Unit MUSEOLOGY

Course
Cultural heritage
Study-unit Code
GP005325
Curriculum
Storia dell'arte
Teacher
Alfredo Bellandi
Teachers
  • Alfredo Bellandi
Hours
  • 36 ore - Alfredo Bellandi
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2023
Offered
2025/26
Learning activities
Affine/integrativa
Area
Attività formative affini o integrative
Academic discipline
L-ART/04
Type of study-unit
Obbligatorio (Required)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction

Contents

Outlines of museology: the form of the museum and the face of the collector

The module traces the diachronic development of the 'museum' institution (place of artistic reception) through a historical presentation of the various forms of collecting and their transition to the museum structure, underlining the specificity of the Italian museum closely connected to the landscape.

Reference texts
M. Ferretti, La forma del museo, in Capire l’Italia. I musei, Milano 1980, pp. 46-80; R. Fontanarossa, Collezionisti e musei. Una storia culturale, Milano 2022; A. Bellandi, Lezioni di museologia. Dal collezionismo al museo, Firenze 2025.


Specific information relating to the course and teaching materials will be available on the platform Unistudium: https://www.unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium/login/index.php on the teaching page «Museologia».

It is possible to agree with the teacher on a specific program for working students and non-attending students


Students with disabilities and/or with SLD who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for the compensatory tools ensured by law (e.g. textbooks in digital format; teaching materials in accessible formats: presentations, handouts, workbooks, provided if necessary in advance of the lessons), for which consult https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa.
For the request, students are invited to ask the teacher, who will put them in contact with the Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it) 
 

Educational objectives
The course aims to illustrate the transition from collecting to museum institution

Prerequisites
Essential knowledge of the artistic history from the ancient to the contemporary world

Teaching methods
Frontal lessons; projections. educational trips; meetings with museum directors

Students with disabilities and/or with SLD who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for the compensatory tools ensured by law (e.g. textbooks in digital format; teaching materials in accessible formats: presentations, handouts, workbooks, provided if necessary in advance of the lessons), for which consult https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa. For the request, students are invited to ask the teacher, who will put them in contact with the Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it) 
Students with disabilities and/or SLD: for any information on University services, consult the page https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the  Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it)

Other information

Learning verification modality

Attendance (recommended but not mandatory); final oral interview of approximately twenty minutes with open response; evaluation elements:
understanding of the museum institution
in the history of culture

Students with disabilities and/or with SLD who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for compensatory tools, dispensatory measures and inclusive technologies ensured by law, to be requested and agreed with the teacher well in advance of tests and exams. For general information, consult the page https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Disability and/or SLD Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it).

Extended program
The module traces the diachronic development of the 'museum' institution, a place of artistic reception, through a historical presentation of the various forms of collecting and their transition to the museum structure, underlining the concept of 'cultural heritage' and the specificity of the Italian museum closely connected to the landscape. Purchasing or collecting works of art are categories that are apparently bordering, but in reality are poles apart from the act of collecting, defined by specific peculiarities specific only to the collector, of whom the module intends to investigate the meaning of the term.

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