Museum studies: Organisational aspects [ LHAGI2500 ]

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Attention: this course is open only to students who have taken or are enrolled in course LHAGI 2540.

Tasks, procedures and constraints related to the fields of visitor reception, pedagogical policy, storage, site management, mounting exhibitions, personnel management, and finance (including relations with subsidy-granting bodies).

To make students aware of the different aspects of the practical life of a museum: introduction to procedures and consideration of constraints arising from the situation on the ground.

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.

Oral or written examination.

Lecture course based on legal texts and field trips.

The structure of the course is linked to the examination of the conditions and criteria for accreditation of museums in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. There will be meetings with museum professionals and behind-the-scenes visits.

Marie-Odile de Bary et Jean-Michel Tobelem (dir.), Manuel de muséographie. Petit guide à l'usage des responsables de musée, Séguier, Biarritz, 1998.

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