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  UW Museology Program - Burke Museum
Students entering the program primarily focus on specializations in curation, collection management, and education in museums of anthropology, art, history, and natural history, although other areas of concentration are possible depending on student background, including exhibition and museum administration.
The Museology Program consists of required core courses and electives in museum subjects as well as a range of courses in other disciplines that offer students the opportunity to specialize in areas of particular interest.
As one of the first University graduate programs to require internship training, the Museology Program continues to require this practical experience as an essential training element in addition to practicums carried out in campus facilities such as the Burke Museum, the Henry Art Gallery, the Herbarium, the Arboretum, and University Libraries.
www.washington.edu /burkemuseum/info/museology.php   (377 words)

  
 Centre for Museology (The University of Manchester)
This is the last in a series of three exhibitions organised by MA students in the Centre for Museology and the Whitworth.
Postgraduate Study in Art Gallery and Museum Studies at Manchester is continually reviewed and developed in response to new research, emerging critical approaches and shifts in museum practice.
The Centre for Museology is part of The School of Arts, Histories and Cultures
www.arts.manchester.ac.uk /museology   (0 words)

  
 UEA - World Art Studies and Museology
Why Study in the School of World Art Studies and Museology
School of World Art Studies and Museology, University of East Anglia
The School was founded on the principle that the different forms of art produced around the world merit equal attention.
www.uea.ac.uk /art   (0 words)

  
 UW Libraries - Museology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
Museology Bibliography (BMUSE) - Referenced material includes over 25,000 journals, journal articles, books, and reports published from 1900 to the present.
Museology Periodicals - UW Libraries magazines, journals, newsletters & bulletins on museums and museology with bibliographic databases that index them
Museology Programs in the United States & Canada - alphabetical listing of 56 North American degree- and certificate-granting museology programs with links to program Web sites
www.lib.washington.edu /subject/Museology   (339 words)

  
  Claims and Reality of New Museology
and must be considered a phenomenon of the seventies and eighties, new museology actually follows the tradition among museum people dating back to the nineteenth century of considering the museum as an educational institution in the service of society.
Basically I consider the changes in museum practice demanded by new museology, particularly with respect to local and regional museums, to be desirable and, through a scientific study of the relationship of theory to practice, I intend to produce a more precise definition of and solid basis for new museology.
According to new museology, the "new" museum is defined by its socially relevant objectives and basic principles.
museumstudies.si.edu /claims2000.htm   (15574 words)

  
  Museology — Jyväskylän yliopisto - University of Jyväskylä
Museology explores the way the individual and the community perceive and control the temporal and regional environment through taking into possession pieces of evidence from the past and the present.
Museology deals with the basic questions of humanity, and also offers practical tools for working with the cultural and natural heritage, as well as with art in museums or in other memory organizations.
The development project has a social demand, since now that museology can be studied in different places in Finland, museums must, in the same way as libraries and achieves, be able to demand specialisation in the field of those applying for jobs.
www.jyu.fi /hum/laitokset/taiku/opiskelu/museologia/en/index_html   (400 words)

  
 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Career Guide
Museology at its core is a science dedicated to the systematic study of the organisation, management and the function of a museum.
Some years ago, museology was connected only with archaeology, art and paintings, but in recent years it has begun to represent many other aspects such as anthropology, arms and armour, numismatics, epigraphy and jewellery.
She passed a two-year museology course offered by National Museum and has been teaching here since one year.
www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20031024/career.htm   (1582 words)

  
 Graduate Studies Certificate in Museum Studies
The Museology Certificate Option is open to students formally matriculated into a graduate program at the University of Washington.
This program is associated with the Interdisciplinary Museology Graduate Program and is intended to serve students from a wide variety of disciplines.
To receive a Museology Certificate, students must complete a minimum of 21 credits in Museology, ten of which must be at the 500 level or above.
www.grad.washington.edu /inter/muscert.htm   (409 words)

  
 Master's Degree Programme in Museology
It is based on the theoretical and practical experience of students, lecturers and museum staff.
The Reinwardt Master's degree programme in Museology is the first international course to be validated by the British Cultural National Training Organisation (CHNTO) in 1998.
The aim of the Master's Degree Programme is to provide participants with an academic attitude towards museology and to prepare them for professional careers and leading positions in the world of museums.
www.rwa.ahk.nl /02_studieaanbod/02_opleidingen/03_ma_museologie/index.jsp   (332 words)

  
 University of Helsinki - Museum Studies
In the late 1960’s this course contained 25 hours and was organised together with the Finnish Museums Association, dealing with general museology, Finnish museums, and museum work.
Short courses in Museology were included in the syllabuses of Ethnology and Art History.
The Dean of the Faculty of Arts was presented the proposal in April 1998, also signed by the Heads of the Departments of Archaeology, Art History, Ethnology, and History.
www.helsinki.fi /museologia/background.htm   (738 words)

  
 UW Museum Studies - About the Program
The Graduate Program in Museology brings together faculty and staff from a number of University departments and regional museums to help you earn your Master of Arts in Museology.
At the time of its inception in 1972, the Graduate Program in Museology was only one of three of its kind in the United States and Canada.
Course work is divided between the theoretical and practical aspects of museum operations and includes required core museology subjects and a range of classes offering you the chance to specialize in an area of interest to prepare you to pursue specific types of museum work.
museum.washington.edu /museum/about   (672 words)

  
 Postbaccalaureate certificate in Museology + Museum Studies College and University Degrees.
Postbaccalaureate certificate in Museology + Museum Studies: A program that focuses on the attitudes, knowledge, and skills required to develop, prepare, organize, administer, conserve, store and retrieve artifacts, exhibits and entire collections in museums and galleries, and that prepares individuals to assume curatorial, technical and managerial positions in museums.
George Washington University Postbaccalaureate certificate Museology + Museum Studies: A program that focuses on the attitudes, knowledge, and skills required to develop, prepare, organize, administer, conserve, store and retrieve artifacts, exhibits and entire collections in museums and galleries, and that prepares i...
Harvard University Postbaccalaureate certificate Museology + Museum Studies: A program that focuses on the attitudes, knowledge, and skills required to develop, prepare, organize, administer, conserve, store and retrieve artifacts, exhibits and entire collections in museums and galleries, and that prepares individuals...
www.universities.com /On-Campus/Certificates_Postbaccalaureate_certificate_MultiInterdisciplinary_Studies_Museology__Museum_Studies.html   (352 words)

  
 Museum Studies or Museology Programs
Museum Studies or Museology provides the knowledge, competence and credentials to pursue professional careers in the field of museums.
The Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies (SCEMS) assists the museum community in acquiring and strengthening its understandings and practices of museology...
The Graduate Program in Museum Studies at George Washington University combines traditional academic training in both academic subjects and museum practices and the practical experience that is necessary to begin a successful museum career...
www.museummarket.com /MStudUS.htm   (633 words)

  
 Lindsey A. Lambert's Web Portfolio > Professional > My Philosophy of Museology
Central to both Public History and Museology is the goal of collecting and preserving knowledge, regardless of its form (material, archival, oral, etc.), for present and future evaluation, interpretation and dissemination back to society in the form or research, academic scholarship, publications, educational demonstrations, exhibits, etc.
There is a commitment to serving society by helping to advance our understanding of ourselves by examining not only our past, but also our present.
Simply stated, Public History and Museology help to safeguard various aspects of our physical and cultural commonwealth.
www.gborocollege.edu /~llambert/philosophy.htm   (509 words)

  
 Aligarh Muslim University
The department of Museology at Aligarh Muslim University was established in the year 1988.
This is important as major destruction of our national heritage is being done by the biological agencies like microorganisms, insects and rodents.
With great efforts of the teaching staff the department has got approval for introducing "Museology and Archeology" as vocational subject at degree level
www.amu.ac.in /index3.asp?sublinkid=211&sublink2id=180   (205 words)

  
 Museology Class
The Museology Class meets with two docents, curators and staff.
Last Thursday the Museology class went to the Lyric Opera House to see Carmen...
F zine is part of F Newsmagazine, the student run newspaper of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
www.fzine.com /museology.shtml   (192 words)

  
 Research in Archaeology and Museology (The University of Manchester)
The respective areas of archaeology and museology are interdisciplinary and are concerned with research and teaching in a range of related topics.
An important research centre involved with research into archeology and museology is the Centre for Museology.
The aim of the centre is to develop and promote research and teaching in museum theory and practice.
www.manchester.ac.uk /research/areas/subareas/index.htm?a=s&id=43623   (233 words)

  
 UW Museum Studies - Home
One of the oldest programs of its kind in the U.S., the University of Washington Graduate Program in Museology combines high-quality academic study with practical experience to prepare you for a professional career in museum work.
Students in this two-year program work closely with an interdisciplinary faculty and have access to a broad range of specializations in the field.
Come to our information meeting September 18 (time and location to be announced).
www.museum.washington.edu   (0 words)

  
 Towards a Museology of Reconciliation
One thinks of the vast ruined Temple complexes of Angkor Wat inspiring the likes of Pol Pot in Cambodia to recapture for his people a "mythic agrarian age of Kmer national magnificence" with the subsequent genocidal implications treated as necessary "collateral damage".
We must conclude on a more sanguine note for our task here is to begin to map out a "museology of reconciliation", in short a strategy within which museums, and institutions dedicated to cultural conservation, can find solidarity with those actively promoting world peace.
Ivo Maroevic; Toward a museology of reconciliation, Zagreb; Oct. 5 1996, unpublished M.S. "Dubrovnik: The historic city centre" The Institute of Art History, University of Zagreb; map; 1972
www.maltwood.uvic.ca /tmr/segger.html   (4459 words)

  
 Nubia
a general introduction to museology (April 1993) at ICOM Headquarters in Paris
Given the high degree of proficiency attained by its staff member and the state-of-the-art facilities of the museum, the Egyptian Government wishes to establish a regional training and research centre in conservation and museology at the Nubia Museum.
ICOM is thus under contract with UNESCO to further equip the museum to enable it to fulfil this new function.
www.icom.museum /nubia.html   (411 words)

  
 museology - OneLook Dictionary Search
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museology : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
museology : Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 10th Edition [home, info]
onelook.com /?w=museology   (139 words)

  
 UW Museum Studies - Home
One of the oldest programs of its kind in the U.S., the University of Washington Graduate Program in Museology combines high-quality academic study with practical experience to prepare you for a professional career in museum work.
Students in this two-year program work closely with an interdisciplinary faculty and have access to a broad range of specializations in the field.
Come to our information meeting September 18 (time and location to be announced).
www.museum.washington.edu /museum   (196 words)

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