Checking date: 25/05/2022


Course: 2022/2023

Conservation of cultural property
(15428)
Master in Hispanic Cultural Heritage (Plan: 357 - Estudio: 254)
EPH


Coordinating teacher: POVEDANO MARRUGAT, ELISA MARIA

Department assigned to the subject: Humanities: History, Geography and Art Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course:
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Objectives
The competencies and expected results are: 1. Know the history of the collector. 2. Acquire a vision of the treatment of collections (registration, inventory, cataloging) and their preventive conservation: environmental control and physical-chemical alterations 2. To know criteria of intervention, handling, transportation and packaging. 3. To obtain knowledge of the systems of protection, security, prevention and intervention in emergencies. 4. Know the code of ethics and the possibilities of physical and intellectual accessibility. 5. To know the legal framework that covers the conservation of cultural property
Skills and learning outcomes
Description of contents: programme
FIRST PART: 1. The conservation of cultural material goods: the international legal framework. 2. The conservation of cultural material goods: the Spanish legal framework. 3. The conservation of material cultural property: collecting and museums in Spain and Latin America 4. The conservation of cultural material goods: books and libraries. 5. Conservation and restoration. The hispanic world 6. Heritage management. 7. The conservation of material cultural property: remains and dissemination. SECOND PART 1. Cultural legacy, cultural heritage and heritage property. The hispanic world 2. The preservation of cultural heritage in Spain and Latin America 3. Preservation of intangible cultural heritage: the definition to the Convention for Safeguarding of Universal Cultural Heritage 4. The safeguard measures and intervention criteria of architectural heritage 5. The safeguard measures and intervention criteria of archaeological heritage 6. The safeguard measures and intervention criteria of movable heritage 7. Other heritages and their conservation: bibliographic, documentary and cinematographic heritage
Learning activities and methodology
1. Lectures, which will present the knowledge that students should acquire. Students will be given basic reference texts that allow them to understand and deepen the contents of the subject taught. 2. Practical classes, in which we will work with specific documentation that allows students a more precise approach to the contents of the subject. 3. Oral presentations, presenting the results and materials worked, with the aim of promoting learning and the acquisition of skills in the field of presentation and public dissemination of the work done. 4. Use of forums and another learning tools (Wooclap y Kaltura). 5. MasterClass in Archivo Histórico nacional
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 50
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 50
Calendar of Continuous assessment
Basic Bibliography
  • AAVV. , La cristalización del pasado: génesis y desarrollo del marco institucional de la Arqueología en España. Málaga. 1997
  • AAVV. El coleccionismo de escultura clásica en España (siglos XVI-XVIII). Madrid. 2001
  • AAVV. Museo Arqueológico Nacional. De Gabinete a Museo. Madrid. 1993
  • AAVV. Museo Arqueológico Nacional. De Gabinete a Museo. Madrid. 1993
  • AAVV. , La cristalización del pasado: génesis y desarrollo del marco institucional de la Arqueología en España. Málaga. 1997
  • AAVV. Museo Arqueológico Nacional. De Gabinete a Museo. Madrid. 1993
  • AAVV. Museo Arqueológico Nacional. De Gabinete a Museo. Madrid. 1993
  • AAVV. , La cristalización del pasado: génesis y desarrollo del marco institucional de la Arqueología en España. Málaga. 1997
  • Alonso Fernández, L. Museología. Introducción a la teoría y práctica del Museo. Madrid. 1993
  • Alonso Fernández, L. Museología. Introducción a la teoría y práctica del Museo. Madrid. 1993
  • Bitzer, J.-Schröder, Ph. J. H. (ed.). The Economics of Open Source Software Development. Amsterdam . 2006
  • Bitzer, J.-Schröder, Ph. J. H. (ed.). The Economics of Open Source Software Development. Amsterdam . 2006
  • Bolaños, Mª. Historia de los museos en España . Gijón. 1997
  • Bolaños, Mª. Historia de los museos en España . Gijón. 1997
  • Cavallo, G. Le strade del testo. Bari . 1987
  • Cavallo, G. Le strade del testo. Bari . 1987
  • Ginsburg, V.-Throsby, D. Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture . North-Holland . 2006
  • Ginsburg, V.-Throsby, D. Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture . North-Holland . 2006
  • Petrucci, A. La descrizione del manoscrito. Storia, problemi, modelli. Roma . 1982
  • Petrucci, A. La descrizione del manoscrito. Storia, problemi, modelli. Roma . 1982
  • Reynolds, L. D. -Wilson, N. G. Copistas y filólogos. Las vías de transmisión de las literaturas griega y latina. . Madrid . 1989
  • Reynolds, L. D. -Wilson, N. G. Copistas y filólogos. Las vías de transmisión de las literaturas griega y latina. . Madrid . 1989
  • Ruiz, Elisa. Manual de Codicología. Madrid. 1988
  • Ruiz, Elisa. Manual de Codicología. Madrid. 1988
  • Thomson, G. El museo y su entorno. Madrid. 1998
  • Thomson, G. El museo y su entorno. Madrid. 1998

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.