritage and the construction of civic identity and to make compatible the knowledge acquired in the field of communication, mediation and heritage education with professional skills in the museum sector.

Course Structure

Lectures, exercises, group work, case analysis. Exercises or equivalent assisted activities to be held at museums.

Attendance of Lessons

Attendance is not compulsory

Detailed Course Content

Methodological and technical tools useful for guiding every form of activity in museums: from the planning project to the study of collections for didactic purposes.

History of collecting and of the museum institution in Europe and America.

Cultural mediation according to the different types of public, elements of museum communication.

Digital tools in museum heritage education and written language in museums.

School and museum heritage education.

Textbook Information

MUSEUMS, HERITAGE EDUCATION, TELLING ART

·         M.V. Marini Clarelli, Che cos’é un museo, Carocci, Roma, 2021, pp. 134.

·         I. Baldriga, Diritto alla bellezza. Educazione al patrimonio artistico, sostenibilità e cittadinanza, Milano, Le Monnier Università, 2017, pp. 176.

•    C. Dal Maso, P. Dragoni (a cura di), L’arte che parla. Radio e podcast per la valorizzazione dei beni culturali, Edipuglia Bari 2024, pp. 153-228.

·         C. Da Milano, E Sciacchitano, LINEE GUIDA PER LA COMUNICAZIONE NEI MUSEI:  SEGNALETICA INTERNA,  DIDASCALIE E PANNELLI, Roma, 2015, http://musei.beniculturali.it/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Linee-guida-per-la-comunicazione-nei-musei-segnaletica-interna-didascalie-e-pannelli.-Quaderni-della-valorizzazione-NS1.pdf , pp. 102.

 

Knowledge of the events concerning the birth, development, set-up and plan of the educational services of the two museums chosen and visited by the student will be the subject of examination.

In addition to consulting the material on the Studium portal and studying the texts in the program, all students (attending and non-attending students) are RECOMMENDED to consult the website of ICOM Italia, the Education for Cultural Heritage working group. Museums-schools-territory and professionalism (https://www.icom-italia.org/edificazione-al-patrimonio-culturale-musei-scuole-territorio-e-professionalita/) to view the documents relating to heritage education cultural.

All students are RECOMMENDED to study with the aid of a historical atlas (chosen by the student) - which can also be used during the exam - especially the part relating to the history of collecting

 

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

The teachers undertake, within the limits of the financial resources, to ensure as far as possible that a copy of the adopted texts is available in the departmental library or (in the case of hard-to-find texts, articles and essays) to make them available on Studium, in accordance with the applicable copyright laws.

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