대학박물관의 전시연계교육 실태와 활성화방안 연구

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the exhibition activities of university museums using their possessions without restricting their activities for academic exploration, research according to their traditional works for exploration and collection, and how to conduct (or manage) education programs in connection with exhibitions. The results of this study can be used to establish new models of university museums for specialization as well as the directions of development of exhibitions and education of university museums. University museums have been faithfully performing their roles as social educational institutes for residents as well as making significant academic contributions investigating relics in the rapid industrialization and urbanization processes. However, it is required to create new paradigms of academic activities combining the education and research functions and to identify new roles in accordance with changes in the social educational environment. As a result, university museums must specialize and manage education programs concentrating their research ability on the basis of the data collected from academic research or exploration of local culture. Investigations by university museums, exhibition of data collected from such investigations, and education programs using the experience from investigations and the data results can be a new learning method. Furthermore, university museums will establish a kind of model of social education, identify the approaches to cooperate with local administrations and cultural foundations through in-depth research on local culture. Therefore, university museums are able to give a model to construct social education systems and develop approaches of cooperation with local administrations in the information network. To this end, it is required to support to develop and conduct museum education programs in connection with exhibitions. For that, it is necessary to support appropriate systems for evaluation plans of the exhibitions of university museums and the education programs related to exhibitions. Furthermore, university will make their efforts to foster their specialized museums by using their collections and education programs as well as connect their qualified cultural contents with unique local culture.