GIMNASIO FEMENINO

AREA: SOCIAL STUDIES

GRADE: SEVENTH
TEACHER: ANGÉLICA SALAZAR RODRÍGUEZ
GUIDE Nº 4 THEME: BASIC CONCEPTS FOR THE SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT
Código: MCAF-011 Versión: 01 Fecha de actualización: 08/02/2018

STUDENT’S NAME: __________________________________________ Date: ____________________ Grade: ______________

Instructions:

1. Read carefully the concepts above.

2. Complete the crossword puzzle.
3. Play the Kahoot to win.

BASIC CONCEPTS OF THE UNIT1

1. Collection: (…) a set of material or intangible objects (works, artefacts, mentefacts, specimens, archive
documents, testimonies etc.) which an individual or an establishment has assembled, classified, selected,
and preserved in a safe setting and usually displays to a smaller or larger audience, according to whether
the collection is public or private.

2. Communication: (…) is the action of conveying information between one or several emitters (E) and one or
several receivers (R) through a channel

3. Curator: produces the scientific project for the exhibition and coordinates the entire project

4. Education: Museum education can be defined as a set of values, concepts, knowledge and practices
aimed at ensuring the visitor’s development; it is a process of acculturation which relies on pedagogical
methods, development, fulfilment, and the acquisition of new knowledge.

5. Ethics: (…) the discussion process aimed at identifying the basic values and principles on which the work of
the museum relies. Ethics lead to the drawing up of principles set out in museums’ codes of ethics (…)

6. Exhibition: (…) refers to the result of the action of displaying something, as well as the whole of that which is
displayed, and the place where it is displayed. (…) It can be organized in an enclosed space, but also in the
open air (in a park or a street) or in situ, that is to say without moving the objects from their original sites
natural, historical or archaeological sites. (…) The place of the exhibition is thus a specific place of social
interaction, the effects of which can be assessed.

7. Exhibit designer: (…) the person with all the skills required to create exhibitions, whether these are situated in
a museum or in a non-museal setting (…)

8. Guide-lecture: who accompanies visitors (most often in groups) through the exhibition galleries, giving them
information about the exhibition and the objects on display, essentially following the principle of guided visits.

9. Heritage: The notion of heritage (patrimonium) in Roman law referred to all the assets received by succession,
assets which, according to law, are inherited by children from fathers and mothers; family assets, as opposed
to assets acquired since marriage. (…) This concept refers to all natural or man-made goods and values,
whether material or intangible, without restriction of time or space, whether they be simply inherited from
the forbears of earlier generations or gathered and preserved to be transmitted to the descendants of future
generations. Heritage is a public good; its preservation must be assumed by the community when individuals
fail to do so. (…)

1Concepts taken by Desvallés and Mairesse, 2009.

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 GIMNASIO FEMENINO
AREA: SOCIAL STUDIES
GRADE: SEVENTH
TEACHER: ANGÉLICA SALAZAR RODRÍGUEZ
GUIDE Nº 4 THEME: BASIC CONCEPTS FOR THE SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENT
Código: MCAF-011 Versión: 01 Fecha de actualización: 08/02/2018

10. Institution: (…) institution refers to an organism that is public or private, established by society to fill a specific
need. The museum is an institution in the sense that it is governed by an identified legal system of public or
private law.

11. Management: Museum management is defined today as the action of ensuring the running of the museum’s
administrative business and, more generally, all the activities which are not directly attached to the specific
fields of museum work (preservation, research and communication). In this regard, museum management
essentially encompasses tasks relating to financial (accounting, management control, finances) and legal
responsibilities, to security and upkeep, to staff management and to marketing as well as to strategic
procedures and the general planning of museum activities.

12. Mediation (interpretation): In the context of the museum, it is the mediation between the museum public
and what the museum gives its public to see (…)

13. Museographer: (…) are responsible for the design and general organisation of the museum and its security,
conservation and restoration facilities along with the exhibition galleries, whether permanent or temporary.

14. Museography: (…) practical or applied aspect of museology, that is to say the techniques which have been
developed to fulfil museal operations, in particular with regard to the planning and fitting out of the museum
premises, conservation, restoration, security and exhibition. The term is regularly used in the French-speaking
world, but rarely in the English-speaking one, where museum practice is preferred.

15. Museology: Etymologically speaking museology is the ‘study of the museum’ (or museum studies), and not
its practice, which is museography.

16. Museum: The term ‘museum’ may mean either the institution or the establishment or the place generally
designed to select, study and display the material and intangible evidence of man and his environment. The
form and the functions of museums have varied considerably over the centuries. Their contents have
diversified, as have their mission, their way of operating and their management.

17. Object: A museum object is something which is musealised; a thing can be defined as any kind of reality in
general. The expression ‘museum object’ could almost be (…) as the museum is not only the place which
shelters objects, but also a place with the principal mission of transforming things into objects.

18. Preservation: In museology, preservation covers all the operations involved when an object enters a
museum, that is to say all the operations of acquisition, entering in the inventory, recording in the catalogue,
placing in storage, conservation, and if necessary restoration.

19. Public: As a noun the word ‘public’ refers to the museum users (the museum public), but also, by extension
from its actual user public, to the whole of the population addressed by the establishment.

20. Research: In the museum, research consists of the intellectual activities and work aimed at discovery,
invention, and the advancement of new knowledge connected with the museum collections, or the
activities it carries out.

List of references

Desvallées, André. Mairesse, François (2009). Key Concepts of Museology. Paris: Armand Colins, International
Committee for Museology.

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