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Museum studies


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    • Museums--Study and teaching
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    • found: Work cat.: La muséologie, champ de théories et de pratiques, 2012:p. 4 of cover (museology as a field of theories and practices) (OCoLC)860778568
    • found: Conference on Comparative Museology and Museography in ASEAN (1997 : Manila, Philippines). Comparative museology and museography in ASEAN, ©1997.(OCoLC)51580571
    • found: Blanchet, J. Lexique de muséologie = Glossary of museology, ©1989(museology: Science or study concerned with the management, organization and equipment or museums; museography: Techniques and methods used in the classification and display of museum objects) (OCoLC)18993209
    • found: Moyer, E.R. Museology in the United States : an analysis of the museum studies field, 2007.(OCoLC)173523144
    • found: Merriam-Webster dictionary online, Oct. 11, 2021(museology: the science or profession of museum organization and management)
    • found: Britannica online, Oct. 11, 2021(under museum: Museology and museography: Along with the identification of a clear role for museums in society, there gradually developed a body of theory the study of which is known as museology; the theory's practical applications, known as museography; the terms museology and museography have been used indiscriminately in the literature, and there is a tendency, particularly in English-speaking countries, to use museology or museum studies to embrace both the theory and practice of museums)
    • found: Key concepts of museology, 2010(Museology (Museum Studies). Museology is the 'study of the museum' (or museum studies), and not its practice, which is museography; the term museology and its derivative museological, accepted in its wider sense in the 1950s, now has five clearly distinct meanings: 1. most commonly accepted meaning applies the term museology to anything relating to museums; 2. museum studies; museology contrasts with museography, which refers to the practices attached to museology; Anglo-Americans are generally reluctant to accept the invention of new 'sciences' and have favoured the expression museum studies, particularly in Great Britain where the term museology is still rarely used to date; 3. from the 1960s in Central and Eastern Europe, museology gradually came to be considered as a genuine field of scientific research (albeit a developing science) and an independent discipline examining reality; museology as the study of a specific relationship between man and reality, a study in which museums, a phenomenon set in a specific time, are only one of the possible manifestations; however, the likening of museology to a science--even under development--has slowly been abandoned in so far as neither its object of study, nor its methods, truly correspond to the epistemological criteria of a specific scientific approach; 4. the new museology (la nouvelle muséologie in French, where the concept originated) widely influenced museology in the 1980s; emphasised the social role of museums and its interdisciplinary character, along with its new styles of expression and communication; 5. according to a fifth meaning of the term, which we favour here because it includes all the others, museology covers a much wider field comprising all the efforts at theorisation and critical thinking about the museal field)
    • found: What is museology, via IGI Global website, Oct. 11, 2021(1. The study of the history of the museum institution and of its changing role in the society during centuries. 2. The discipline which studies and reflects about the museum, its historical evolution, its role in society and the activities linked to it, such as management, conservation, research and communication. 3. Is the study of museums. It explores the history of museums and their role in society, as well as the activities they engage in, including curating, preservations, public programming, and education. 4. Study of the role, organization, classification and relationship of museums with other institutions. 5. The study of the museum in its essential functions: conservation, scientific and education. Museology deals with the history of museum, conservation aspects and aspects related to heritage)
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    • 2021-10-11: new
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