M. A. in Museology Guidelines

Admission to M.A. Course (1st Semester) in Museology shall be opened to candidates who have passed M.A. in History of Art, Ancient Indian History Culture and Archaeology, History, Fine Arts and Sanskrit.

1. 
   M.A. in Museology is a 4 semester course.
   
2. 
   A student is required to earn 80 credits to complete the course.
   
3. 
   A student is required to earn 20 credits each semester.
   
4. 
   There shall be following categories of course offered to students:
   

1. 
   The Departmental Core Course (DCC) - 08
   
2. 
   Major Elective Course : Specialization (MJ. SpC) - 06
   
3. 
   Minor Elective Course : Supporting (ME.SC) - 02
   

5. 
   All the courses of 1st category - DCC shall be compulsory and these 08 courses (papers) will be spread in 4 semesters. 02 courses will be offered in each semester.
   
6. 
   A student may select 06 of the specialization courses from the Major Elective Courses which are offered by the Department.
   
7. 
   The compulsory paper (DCC 08) entitled Internship and Practical Training will be of 100 marks the break-up of which is as follows:
   

1. 
   Internship in a conservation laboratory - 50 marks
   
2. 
   Practical Training in various aspects of Museology - 50 marks
   

Another compulsory paper entitled Project Report, Tour Report, and Viva-voce will be of 100 marks, the break-up of which is as follows:

1. 
   Project Report - 30 marks
   
2. 
   Tour Report - 30 marks
   
3. 
   Viva-voce - 40 marks
   

8. 
   The Break-up of Major Elective Courses (Specialization) will be as under: 2 in 1st & IInd semesters and one each in IIlrd & IVth Semesters.
   
9. 
   In each semester the department will decide and accordingly offer the Major (Specialization) and Minor (Supporting) Electives as per the availability of the teachers and also other requirements.
   
10. 
    The Minor Elective courses (Supporting) may be selected from any of the courses offered under this category by the department and/ or any other department in IIIrd and IVth semesters. The details of courses for Minor Elective papers will be prepared by the teacher concerned which will then be approved by the department for teaching of paper. Some of the intensive courses offered by the Institution/Departments/Faculties of B.H.U. and outside (such as Janana–Pravaha, Parsvanath Vidyapitha, Sampurnand Sanskrit University) may also be taken up under Minor Electives (Supporting) with the credit to be decided on the basis of teaching hours. Besides the department can offer supporting courses in IIIrd and IVth semester such courses which could not be offered in first two semesters.
    

11. 
    Each course shall be of 100 marks.
    
12. 
    For evaluation 30% shall be allotted to internal assessment - over all performance of student in tutorials, seminars etc.
    
13. 
    70% marks shall be allotted for the semester end examinations.
    
14. 
    The Board of Studies in Museology empowers the Teacher's Council of Museology to make necessary additions to update the syllabus in case of exigency to sustain the true spirit of semester system, which may subsequently be approved by the Board of Studies and other bodies.
    
15. 
    All the categories of the courses proposed by the department are as follows:
    

1. 
   History or Museums and collections, (methodology and strategy)
   
2. 
   Documentation, Presentation and Interpretation.
   
3. 
   Indian Painting - Categories of Collections in Museums.
   
4. 
   Museum Management and Administration.
   
5. 
   Aspects of Indian Sculpture / Iconography.
   
6. 
   Project Report, Tour Report and Viva-voce.
   
7. 
   Museum Conservation and Preservation.
   
8. 
   Internship/Practical Training.
   

1. 
   Two core courses as detailed above will be taken up in each of 4 semesters.
   
2. 
   Major Elective: Specialization Course (MJ SPC)
   

1. 
   Museum Education and Research.
   
2. 
   Computer Application in Museum.
   
3. 
   Indian Art Philosophy.
   
4. 
   Museum and Public Relation.
   
5. 
   New Museology and conditions in Indian Museum.
   
6. 
   Traditional Textiles - major types.
   
7. 
   Museum Architecture Storage and Security.
   
8. 
   Exhibition and their handling (in shifting, lifting).
   
9. 
   Decorative Arts of India (metal, ivory, jewellery / ornaments).
   
10. 
    Expanding Dimensions of Museum and Museology.
    
11. 
    Science and Anthropological Museums.
    

Two specialization courses will be offered respectively in 1st and IInd semester with option while in IIIrd and IVth semesters one specialization will be offered with two minor electives (supporting) out of 09 proposed minor electives (supporting).

1. 
   Minor Elective : Supporting Course (MESC) :
   

1. 
   Archaeological sites and monuments in India.
   
2. 
   Museum Photography.
   
3. 
   Promotion and Awareness of Regional Art, Culture and Literature through Museum.
   
4. 
   Tourism Management and Museum Visit.
   
5. 
   Land Marks of Indian Art.
   
6. 
   Fundamentals of Art and Aesthetics.
   
7. 
   Study of coins.
   
8. 
   Study of scripts and epigraphs.
   
9. 
   Terracotta and Pottery.
   

Two specialization courses will be offered respectively in Ist and IInd semesters with option while in IIIrd and IVth semesters one specialization will be offered with two minor electives (supporting) out of 09 proposed minor electives (supporting).

1. 
   General Principles of Museum.
   
   1. 
      Definition and scope of Museum.
      
   2. 
      History of museums / Museum Movement (Indian sub continent, Europe and Western-Hemisphere).
      
2. 
   Functions of Museums:
   
   1. 
      Collection
      
   2. 
      Identification
      
   3. 
      Preservation
      
   4. 
      Documentation
      
   5. 
      Presentation (Exhibition)
      
   6. 
      Research
      
   7. 
      Educational activities
      
3. 
   Various Types of Museums and New Museum trends:
   
4. 
   Legislations concerning Museums and Professional Bodies.
   
5. 
   Nature of Collections and Modes of Acquisition.
   

1. 
   Documentation:
   

1. 
   Accessioning.
   
2. 
   Operation of incoming and outgoing objects
   
3. 
   Marking and numbering
   
4. 
   Re-accessioning
   
5. 
   De-accessioning
   
6. 
   Daybook
   
7. 
   Historic file
   
8. 
   Digital Documentation
   

1. 
   General Principals of Presentation : Communicative aspect
   
   1. 
      Galleries: Nature and Scope
      
   2. 
      Types of exhibition
      
   3. 
      Organization of exhibition
      
   4. 
      Purpose
      
   5. 
      Programming
      
   6. 
      Object selection
      
   7. 
      Lay-out scale model
      
   8. 
      Consideration of audience
      
   9. 
      Exhibit texts
      

1. 
   Exhibition equipments :
   
   1. 
      Show-cases
      
   2. 
      Pedestals
      
   3. 
      Audio-Visual aids
      
   4. 
      Lighting
      
   5. 
      Role of designing agencies for high tech display
      
   6. 
      Lebelling / signage
      
   7. 
      Publicity
      

1. 
   Principles of design communication and interpretation:
   
   1. 
      Exhibitions : Thematic versus integral Geographic versus chronological
      
   2. 
      Type of visitors and their behaviour patterns.
      

1. 
   Origin & development of Indian Painting:
   

1. 
   Rock painting
   
2. 
   Pre-Historic Art
   
3. 
   Ajanta
   

2. 
   Pre Mughal style:
   

1. 
   Manuscript painting :- Eastern Indian
   
2. 
   Manuscript painting :- Western Indian
   

3. 
   Mughal styles:
   

1. 
   Akbar
   
2. 
   Jahangir
   
3. 
   Shah Jahan
   
4. 
   Technique of Mughal Painting.
   

4. 
   Regional styles:
   

• 
  Deccani style
  
• 
  Rajasthani style
  

1. 
   Bundi
   
2. 
   Mewar
   
3. 
   Malwa
   
4. 
   Kishangarh
   
5. 
   Kota
   
6. 
   Nathdwara
   

1. 
   Basohli
   
2. 
   Kullu
   
3. 
   Mandi
   
4. 
   Guler
   
5. 
   Jasrota
   
6. 
   Garhwal
   
7. 
   Kangra
   

1. 
   Location and Surrounding of Museums
   

1. 
   Selection or site
   
2. 
   Surrounding
   
3. 
   Use of space, design
   
4. 
   Planning
   
5. 
   Construction of museum
   
6. 
   Special Problems (war. flood, fire & earth quake etc.)
   
7. 
   Contact with professional agencies.
   

2. 
   Administration Frame work:
   

1. 
   Principles
   
2. 
   Legal status
   
3. 
   Administrative units
   
4. 
   Controlling bodies
   
5. 
   Committee
   
6. 
   Role of Director
   
7. 
   Appointment of museum personnel and their duties
   

3. 
   Budget :
   

1. 
   Sources of income
   
2. 
   Budget
   

4. 
   Policy of Museum and Work Planning
   

1. 
   Planning
   
2. 
   Collection Insurance
   
3. 
   Annual Report
   
4. 
   Museum storage including visual storage
   

5. 
   Museum Marketing:
   

1. 
   Concept
   
2. 
   Scope
   
3. 
   Implementation
   

1. 
   Indian Sculpture – Media based classification
   

1. 
   Stone
   

2. 
   Chronology & Style
   

1. 
   Indus valley
   
2. 
   Yaksha Images
   
3. 
   Mauryan Capitals
   
4. 
   Sunga & Satavahana (Bharhut, Sanchi, Amaravati)
   
5. 
   Kushan (Mathura & Gandhara)
   
6. 
   Gupta (Sarnath & Mathura)
   

1. 
   Stone Sculpture : Early Medieval & Medieval Periods
   

1. 
   Chalukya
   
2. 
   Pallava
   
3. 
   Rashtrakuta
   
4. 
   Pratihara
   
5. 
   Chandella
   
6. 
   Chola
   
7. 
   Hoyasala
   

1. 
   Metal Sculpture :
   

1. 
   Indus valley
   
2. 
   Gupta
   
3. 
   Eastern India
   
4. 
   Chola
   

1. 
   Iconographic, classification & identification
   

• 
  Brahminical iconography
  
• 
  Buddhist iconography
  
• 
  Jain iconography
  

1. 
   General Principles of Conservation :
   

1. 
   Preventive measures
   
2. 
   Curative measures
   

1. 
   Analysis of collected materials and preventive conservation
   

1. 
   Organic and inorganic objects
   
2. 
   Physical, chemical and biological changes – glass, metal, painting, paper, stone, textile, wood and miscellaneous material
   
3. 
   Basic preventive conservation – cleaning and simple treatment
   
4. 
   Causes of deterioration
   

1. 
   Preservation of Museum objects:
   

1. 
   Restoration
   
2. 
   Temperature
   
3. 
   Humidity
   
4. 
   Pollution
   
5. 
   Effects of light, mold, mildew insects etc.
   
6. 
   Emergency conservation/first aid.
   
7. 
   Proper environmental condition – exhibits, storage, travelling exhibits.
   

1. 
   Care and Handling of Museum Objects:
   

1. 
   Movement – crating and packing
   
2. 
   Proper mounting
   

5. 
   Basic Infrastructure of a Museum’s Conservation Laboratory
   

1. 
   Educational Responsibilities of the Museum:
   

2. 
   Programmes:
   

1. 
   Education of Children/Adults/Challenged and Special groups.
   
2. 
   Extension programmes Museum kit, Museum trailor, sending museum staff etc.
   

3. 
   Research:
   

1. 
   Research in the Museums.
   
2. 
   Research on Exhibits.
   
3. 
   Concept of Team Research
   
4. 
   Catalogues, Periodicals
   
5. 
   Museum Library
   
6. 
   Slide Library
   
7. 
   Publications.
   

1. 
   Computer in museums.
   
2. 
   Use of computer in exhibition designing/exhibits.
   
3. 
   Use of different software, websites, multimedia etc.
   
4. 
   Retrievale of information about important museums of the world.
   
5. 
   Communication through E-mail and conferencing about the museums and its activities of the world.
   

1. 
   General Principles.
   
2. 
   Press Release news stories and promotional activities involving newspaper, magazine, cable network, television and video films.
   
3. 
   Museum as a Public Facilities:
   

4. 
   Types of Facilities:
   

1. 
   Book shops, sales counters, plaster-cards, folders, post-cards etc.
   
2. 
   Auditorium, lecture room, music theatre.
   

5. 
   Comfort of Visitors:
   

1. 
   Seats, coffee shops, restaurants, facility for challanged visitors.
   
2. 
   Membership organization and friends of the museum.
   
3. 
   Docent Service.
   

1. 
   New Museology – A fresh approach.
   
2. 
   New Museology and the traditional museums.
   
3. 
   New Museology for India.
   

1. 
   Museum Architecture
   

1. 
   Provision of auxiliary services in museum design
   
2. 
   Museum hygiene
   
3. 
   Effective use of old and traditional building
   

2. 
   Storage
   

1. 
   Museum storage – condition
   
2. 
   Organic and inorganic objects
   
3. 
   Visual storage
   

3. 
   Security
   

1. 
   Security personnel
   
2. 
   Security measures
   
3. 
   Security against theft
   
4. 
   Human vandalism
   
5. 
   War and Riot etc.
   

1. 
   Inspection of venue
   
2. 
   Collections
   
3. 
   Consolidation
   
4. 
   Photography
   
5. 
   Agreement
   
6. 
   Permission from experts
   
7. 
   Clearance from competent bodies
   
8. 
   Weight and measurement
   
9. 
   Listing and description
   
10. 
    Insurance
    
11. 
    Packing
    
12. 
    Loading, Unloading
    
13. 
    Mover agency
    
14. 
    Airlifting/shipment
    
15. 
    Excort
    
16. 
    Handling over/checking
    
17. 
    Safe return
    

New Technological Advancement in the field of security, display, exhibition and communication.

1. 
   Necessity of science museum.
   
2. 
   History of science museum.
   
3. 
   Role of models in creating science gallery
   
4. 
   Space for experiments and interaction with public and students.
   

1. 
   What is Anthropology
   
2. 
   Presentation of evolution of Man
   
3. 
   Tribes in India and their life.
   
4. 
   Ways of Presentation of tribal life (maps, charts, objects, diramas and electronic devices etc.
   
5. 
   Important Anthropological museums in India and abroad.
   

1. Allechin, B.R. : The Birth of Indian Civilization

2. Kroebar, A.C. : Anthropology

3. Chakraborti, M. & : Indian Tribes

Mukherji, Dipak

4. Burkih, M.C. : The Early Ancestors

1. 
   Metal Craft
   
2. 
   Ivory
   
3. 
   A brief history of Indian jewellary/ornaments.
   

Hand Embroidered Textiles

1. 
   Fulkari
   
2. 
   Chamba Rumal
   
3. 
   Kantha
   
4. 
   Chikan work
   

1. 
   Bandhani
   
2. 
   Ikat
   

1. 
   Banaras Brocade
   
2. 
   Kashmiri Shawl
   
3. 
   Malmal & Jamdani
   

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  Principals of Indian Art