2016/2017

2018/2019

DM270

GEO/06 (MINERALOGY)

DEPARTMENT OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

NATURAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES

PERCORSO COMUNE

3°

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

3

24 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

CALLEGARI ATHOS MARIA (titolare) - 3 ECTS

No prerequirement.
No special prerequirements are required, however, since it is an interdisciplinary subject with a technological and administrative component, it is useful to have an open approach to information of a different nature.

The aim of the course is to train experts able to act in museums and didactic-scientific centers with a mostly scientific-geologic address. The learning outcomes are summarized in: acquisition of administrative notions (laws and regulations) necessary for the management of museums and acquisition of the necessary technical expertise (preparation, protection) for a correct conservation of geological materials.

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 with Power Point presentations and visits to the mineralogical museum.

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

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

Oral test. The exam will cover the administrative and theoretical-practical topics dealt with during the course. The aim is to verify the degree of assimilation of the notions of museology and museography required to operate within a museum. The final grade is given by the average of the grades obtained in module 1 and module 2.

Oral test. The exam will cover the administrative and theoretical-practical topics dealt with during the course. The aim is to verify the degree of assimilation of the notions of museology and museography required to operate within a museum. The final grade is given by the average of the grades obtained in module 1 and module 2.