Theme: How to Improve the Combination of Exhibition and Teaching in Museums
Speaker: Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Relics and Museology, Fudan University, Zhengyi, and Curator of Fudan University Museum
Organizer: Puppet Manchu Palace Museum
Co-sponsors: College of Literature, Northeast Normal University, College of Political Science and Law, College of History and Culture, College of Foreign Languages and College of Computer Science, College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, College of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and College of Economic Management, College of Foreign Languages, Changchun University of Technology, College of Architecture, College of Culture, Changchun University of Technology Creative Industry College, Jilin Provincial Chronicle Compilation Committee, Changchun Museum Alliance Unit
Lecture time: 9:30 a.m. on August 8, 2019
Place of the lecture: Conference Room on the 2nd floor of the Puppet Manchu Palace Museum
Guest Profile:
Mr. Zheng graduated from the Department of Cultural Relics and Museum of Fudan University in 2006 with a bachelor's degree. From 2006 to 2012, he completed a doctoral degree in the Department of Heritage and Museum Science, Fudan University, and served as a visiting scholar in the Department of Museum, George Washington University, USA. He is currently an associate professor of the Department of Cultural Relics and Museum Science of Fudan University, a tutor of postgraduate students, and curator of the Museum of Fudan University. He is also a part-time associate professor of the Archaeological Culture and Museum College of Peking University, a deputy director of the Research Base for the Construction and Management of Chinese Museums, and a member of the Expert Bank of "Grading Assessment Director of the Museum Science Committee of the National Museum Association and other social positions.
Mr. Zheng Yi
Mr. Zheng's main research fields are: Museum exhibition education research, Museum Cultural Industry Development and management research, museum public cultural services research. He has undertaken many projects of national social science funds and provincial and ministerial social science funds, such as "Research on the performance evaluation system of museum public cultural services", "Guidelines for the compilation of Museum annual reports", "Research on the linkage mechanism between public welfare cultural institutions and quality education in primary and secondary schools". Research on Museum Educational Activities, an individual academic monograph, won the National Museum Academic Award for Excellent Academic Achievements in 2016, and published dozens of academic papers in journals and newspapers such as International Museum, Chinese Museum, Cultural Relics World and Chinese Heritage Journal.
Review of the Forum:
Collections are the material basis of museums. Only through education can collections and scientific research achievements be displayed to society, serve social development and embody the social value of an institution. Exhibitions are the most direct and intuitive way for museums to show their collections to the public, as well as the research results of scientists. On the morning of August 8, Professor Zheng Yi, Associate Professor of Cultural Relics and Museology Department of Fudan University and Director of Museum of Fudan University, was invited to hold a special academic lecture on "How to Improve the Combination Level of Exhibition and Teaching in Museums" at the Changchun Cultural Expo Forum sponsored by the Puppet Manchu Palace Museum.
Firstly, the formulation of museum education strategic planning needs to be clear: "education" for institutions, what is it. That is to say, museums should define their educational mission and pay attention to the description of it. Secondly, we need to define who is the "museum audience", which has different classification boundaries in different occasions. Thirdly, a series of definitions of museums, such as the links between education and exhibitions, collections and research fields, should be explored and clarified in the formulation of educational strategic planning. Fourthly, when formulating the strategic plan of Museum education, the external environment of educational activities also needs to be studied. Fifthly, when formulating strategic plans for education, museums must also be aware of their roles in the complex field of education.
At present, there are often cultural differences among curators, researchers and educators. This tension is particularly evident in the whole curatorial team. Curators and researchers often neglect and underestimate the contribution of educators and feel that they lack knowledge and skills related to themes and content. Educators are sometimes dragged into the curatorial team at the last minute. At the same time, educators feel that researchers and curators do not care enough about public access and do not know enough about the audience.
In the United States, because museums emphasize "education" as the common purpose of "collecting, protecting, researching, disseminating, exhibiting" and other basic businesses, the education sector has generally established good cooperative relations with other departments, while giving full play to their expertise. At the beginning of the planning of a special exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History, the curator elaborated on the audience and overall educational objectives of the exhibition in the master plan book. Then, curators, exhibition personnel and personnel of the Ministry of Education discuss how to achieve the above-mentioned educational goals through collection selection and Exhibition design, and define in the exhibition planning book the sub-educational objectives to be achieved by each part of the exhibition content, each group of exhibition relics, each exhibition design and on-site interaction. The Ministry of Exhibition and the Ministry of Education decide on the content and form design of the audience interaction project through joint consultation. It can be said that a successful exhibition is the result of cooperation among curators, exhibition designers and educators. In addition, in a broad sense, museum staff are all responsible for education. They are all members of education work, but educators are experts in this field. Education needs to be more integrated with exhibitions, collections and research. Especially in the process of exhibition planning, we should include educators from the beginning.
Throughout the developed countries, such as Europe and America, the organization and management mode of museum education activities is worth exploring. Although they are based on their own national conditions and pavilions