Affiliation(s)
Datong Museum, Datong, Shanxi Province, China
ABSTRACT
A museum is a not-for-profit, permanent institution in
the service of society that researches, collects, conserves, interprets and exhibits
tangible and intangible heritage. In order to effectively integrate public cultural
resources, many museums at home and abroad have begun to explore general branch
museum system. This mode develops rapidly in China and forms many models. However,
the general branch museum system of each museum has its own characteristics. Based
on this, this paper mainly introduced the example of “general branch museum system” of Datong Museum, China. For the time being, Datong Museum is implementing
“general branch museum system”. Datong Museum is located in Shanxi Province, China.
It is a comprehensive museum and now it is a national first-level museum. There
are more than 170,000 cultural relics in Datong Museum. Besides the general one,
the other nine branches have opened to the public. It is different from the National
Museum Wales, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Cathedral Museum Complex in Toscana
District. Led by theme of integration of the main, not only each of the nine branch
museums bears its own specific theme and distinct characteristics, but they also
link and complement each other. In future, we will further explore the exhibitions
of other thematic displays to tell the complete history of Datong, and supplement
the untold historical stories, as well as boost recognition of cultural identity
and cultural confidence of the public.
KEYWORDS
Datong Museum, general branch
museum system, development
Cite this paper
Sociology Study, Nov.-Dec. 2022, Vol. 12, No. 6, 243-248
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