Scientific museography

This course includes four hours of tutorials during which students learn about the basic concepts that define scientific museums (status, types, missions, audiences, collection, conservation, exhibition, education, and research functions) as well as the professions associated with them.
These classes are followed by 11 hours of fieldwork during which students take guided tours of scientific collections and museums (botanical gardens, herbariums, zoos, aquariums, museums, etc.), with a focus on scenography, visitor routes, and mediation devices.

The aim of this course is to introduce students to the world of scientific museography and give them the keys to interacting with professionals in the field as ecologists or ecology mediators. By the end of this course, students should be familiar with:
1. the roles of different museum professionals
2. the basic concepts that define museum institutions: collections, cataloging, conservation, exhibitions, audiences, visitor routes, etc.
3. scientific communication tools and the rules for writing museum texts.

Knowledge assessment: 100% CC