Tradition of museum pedagogy in the Czech Republic and the role of Brno museology in its development
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Museologica Brunensia |
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| Web | Digitální knihovna FF MU |
| Field | Art, architecture, cultural heritage |
| Keywords | museum pedagogy; education in museology; Masaryk University; curriculum of museology |
| Description | Museum pedagogy with all its theoretical and practical aspects is a discipline, which in the Czech Republic currently experiences a period of boom. The past twenty years of unrestricted development, when museums ceased to serve as a tool of official propaganda and returned to free interpretation of their collections, saw not only an increase in interest of the society in museums but also a struggle of museums for new audience. From a practical view we thus find a wide offer of activities and fringe programmes of various quality, and on a theoretical level we can follow up the interest of museologists and pedagogues in the hinterland of the discipline. Museum pedagogy in the Czech Republic rests on a solid base of a long-time tradition. The paper gives a brief overview of the development of this discipline in the Czech Republic both on a theoretical level and from the view of education at the Masaryk University in Brno. |
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