INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL TRIBAL UNIVERSITY, AMARKANTAK Syllabus for B.A. (Hon.),Museology. SEMESTER PAPERS THEORY PRACTICAL INTERNAL TOTAL MARKS MARKS Paper 1 Introduction to Museum and Museology 80.. 20 100 SEMESTER-I Paper 2 History of Museum 80. 20 100 SEMESTER-II Paper 3 Museum and Society 80.. 20 100 SEMESTER-III Paper 4 Legislations and International conventions related to Museum 80 20 100 SEMESTER-IV Paper 5 Collection Management 60 25 15 100 SEMESTER-V Paper 6 Museum Management 80 20 100 SEMESTER-VI Paper 7 Curatorial Conservation Paper 8 Museum Exhibition Paper 9 Museum Education 60 25 15 100 60 25 15 100 60 25 15 100 Paper 10 Study Visit and Training Report (This is a practical-based non examination paper) REPORT 40 SEMINAR 30 VIVA-VOCE 30 GRAND TOTAL 680 130 190 1000 100 Page1
B.A. (Hons) Semester I Paper I Introduction to Museum and Museology Unit I- Origin and definitions of museum, meaning of key concepts mentioned in various definitions. Purposes of museum. Unit II- Origin and definition of museology and museography. Nature of museology science or art, Museology as interdisciplinary Science. Unit III- Introduction to museum work and job opportunities, Museology courses in India. Unit IV- Functions of museums. Types of museums. Unit V- Professional bodies related with museum- ICOM, MAI, ICCROM, American Association of Museums, Commonwealth Association of Museums, UNESCO. Note -Educational tour to different Museums. Essential Reading Alexander, Edward P. Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums. American Association for State & Local History, 1978 Baxi, S. J. and Dwivedi, V. P. Modern Museums. Abhinav Publications, Delhi,1973 Bedekar, V.H. New Museology for India. National Museum Institute of History of Art, Conservation, and Museology, New Delhi, 1995 Bhatnagar, Anupama. Museums, Museology and New Museology. Sundeep Prakashan., New Delhi, 2000 Burcaw, G.E., Introduction to Museum Work, AASLH, 1979. Banerjee, N.R. Musemu and Cultural Heritege. Dwivedi, V. P. and Pant, G.N. (eds) Museums and Museology: New Horizons. Agam Kala Prakashan, Delhi, 1980 Fleming, David., Paine, Crispin., and Rhodes, Jhon G. (eds)., Social History in Museums: A Handbook for Professionals, HMSO, London, 1993. Gilman, Benjamin, E. Museum Ideals of Purpose and Method. Cambridge, 1918 Jain, Sunjay: Museums Avam Museology : Ek Parichaya (in Hindi) Kanika Prakshan, Baroda, 2001. Nigam, M.L. Fundamentals of Museology. Navhind Prakashan, Hyderabad, 1966 Thompson, John M.A. (ed.) Manual of Curatorship, A Guide to Museum Practice. Butterworths, 1984 Page2 Wittlin, Alma S., Museums in search of Useable Future, MIT press, Cambridge, London, 1970.
Semester II Paper II History of Museum Unit I- Development of museums in global context. Introduction to at least ten internationally renowned museums. Unit II- Development of museums in India. Unit III- Introduction to various types of museums in India -- national, regional, local, site, science and technology, anthropological, art, archaeology, children, personnalia etc. Unit IV- Development of museums in Madhya Pradesh. Unit V- Introduction to some important museums of Madhya Pradesh. Essential Reading Alexander, Edward P. Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums. American Association for State & Local History, 1978 Agrawal, U. Directory of Museums in India. Sundeep Prakashan, New Delhi, 2009 Banerjee, N.R. Museum and Cultural Heritege. Burcaw, G.E., Introduction to Museum Work AASLH, 1979. Gilman, Benjamin, E. Museum Ideals of Purpose and Method. Cambridge, 1918 Jain, Sunjay: Museums Avam Museology : Ek Parichaya (in Hindi) Karnika Prakshan, Broda 2001. Markham S. F. and Hargreaves H. The Museums of India. Museums Association, London, 1936 Shivaramamurthy, C- Directory of Museums in India, 1956. Thompson, John M.A. (ed.) Manual of Curatorship, a Guide to Museum Practice. Butterworths, 1984 Wittlin, Alma S. The Museum, its History and its Tasks in Education. Londres, Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, 1949 Wittlin, Alma S., Museums in Search of Useable Future, MIT press, Cambridge, London, 1970. Page3
Semester III Paper III Museum and Society Unit I- Role of museums in Society. Need and strategies for popularizing museums. Museum as an educational institution Unit II- Museum as a cultural centre. Concept of culture and its attributes. Museum as a guardian and propagator of culture. Cultural activities organized by museums. Unit III- Role of museum in promoting tourism. Case studies of some museums popular among tourists in Madhya Pradesh. Unit IV- Concept and role of community museum. Some example of community museums in India. Unit V-. Role of Museums in safeguarding traditional knowledge and practices : Technological Knowledge, Rituals, Myths, Legends, Festivals, Dress, Foods, Games, Sports, Performing Arts, Material culture, and believes related to all cultural aspects. Essential Reading Alexander, Edward P. Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums. American Association for State & Local History, 1978 Baxi, S. J. and Dwivedi, V. P. Modern Museums. Abhinav Publications, Delhi,1973 Bedekar, V.H. New Museology for India. National Museum Institute of History of Art, Conservation, and Museology, New Delhi, 1995 Bhatnagar, Anupama. Museums, Museology and New Museology. Sundeep Prakashan., New Delhi, 2000 Biswas, S. S. Protecting the Cultural Heritage: National Legislations and International Conventions. Aryan Books International,1999 Jain, Sunjay: Museums Avam Museology: Ek Parichaya (in Hindi) Karika Prakshan, Baroda 2001. Burcaw, G.E., Introduction to Museum Work, AASLH, 1979. Banerjee, N.R. Museum and Cultural Heritage. Fleming, David., Paine, Crispin., and Rhodes, Jhon G. (eds)., Social History in Museums: A Handbook for Professionals, HMSO, London, 1993. Gilman, Benjamin, E. Museum ideals of purpose and method. Cambridge, 1918 Morley, Grace. Museums Today. Department of Museology, Baroda, 1981 Prakash, Satya. Museums and Society. Department of Museology, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, 1964. Wittlin, Alma S, Museums in search of Useable Future, MIT press, Cambridge, London, 1970. Page4
Semester IV Paper IV Legislations and International conventions related to Museum Unit I- Need and importance of legislations related to heritage. Implications for Museums in terms of collecting and protection of heritage. Unit II- The Indian Treasure Trove Act, 1878. Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958 and recent amendments. Unit III- The Antiquities and Art Treasures Act, 1972. Unit IV- Wild Life Protection Act, 1972. Unit V- International conventions on restitution of cultural property. Illicit traffic in works of art, protection of cultural property in case of armed conflicts. Essential Reading - http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/ http://asi.nic.in/asi_legislations.asp http://envfor.nic.in/legis/wildlife/wildlife1.html http://envfor.nic.in/legis/awbi/awbi01.pdf http://www.pbhealth.gov.in/pdf/act1.pdf Biswas, S. S. Protecting the Cultural Heritage: National Legislations and International Conventions. Aryan Books International,1999. Page5
Semester-V Paper V Collection Management Unit I- Purposes of collecting. Methods of collecting. Disposing museum collections meaning and purposes of disposal. Methods of disposal. Ethics of collection. Unit II- Purposes and importance of documentation. Process of documentation. Types of documents. Numbering system. Rules of marking. Deaccessioning meaning, importance and process. Unit III- Storage purposes and factors that govern design of collection stores. Storage systems. Specific storage condition for different types of collections. Visual storage. Unit IV- Research related to collections purposes and significance. Methods of collection research. Scope of research in a museum other than collections. Unit V- Case studies of collection management in different museums (at least five case studies). Practical: Essential Reading Preparation of various documents: making entries in entry, accession and classified registers and index and catalogue cards, writing description of objects, taking measurements. Marking on objects. Dudley, D. H., Wilkinson, I.B. et.al. Museum Registration Methods. American Association of Museums, Washington, D.C., 1979 Fachy Anne (ed), Collection Management, Routledge, London And New York,1994. Kavanagh, Gaynor., History Curatorship, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC, 1990. Kenyon, J. Collecting for the twenty-first century in Collections management / ed. by Anne Fahy. Routledge, London, New York 1994. Lord, Gail Dexter & Lord, Barry (eds.), The Manual of Museum Planning, HMSO, London, 1991 Museums Association of India, Documentation in Museums. Proceedings of Annual General Conference of Museums Association of India held in Mysore, 1973 Roychaudhari Anil, Art Museum Documentation and Practical Handling. Choudhury and Choudhury, 1963 UNESCO, Storage, Museum International, Vol. XLVII, n. 4, 1995 Page6
Paper VI Museum Management Unit I- Definition of Management. Nature of management - science or art. Functions of Management. Role of management in museum. Unit II- Planning - meaning and importance, types of plans, planning process. Controlling - meaning and importance, control process, tools of controlling. Unit III- Organizing - meaning and importance, types of organization structures. Role of management board and committees. Staffing- recruitment, training and motivation. Unit IV- Funding - sources of funding, strengths and weaknesses of different sources. Budgeting - importance and types. Unit V- Marketing - meaning and definitions. Role of marketing in museums. P s of Marketing (product, price, promotion and place). Essential Reading - Atikson, Frank., Financial Management, in Thompson, J M A et al, Manual of Curatorship, Chapter 56, Butterworths/Museums Association, London, 1986 Ambrose, Timothy & Paine, Crispin Basics Dixon, Brian., Marketing for Museums: Enhancing the social value of the museum experience, MPR News Volume 2, Number 2, 1992. Kotler, Philip., Marketing Management: Analysis, Planning, Implementation, and Control, Prentice-Hall of India, New Delhi Lord, Gail Dexter & Lord, Barry (eds.), The Manual of Museum Planning, HMSO, London, 1991 Mork, Paal., Marketing, Running a Museum: A Practical Handbook, ICOM, 2004 Organization of Museum : A practical Advice, Unesco. Runyard, Sue and French, Yiva., Marketing and public Relations Handbook for Museums, Galleries and Heritage Attractions, Altamira Press, 2000 Page7
Practical: Paper VII Curatorial Conservation Unit I- Concept and significance of conservation. Role of curator and conservator in conservation. Nature and types of materials of collections. Causes of deterioration of collection. Methods of examination and diagnosis. Ethics of conservation. Unit II- Control of various factors - Climatic: temperature, relative humidity and light; atmospheric: air pollution, acidity, particulate matters etc. and Biological agencies: types, damaging effects and preventive measures. Unit III- Care and Handling- Principles of house-keeping, rules of handling various types of collections. Packing and Transportation. Unit IV- Professional Bodies related to conservation such as NRLC, INTACH, ICCROM. Role of public in protecting heritage housed in museums or elsewhere. Training opportunities. Unit V- Types of risk to museums. Physical planning in terms of security - construction of buildings and showcases. Management of security personnel, Internal procedures. Protection from fire. Electronic systems. Identification of conservation problem: nature, type and extent of deterioration, and preparing a case study report. Handling and use of instruments like light meters, UV monitors, Hygrometers and Thermohygrographs. Use of Silica gel. Good housekeeping practices. Essential Reading - Agrawal O. P., Care and Preservation of Museum objects, NRLC, New Delhi, 1977. Aiyappan A.and Sayamurti S.T.(Eds.),Handbook of Museum Technique,Govt. of Madras, 1960 ASC Conservation of Cultural Property in India, Annual Journal of IASC, New Delhi Conservation of cultural Property (with special reference to tropical conditions), UNESCO, Paris, 1979 Gairola T.R., Handbook of Chemical Conservation, Dept of Museology, M S University of Baroda, Vadodara. John M.A. Thompson (ed.), Manual of Curatorship, Butter Worth s London, 1984 Kamalakar G. and Rao Pandit V. (Eds.), Conservation, Preservation and Restoration: Traditions, Trends & Techniques, Birla Archaeological and Cultural Research Institute, Hyderabad, 1995 Kharbade B.V. and Bhatia S.K., Preventive conservation of museum objects, NRLC, Lucknow, 2003 MAI, Museum Security, Museum Association of India Plenderleith H.J. and Werner A.E.A., The Conservation of Antiquities and Works of Art, Oxford University Press, New York, 1979 Page8
Ranade Anuradha, Samel Swapna and Nabar Sheela, Elements of Museology, Archaeology, Archival and Library Sciences, Manan Prakashan, Mumbai, 2002 Swarnkamal, Protection and Conservation of Museum Collection, Baroda,(nd) Museum and Picture Gallery, Thomson, Garry., Museum Environment Page9
Semester VI Paper VIII Museum Exhibition Unit I- Definition and purposes of museum exhibitions. Types of museum exhibitions. Case study of some museum exhibitions. Unit II- Exhibition planning - stages, preparation of exhibition brief, exhibition team, schedule of work. Unit III- Exhibition designing - concept of design, elements of design - colour, texture, layout, light. Principles of design. Unit IV- Exhibition furniture and accessories - types of showcases, pedestals, display boards etc. Factors governing design of showcases, dioramas, period rooms etc. Unit V- Exhibition text - purpose, format and language. Use of audio-visuals and graphics. Exhibition evaluation. Practical: Defining goals of the exhibitions, developing the theme, lay outing the exhibition. Writing exhibition text. Observing and tracking visitors. Essential Reading Bedekar, V.H., So You want Good Museum Exhibitions, Dept. Of Museology, M. S. University of Baroda, 1978. Belcher, Michael., Exhibitions in Museums, Leicester University Press: Leicester, 1991 Dean, david., Museum Exhibition: Theory and Practice, Routledge: London and New York, 1994. Kavanagh, Gaynor., History Curatorship, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC, 1990. Miles, R.S. (ed.), Design of Educational Exhibits, Allen & Unwin: London, 1982 North, F.J., Museum Labels: Handbook for Museum Curators, pt B, sect.3. The Museums Association: London, 1957. ROM, Communicating with the Museum Visitor, Royal Ontario Museum: Toronto, 1976. Serrell, Beverly., Making Exhibit Labels: a Step by Step Guide, AASLH: Nasnville. Page10
Paper IX Museum Education Unit I- Role of museum in formal, non-formal and informal learning. Difference between learning in museums and other sources of learning. Factors that prevent people from learning from museums. Unit II- Management of education services - education policy, resource requirement and development. Stages of organizing visits of children, adults and special groups. Training of school teachers and education staff. Unit III- Education programs such as tours, lectures, demonstrations, workshops, drama, gallery talks, activity sheets, clubs, discovery and participation based activities etc. for different target groups according to their needs. Unit IV- Extension services : meaning and significance. Extension exhibitions travelling and mobile exhibitions and school kits. Educational programs types of programs for different target groups with focus on special problems in organizing activities outside the museum. Collaboration with groups and organizations outside the museum. Unit V- Museum publications - meaning and purposes. Types of museum publications. Role of library in a museum. Practical: Preparing activity-sheets for children. Interpreting exhibits to different type of visitors. Writing text and preparing layout of leaflets, posters etc. Essential Reading Ambrose, Timothy., (Ed.), Education in Museums: Museums in Education, Scottish Museums Council: Edinburgh, 1987 Fairley, John A., History teaching through Museums, longman: London, 1977. Falk & Dierking (eds.), Learning from Museums, 2000. Hein, George., Learning in the Museum, Routledge, 1998 Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean., Museum and Gallery Education, Leicester University Press: Leicester, 1991 Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean., (ed.), Initiatives in Museum Education, Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester: Leicester, 1989. Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean., Museum and their Visitors, 1994 ICOM/CECA, Museums and Education, Danish ICOM/CECA, Denmark, 1982. Kavanagh, Gaynor., History Curatorship, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC, 1990. MAI, Journal of Indian Museums, Volume XXXVI 1980. MAI, Journal of Indian Museums, Volume XLVIII 1992. Roberts. Lisa, C., From Knowledge to Narrative: Educators and the Changing Museum, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC and London, 1997. Page11
Paper X Study Visit and Training Report Visit to museums and allied institutions and training in a museum or museum related institutions for two weeks. Submission of Report. Seminar / Presentation on any Museological Topic. Viva-voce. Note: This is a practical-based non-examination paper. Therefore, assessment will be done internally. Page12