2016/2017

2018/2019

DM270

DEPARTMENT OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

NATURAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES

PERCORSO COMUNE

3°

2nd semester (04/03/2019 - 14/06/2019)

6

Italian

No prerequirement.

The aim of the course is to train experts able to act in museums and didactic-scientific centers with a mostly scientific-geologic address.

In the first part of the course, the history of the museological thought and the evolution of the museums (collections in the Middle Ages, Renaissance cabinets, museums in the 19th and 20th century), are illustrated. It will be point out that the evolution of the systematic of minerals, rocks and fossils is in close relationship with the increase of the knowledge and the techniques of research.
The several types of the Scientific Museums will be dealt and will be explained several methods about the preparation, conservation, repair, cataloguing and exhibition of the geological materials (minerals, rocks and fossils).
The problems about the alteration of the geological materials due to light, humidity, oxidation, temperature, etc. and all the other problems that can occur during the management of a museum (architectonic and technical problems) are illustrated in detail.
The concepts of communication with a particular attention to the development of new media products such as websites that allows making a virtual visit of the museums; the standing and mission of a museum; types of exposition presentation are illustrated.

Classroom lectures and visits to the mineralogical museum.

Teaching material provided free by the teacher. Notes from lesson, articles of magazines.

Cipriani C., Appunti di museologia naturalistica. Firenze University Press, Firenze, 2006.

Oral test

Oral test