Do we need university museums? Cover Image

Czy potrzebne są muzea uczelniane?
Do we need university museums?

Author(s): Jan Święch
Subject(s): Museology & Heritage Studies, Higher Education , Evaluation research
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: musealium; collection; the heart of the matter; collection strategy; museum exhibition; collection management;

Summary/Abstract: In the present era of unprecedented world musealisation, university museums also play a significant part in the process. Great possibilities offered by the digital technologies tempt us to build exhibitions with nothing else. The author of this paper points out the canonical foundations of the concept of museum, where the original object – a musealium – serves as a basic ‘text’ of the exhibitions held by the institution and indicates that musealia are not only about form and function, but mostly about their semantic and symbolic content which evokes various feelings and emotions. It is crucial to reach them by building a collection consisted of objects.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 25
  • Page Range: 109-114
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Polish