연세대학교 원주박물관의 인문도시 사업 운영과 지역 협력

Abstract

Public history, which has recently been attracting attention, is a discussion about the social domain in which historical descriptions and representations take place. As a concept that contrasts with academic history of universities and academia, it refers to the totality of formalities related to the public use of historical knowledge that occurs outside of professional academic research areas such as universities, research institutes, and academic societies. Among them, university museums have content and spatial excellence that facilitates the spread of professional academic research results as a contact point between the realm of professional historical research and the wider public realm. The Humanities City project is one of the humanities support projects of the National Research Foundation of Korea, and it is a national support project that is leading the flow of humanities popularization projects in the 2010s. The Humanities City project aims to spread the university's humanities and academic capabilities to society. Yonsei University Wonju Museum was selected for the Humanities City project in Wonju-si, Gangwon-do in 2015, and carried out the project for a total of three years until 2018. For three years, based on wide exchanges with cultural and social groups located in Wonju-si, about 100 humanities lectures were held every year. Several cultural events were held. The number of social and cultural organizations that directly or indirectly participated in this project for three years reached 26. Considering the subject of public history as a being with diversity and openness beyond universities and academic research spaces, the Humanities City Project hosted by the Wonju Museum of Yonsei University is a traditional public historical narrative prior to the creation of public history discourse in that the subject of the project is a university. Formally, it was similar to the method of representation, but it showed a different aspect in content. The 'Humanities City Wonju' project had elements that correspond to the practical meaning of the 'public history' discourse. In terms of the form of reproducing historical narratives, the format of ‘doing history’, which was shared with local historical subjects, was applied beyond the method of unilaterally enlightening society by an authoritative university. Therefore, it can be seen that it fits the concept of ‘production’ based on ‘public’, ‘public’, and ‘sharing’ of ‘public history’.