Class Museologia e Sociedade

This Curricular Unit is part of the set of curricular units of the Doctorate in Sociomuseology, which correspond to specialized knowledge covering, as a whole, the main areas of knowledge considered fundamental for the construction of the desired profile at the doctorate's level, with a workload of 20 contact hours.

1- Memory and power

• The relations of museology with the contents of memory
• Memory as an element of social cohesion
• Cultural heritage and memory in museums Museums: conflicts, memories and identity.

2-Museum and Society

• Concepts and Interdisciplinarity
• The idea of a museum Perceptions of Museum in contemporary times.

3-Modernization of museum institutions

• Modernity in cultural and heritage institutions
• New forms of museal Action
• Innovative processes
• The new and different functions for the modern museum
• The place of collections and heritage in contemporary museology.

4-The current museum and the new museology

• Action and awareness within a new paradigm
• Cultural identity and democracy
• Open and interactive system
• Institutional views and relationship with UNESCO: Declaration of Santiago de Chile, Declaration of Québec, Declaration of Oaxtepec, Declaration of Caracas.

5-The social operation of the museum

• The museum and its social surroundings
• The object of study of the museu.

Classes in seminar format allow a comprehensive reflection of the problems under discussion. More important than the transmission of knowledge is, in this sense, the attribution of competences based on the reflection and criticism of the themes presented through the debate, oriented around the subjects treated. Experts are invited in the different fields of the treated themes, mostly international, allowing a reflection and criticism of the themes presented through the debate oriented around the treated subjects; promoting a omprehensive reflection on the subjects taught. An international study visit is carried out annually, allowing contact with different realities and forms of action, enabling new perspectives and the sharing of knowledge with different realities. The evaluation is carried out continuously.

• MOUTINHO, M. C. Sobre o Conceiro de Museologia Social. Cadernos de Sociomuseologia ,[S.l.], v. 1, n. 1, 2009. ISSN 1646-3714.
• PRIMO, J. Pensar Contemporaneamente a Museologia. Cadernos de Sociomuseologia , [S.l.], v. 16, n. 16, 2009. ISSN 1646-3714.
• PRIMO, J. O Social como objeto da Museologia. Cadernos de Sociomuseologia , [S.l.], v. 47, n. 3, 2014. ISSN 1646-3714