Exhibitions Management and Curatorship
Main language of instruction: Spanish
Head instructor
The course proposes general training on various aspects of museology and museography, as well as the works to be developed in the museum field and especially to conceptualise and execute exhibitions.
This course aims for the student to acquire skills to approach an exhibition project, from its conception to its materialisation. It has a practical and instrumental approach.
1. To identify the main components that must be taken into account to conceptualise an exhibition.
2. To know the steps, professionals and time required to design, develop and bring an exhibition to life.
3. To know and identify the diversity of museographic resources: objectives, characteristics, potentialities and applications.
4. To acquire the technical-conceptual knowledge to design and prepare patrimonial presentation proposals from a didactic museography perspective.
5. To start working with exhibition production budgets and schedules.
6. To acquire and apply competences related to the evaluation and analysis of proposals for museographic intervention.
1. The exhibition programme: concepts and types of exhibitions.
2. Exhibition spaces.
3. Professionals and professions.
4. Exhibition project.
5. Exhibition management.
6. Exhibition assembly.
7. Communication and promotion.
8. Promotion: didactics and activities.
9. Closure and evaluation.
The course evaluation will be based on the following:
- Preparation of classroom practice sessions. Although they are not part of the evaluation, their correct execution is essential to pass the group project.
- Individual practice project on museographic resources (weight: 40%)
- Preparation of a group project (maximum 4 people), resolving the case worked on in class. (weight: 60%)
It is necessary to pass both the individual practice project and the group project to be able to pass the course.