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Terminated in academic year 2017/2018

Technical Cultural Monuments

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 541-0055/02
Abbreviation TKP
Course title Technical Cultural Monuments
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Martin Klempa, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction to monuments preservation.
2. Definition and categorization of technical monuments and technical culture monuments.
3. Proportioning of technical culture monuments based on field of human activities. 4. Signification of technical culture monuments for understanding of development and level of techniques in some period of our history.
5. Problems of technical monuments investigation, accounting and utilization.
6. Industry architecture.
7. Summary of best know techniques museums on all over the world and in the Czech republic – characterization.
8. National Technical Museum in Prague.
9. Technical culture monuments pair with development of coal mining in the Czech Republic.
10. Technical culture monuments pair with development of ore mining in the Czech republic.
11. Technical monuments mapping relationships of people to ferrous metallurgy in the Czech Republic.
12. Technical monuments mapping relationships of people to transport systems.
13. Technical monuments of light industries (agriculture, windmills, watermills, papering, weaving, etc.)

Literature

KLEMPA, M.; et al. (2022): Geo-Mining Heritage of the Upper Silesian Coal Basin at the Czech and Polish Border - Pictorial Guide. Marionetti Press Ostrava, ISBN: 978-80-905737-3-4.
OTGAAR, A. H. J.; VAN DEN BERG, L.; BERGER, CH.; FENG, R. X. (2010): Industrial Tourism: Opportunities for City and Enterprise. EURICUR Series: European Institute for Comparative Urban Research, ISBN: 978-1409402206 .

Advised literature

OEVERMANN, H., MIEG, H. A. (ed.) (2014): Industrial Heritage Sites in Transformation: Clash of Discourses. London, New York: Routledge, ISBN: 978-0415745284 .