Art Didactics for Museums
Cultural museum attendant, communication officer, museum guide, exhibition support staff in the organization of cultural events
Characteristics of the course of study
The course aims to assure skills and knowledges designated for producing and managing communication instruments for fruition and enhancement purposes of the historic-artistic and cultural heritage of a territory in its artistic, monumental, museum and industrial archeology dimensions. The Course aims, first of all, at forming organizational and operative abilities for the purpose of setting didactic instruments such as scripts, panels, business sheets, data sheets, didactic labs, videos and other multimedia products in view of an adequate fruition on behalf of the audience (in particular, though not exclusively, infant and of school age) of the artistic goods considered in their material and symbolic dimensions. In second place, the Course aims at forming organizational and operative abilities based on designing and achieving exhibit itineraries, guided itineraries and thematic itineraries for the purpose of advertising the artistic-cultural heritage of the territory.
I Year
- Cultural anthropology (6 CFA)
- Cultural and environmental goods (6 CFA)
- Communication and enhancement of museum collections (8 CFA)
- Museum Teaching I (6 CFA)
- Fundamentals of computer science (4 CFA)
- English (4 CFA)
- Museology and use of exhibition systems I (6 CFA)
- Art pedagogy and didactics I (6 CFA)
- History of ancient art (6 CFA)
- History of medieval art (6 CFA)
- Workshop - Museum staging (2 CFA)
II Year
- Museum Education II (4 CFA)
- Elements of iconology and iconography (4 CFA)
- Ergonomics of exhibitions (6 CFA)
- Advanced English (4 CFA)
- Multimediality for cultural heritage I (5 CFA)
- Art pedagogy and didactics II (4 CFA)
- Multimedia programming I (5 CFA)
- Art semiotics (6 CFA)
- History of modern art (6 CFA)
- Theory of perception and psychology of the form (4 CFA)
- Theories of landscape (6 CFA)
- Work placement activity (6 CFA)
III Year
- Teaching of artistic languages (6 CFA)
- Museum Education III (4 CFA)
- Digital image processing (Photoshop) (4 CFA)
- Aesthetics (6 CFA)
- Communication methods and techniques (4 CFA)
- Multimediality for cultural heritage II (5 CFA)
- Art pedagogy and didactics III (4 CFA)
- Multimedia programming II (5 CFA)
- Contemporary art History (6 CFA)
- Enhancement and management of the archaeological areas and sites (4 CFA)
- Work placement activity (6 CFA)
- Final test (6 CFA)
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Professors
- Alessandro Polo
- Alessia Marsigalia
- Angelo Vigo
- Annamaria Guerrini
- Barbara Scaroni
- Camilla Gualina
- Corrado Saija
- Federica Cavalletti
- Federico Stefanelli
- Francesca Morandini
- Giorgio Azzoni
- Giorgio Presti
- Marina Fumagalli
- Massimiliano Marano
- Maurizio Rinaldi
- Milena Cordioli
- Paolo Sacchini
- Piergiacomo Tomasoni
- Riccardo Bartoletti
Job perspectives
cultural museum attendant, communication officer, museum guide, exhibition support staff in the organization of cultural events
The professional figure outgoing from the didactic course is a museum cultural operator able to create and set up laboratories and didactics spaces finalized to the disclosure of the artistic-cultural heritage both for the permanent collection and the temporary thematic exposition. This figure will be also able to manage laboratories and didactics paths and to structure and show touristic and cultural itineraries or to work in team in institutional nets, based on the interaction between public and private ambits. This professional figure will be able to work in the wide range of museum the museum networks in the territory.
