The role of university museums in engineering education
Authors:
- Andrzej Białkiewicz
Abstract
The subject of the article is the activity of museums that exist in many universities. Apart from collecting, protecting and propagating the heritage of a given university, their primary task is to enrich teaching by focusing on humanistic and educational facets, especially in relation to the promotion of the university, its history and selected aspects of science. These activities refer not only to the university community, but extend far beyond it. In this respect, university museums have a centuries-old tradition. The author presents the educational role of university museums based on the example of the activities of the Museum of Cracow University of Technology (CUT), Kraków, Poland. The Museum’s mission was defined as heritage and identity protection. It collaborates with many museums, including university museums. Although the history of individual universities is different as are the contemporary profiles of their teaching and research activities, their museums conduct similar activities.
- Record ID
- CUTa60daedecbdc4ce3a1dd951d770fd698
- Publication categories
- ;
- Author
- Journal series
- Global Journal of Engineering Education, ISSN 1328-3154
- Issue year
- 2021
- Vol
- 23
- No
- 2
- Pages
- 85-91
- Other elements of collation
- fot.; Bibliografia (na s.) - 90; Bibliografia (liczba pozycji) - 4; Oznaczenie streszczenia - Abstr.; Numeracja w czasopiśmie - Vol. 23, No. 2
- Keywords in English
- university museums, Tadeusz Kościuszko, humanistic aspects, engineering education, university heritage, university promotion, exhibitions
- URL
- http://www.wiete.com.au/journals/GJEE/Publish/TOCVol23No2.html Opening in a new tab
- Language
- eng (en) English
- License
- Score (nominal)
- 70
- Additional fields
- Indeksowana w: Scopus
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://cris.pk.edu.pl/info/article/CUTa60daedecbdc4ce3a1dd951d770fd698/
- URN
urn:pkr-prod:CUTa60daedecbdc4ce3a1dd951d770fd698
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