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Evans, Colleen R. "Developing a Collection Digitization Workflow for the Elm Fork Natural Heritage Museum." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2013. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500042/.
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Natural history collections house immense amounts of data, but the majority of data is only accessible by locating the collection label, which is usually attached to the physical specimen. This method of data retrieval is time consuming and can be very damaging to fragile specimens. Digitizing the collections is the one way to reduce the time and potential damage related to finding the collection objects. The Elm Fork Natural Heritage Museum is a natural history museum located at the University of North Texas and contains collections of both vertebrate and invertebrate taxa, as well as plants. This project designed a collection digitization workflow for Elm Fork by working through digitizing the Benjamin B. Harris Herbarium. The collection was cataloged in Specify 6, a database program designed for natural history collection management. By working through one of the museum’s collections, the project was able to identify and address challenges related to digitizing the museum’s holdings in order to create robust workflows. The project also produced a series of documents explaining common processes in Specify and a data management plan.
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Meyer, Morgan B. "Partially connected to science : the Luxembourg Museum of Natural History and its scientific collaborators." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.434528.
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Alberti, Samuel John Matthew Mayer. "Field, lab and museum : the practice and place of life science in Yorkshire, 1870-1904." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2001. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3512/.
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Later Victorian Yorkshire was home to a vigorous community of life science practitioners. In studying them, I reassess three dichotomies familiar to the contextualist historian of Victorian science: field and laboratory, science and society, and amateur and professional. I outline the refashioning of amateur and professional roles in life science, and I provide a revised historiography for the relationship between amateurs and professionals in this area and era. While exploring these issues, I examine the complex net of cultural and educational institutions where the sites for the practice of life science emerged and existed. Natural history practices shaded imperceptibly into other facets of civic culture. I present natural history as a leisure activity and as a resource utilised by the maturing provincial middle classes, one of a range of cultural activities within a network of voluntary associations. This thesis is arranged by institution: philosophical society, museum, civic college and field club. Each of these corresponds, loosely, to a site for science: respectively, lecture hall, museum, laboratory and field. The traditional `field versus lab' historiography ignores the many and varied sites for life science in this era, and conceals how far field-based natural history endured alongside the laboratory as it emerged as the hegemonic site for life science. I explore these and other issues by using the career of Louis C. Miall (1842-1921) as a narrative thread. Despite his activities as a lecturer, curator, field club president and laboratory biologist, Mall sought to construct a professional identity based solely on the authority of the laboratory, in contrast to that of the amateur naturalist. To take his partisan rhetoric at face value, however, is to ignore the variety and vitality of life science practices in Victorian Yorkshire.
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Lin, Wen-Ling. "Understanding organisational change in museums : an investigation of evolving museum priorities and practices at the National Museum of Natural Science, Taiwan." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/41221.
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In this time of rapid political, economic, social and technological change, museums of all kinds face continuous pressures and demands from a variety of stakeholders. These demands are frequently competing (or at least in tension), arising from the different agendas, interests and requirements of diverse stakeholders which, in turn, raise questions around the purposes and priorities of museums. Although many literatures have contributed to the discussion around the museum’s purpose, there remains a lack of in-depth, grounded analysis that explores museums’ structures, processes, and practices and the role of individuals and broader forces for change in the making and reshaping of the organisation. In short, there has been relatively little scholarly attention given to the study of the museum as an ever-changing, dynamic and complex organisation. Drawing on organisational change studies, management theories and museum studies, this thesis seeks to understand the processes that contribute to the reshaping of the museum’s purpose, priorities and practices by staff and other agents through a qualitative investigation of change within a single institution. The aims of the research are to better understand the role of leadership in the process of change and the dynamic attitudes, values and power relations that underpin such processes. In order to explore the hidden complexities of the internal workings in the museum, this paper employs a single case study - the National Museum of Natural Science (NMNS) in Taiwan – that was investigated through an organisational ethnography approach. This thesis focuses on two main forces for change. One is the increasing influence of market forces that encourage the museum to move towards more business-like practices. The other is a growing appreciation of the social responsibility of the museum. These two predominantly external forces play out in a different ways and, at the same time, emerge as significant factors which influence the museum’s move away from traditional functions and conventional works and practices. By revealing various values, interests and power dynamics intersecting at the organisational and personal levels, the thesis aims to contribute an enhanced understanding of how and why change occurs in museums and how potentially competing interests can be negotiated.
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Tsai, Binghuan. "A museum of nature and science: the shaping of forms." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52126.
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Structures of perfect symmetry, order, and beauty exist in both discoveries of science and objects found in natures. With careful observation and analysis, creative applications of these interesting forms can be and have been applied in many architectural structures with great success.
In this project the utilization of these forms can not only bring out the purpose of this Museum of Nature and Science, but because these forms are derived from natural studies, they can also give viewers a sense of familiarity and peacefulness.Master of Architecture
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Yang, Qingshan. "The economic value of museums : a case study of the National Museum of Natural Science, Taiwan." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.398953.
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Chalk, Hannah-Lee. "The uses, meanings, and values of natural objects : university earth science objects and collections as material culture." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-uses-meanings-and-values-of-natural-objects-university-earth-science-objects-and-collections-as-material-culture(805f7b45-6b8b-4399-8e27-934442aa68d2).html.
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As an academic discipline, the earth sciences generate, use, and retain vast quantities of objects. This ‘material archive’ exists, first and foremost, as a functional scientific resource; the objects that it contains were never intended to express culture. Since the earth sciences rely heavily on claims that its objects of study remain the same as they were in nature, it follows that the specimens contained in university earth science collections are treated as objective scientific evidence. In this sense, the material that is collected, used and retained by earth scientists may appear to be devoid of culture – passive, inert and neutral.This thesis sets out to challenge these assumptions by treating university earth science objects and collections as material culture. In material culture studies, geological materials appear in a variety of different forms and contexts, however, such work has tended to focus on either their occurrence in the landscape, or their use as raw materials from which objects are made. Thus, while the earth sciences provide an abundant source of ‘material’ for material culture studies, rarely (if at all) do they seem to provide the culture. Furthermore, while the treatment of ‘natural’ objects as cultural artefacts has become increasingly popular in museology, much of this work has concentrated on the processes and practices that are enacted on these things in museums. Museology has therefore tended to consider these things in what effectively corresponds to their retirement, meaning that with few exceptions, little attention has been paid to their active use as functional scientific objects. This research explores the implications of treating university earth science objects and collections as material culture through the empirical investigation of contemporary object-related practices in UK earth science departments and university museums. As such this thesis addresses questions surrounding the relevance of existing theories and methods, in both material culture studies and museology, for exploring natural scientific objects and collections. These questions are approached through four thematic chapters concerned with the coming into being of earth science objects, their transformation into collection items, their functions, and their mobility.
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Silva, Mauricio Candido da. "Musealização da natureza: exposições em museu de história natural como representação cultural." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16133/tde-27012014-110902/.
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Uma das principais características das exposições museológicas é o seu potencial de representatividade histórico-cultural, sobretudo quando dirigimos nossa atenção aos museus de história natural dos séculos XIX e XX, período de constituição do museu público, impulsionado pelos discursos nacionalistas, civilizatórios e modernizantes. A análise de projetos expositivos desse contexto possibilita inferir que o novo modelo de museu é resultado da busca do equilíbrio entre os estudos científicos desenvolvidos através das coleções de pesquisa e as formas efetivas de instrução pública. Centenas de museus foram construídos enquanto outros reformaram suas áreas técnicas e administrativas, de forma a atender os novos parâmetros estabelecidos pelos programas museológicos, arquitetonicamente definidos como área restrita de pesquisa e área restrita da exposição pública. As exposições museológicas abertas à visitação ganharam impulso a partir de uma perspectiva objetiva. Os recursos comunicacionais, que nasceram e se desenvolveram nestes museus, reforçam o sentido da educação popular a partir da leitura do discurso expositivo presente nas narrativas polissêmicas estabelecidas nos novos espaços de consagração da ciência. O objeto museológico, o espaço museal e o público das exposições formam a base desse fenômeno moderno de comunicação. A modernidade forjada tanto pela Revolução Industrial quanto pela Revolução Francesa gerou este tipo de organização institucional que, por meio da reunião de objetos extraídos do mundo natural, como referências patrimoniais, registros documentais e testemunhos materiais, assumiu a responsabilidade pela conservação, pesquisa e difusão de uma nova visão sobre a natureza, a partir de critérios científicos. A este processo de seleção, de transferência de elementos naturais para o interior dos museus, para composição de coleções e cenários museais didáticos, foi cunhada a ideia de Musealização da Natureza. Essa proposição deve ser entendida pela abrangência do percurso da nova vida do objeto, enfocando as formas de representação do mundo natural por esta tipologia de museu, apresentando em seus sistemas comunicacionais uma natureza compartimentada, classificada e reconhecida. Com o desenvolvimento e aplicação de diferentes recursos expositivos, sobretudo os dioramas, os museus de história natural passaram a preencher as salas expositivas com uma museotecnia nascida na Europa, que ganhou forte e determinante impulso nos Estados Unidos e se difundiu por todo o mundo, inclusive no Brasil. Com a instalação de cenários de ambientes naturais, didaticamente preparados, consolidou-se no museu público uma nova forma de olhar para o mundo natural: uma forma científica. É justamente no limiar da ciência moderna, que os museus de história natural se proliferam e declaradamente passam a se preocupar com a popularização da ciência. Os processos modernos de produção econômica transformaram definitivamente a relação do homem com o mundo natural. Ao mesmo tempo, estabeleceram novas formas de vivência com a natureza, seja através de parques naturais, jardins ou mesmo pelas exposições museológicas com seus dioramas, aqui considerados como verdadeiras janelas para o mundo natural.One of the main characteristics of museum exhibitions is its potential historical and cultural representativeness, especially when we focus our attention on the museums of natural history of the 19th and 20th centuries. Those were periods of constitution of the public museum that was driven by nationalistic, civilization and modern speeches. The analysis of exhibition projects in that context makes it possible to infer that the new model of museum is the result of the search for balance between scientific studies developed through the research collections and the effective ways of public instruction. Hundreds of museums were built while others reformed their technical and administrative areas in a way they could attend the new parameters established by the museum programs that were defined as restricted area for research and restricted area for public exhibition. Museum exhibitions opened to visiting won strength based on a focused perspective. Communicational resources that had been born and had developed in those museums reinforced the sense of popular education based on the reading of the exhibition speech that were present in the multifaceted narratives established in the new spaces of consecration of science. The museum object, the museum space and the exhibition\"s public form the basis of this modern phenomenon of communication. The modernity forged by the Industrial Revolution as well as the French Revolution generated this kind of organizational institution that - by the means of reuniting objects extracted from the natural world such as heritage references, document data and material testimonies - have assumed the responsibility for the conservation, research and diffusion of a new vision about the nature based on scientific criteria. To that process of selection and transfer of natural elements to the interior of museums to form didactic museum collection and scenarios was coined the idea of Musealization of Nature. This proposition must be understood by the comprehensiveness of the path of the new life of the object focusing the ways of representing the natural world by this typology of museum and presenting in its communicational systems a compartmentalized, classified and recognized nature. With the development and application of different exhibition resources, especially the dioramas, the natural history museums began to fill the exhibition rooms with a museumtechnique born in Europe that gained strong and determining strength in the United States and had spread all over the world including Brazil. With the installation of scenarios of natural environments that were didactically prepared, a new way of looking to the natural world in the public museum were consolidated: the scientific way. It is precisely on the threshold of modern science that the museums of natural history proliferate and reportedly began to worry about the popularization of science. The modern process of economic production definitely transformed the relationship between man and natural world. At the same time thei established new ways of living the nature whether through natural parks or gardens or even through museum exhibitions with its dioramas that we consider in this research as are true windows to the natural world.
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Rieppel, Lukas Benjamin. "Dinosaurs: Assembling an Icon of Science." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10557.
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This dissertation examines how the modern dinosaur—fully mounted, freestanding assemblages of vertebrate fossils such as we are accustomed to seeing at the natural history museum—came into being during the late 19th and early 20th century, focusing especially on the United States. But it is not just, or even primarily a history of vertebrate paleontology. Rather, I use dinosaurs as an opportunity to explore how science was embedded in broader changes that were happening at the time. In particular, I am interested in tracing how the culture of modern capitalism—the ideals, norms, and practices that governed matters of value and exchange—manifested itself in the way fossils were collected, studied, and put on display. During the second half of the 19th century, America experienced an extended period of remarkable economic growth. By the eve of WWI, it had emerged as the world’s largest producer of goods and services. At the same time, paleontologists were unearthing the fossil remains of marvelous creatures the likes of which no one had ever dreamed in the American west. The discovery of dinosaurs like Brontosaurus, Stegosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, and Triceratops prompted the nation’s wealthy elite to begin cultivating an intense interest in vertebrate paleontology. In part, this is because dinosaurs meshed well with a conventional narrative that celebrated American exceptionalism. Dinosaurs from the United States were widely heralded as having been larger, fiercer, and more abundant than their European counterparts. Not only that, but their origins in the deep past meant that dinosaurs were associated with evolutionary theory, including the conventional notion that struggle was at the root of progress. Finally, it did not hurt that America’s best fossils hailed from places like Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah. This is precisely where most of the raw materials consumed by factories could also be found. As they coalesced into a coherent social class, American capitalists began to patronize a number of elite cultural institutions. Just as Gilded Age entrepreneurs invested considerable resources in the acquisition of artworks, so too did they invest in natural history. However, whereas the acquisition of artworks functioned as a display of refined aesthetic sensibilities, the collection of natural history specimens primarily represented another form of social distinction, one that combined epistemic virtues like objectivity with older notions of good stewardship and civic munificence. Capitalists who had grown rich off of the exploitation of America’s natural resources turned to dinosaur paleontology as a form of cultural resource extraction.History of Science
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Hansson, Elisabeth. "Meningsskapande i utställningen : En komparativ etnografisk fallstudie av förskolegruppers multimodala kommunikation vid ett Naturhistoriskt museum och ett Science center." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-132979.
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Som övergripande syfte vill denna studie undersöka hur två förskolegrupper kan meningsskapa i två olika utställningar genom att beskriva, analysera och jämföra dessa två förskolegruppers multimodala kommunikation vid utställningsbesök. Genom syftet vill denna studie ge ökad kunskap om multimodal kommunikation hos två förskolegrupper i två olika utställningar. I syftet ingår att studien önskar öka kunskapen om hur semiotiska resurser kan användas och vad som fokuseras genom språkbruk, som kommunikativa villkor för lärande i utställningar. Studien har en design av en komparativ etnografisk fallstudie. Videoinspelningar, MP-3 ljudinspelningar, deltagande observation och fältanteckningar har använts som instrument för datainsamling. Genom strategiska urval valdes 11 stycken treåriga förskolebarn och tre pedagoger för att besöka en utställning vid Naturhistoriska Museet och nio femåriga förskolebarn med två pedagoger for att besöka en utställning vid Tom Tits Experiment (science center). Det insamlade materialet transkriberades multimodalt och kunde därefter analyseras som text. Multimodal interaktionsanalys (Norris 2004, 2014) och ett språkbruksraster (Rostvall & West 2001) användes för analys. Resultatet visade markanta skillnader mellan utställningarna. Av den multimodala interaktionsanalysen visade utställningen vid ett science center en bredare användning av semiotiska resurser, då alla artefakters meningserbjudanden var både visuella och taktila, en del artefakter erbjöd även auditiva meningserbjudanden. Språkbruket i samma utställning var mycket varierat och barnen anmodade varandra. Slutsatsen blir av detta att förskolegruppernas a) meningsskapande villkoras av språkbruk och att b) om meningsskapandet ska ske i samarbete ökas den möjligheten dess mer symmetriska de sociala relationerna är.
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Eliasson, Pär. "Platsens blick : Vetenskapsakademien och den naturalhistoriska resan 1790-1840." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Humanistiska fakulteten, 1999. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-61313.
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The purpose of the present dissertation is to study the relationship between travel as a form of knowledge and the natural history pursued at the Royal Academy of Science during the period 1790-1840. Primarily, this dissertation deals with the perception of travel as a form of knowledge which existed at the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, though a number of selected journeys are used to illustrate the era's shifting perceptions on travel. Chapter One compares two variants of scientific travel, Linnean and Humboldtian. While the Linnean saw single objects, the Humboldtian saw "the whole" in the form of places. Places became the new study objects and the conditions reigning there were assumed to explain the special characteristics of the objects. This is what is implied by the "place's glance". Chapter Two provides an historical background to the subsequent debate about the theory and practice of scientific travel by scrutinizing works from the apodemic handbook genre. The purpose of apodemics was to make travel a method for the disciplined, systematic gathering of knowledge, which was achieved by organizing all aspects into categories.. In Chapter Three, the natural history of the day is understood as a multiplicity of research traditions with a common object of study - the specimens found in the three kingdoms of nature. A number of models of scientific collection which were applied by the Academy around 1800 are analyzed. The correspondent model using local amateur collectors is contrasted with the model of the travelling professional scientist. The greatest problem of the travel model was the "route problematic", engendering a haphazardness in the collection of facts and specimens. In Chapter Four, the relationship between travel and the theories of natural history of the age is investigated through a case study of Göran Wahlenberg's travels in 1800-1810. As a result of the insights Wahlenberg achieved during his travels in the mountain regions of the land, the new botanical sub- discipline of plant geography was established. This demanded travel, since it was based on observations of the plants' spatial relationships to one another and measurements of other specific spatial phenomena, such as climate. Wahlenberg saw complex, multifacetted aggregates of plants and vegetation, where the Linnean only discerned separate species. Herein lies the meaning of the "place's glance". Chapter Five analyzes the botanical journeys undertaken by the Academy between 1820 (when a travel grant was instituted) and 1840. Patriotic and utilitarian arguments for domestic travel combined with their results lent scientific travel a new status at the Academy. Chapter Six deals with zoological travel during the same period. The main figures are the curators of the Swedish Museum of Natural History, J. W. Dalman and B. F. Fries, who formulated the zoological travel policy of the Academy. The needs of the museum dictated that the travellers focus on Sweden and Scandinavia, primarily the "Western seaboard", which included Bohuslän and the Norwegian Atlantic coast, and Norrland. The specific needs of marine biology forced Fries to develop new travel practices. Fries' establishment of a provisional research station for year-round zoological research was an important historical breakthrough. His idea of outfitting sea-going vessels as mobile research stations also prefigures the future development of polar travel later in the century.digitalisering@umu
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Harmon, Amanda Lauren Leslie. "Herbarium Collections Management Internship." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1524744021639645.
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Yocco, Victor Samuel. "Exploring the Effects of Communication Framed by Environmental Concern in Informal Science Education Contexts." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1284688743.
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Österberg, Bodil, and Gillberg Jenny Storm. "Eleverna och den geologiska tiden : Museipedagogers arbete ur ett designteoretiskt perspektiv." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-30234.
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This study aims to apply a design theoretical perspective on museum educators in a natural sciencemuseum to see which didactic choices they make. This study proceeds from the following questions: How is the scientific content of the exhibition orchestrated? Which semiotic resources do the museum educators uses? How do the museum tutors reason for their didactic choices? The study is based on seven observations of five different museum educators teaching seven different classes in the younger ages in one specific exhibition. It is also based on one interview with three of the museum educators. The design theory of learning, which is the theory that this study is analysed through, is mostly based on the studies by Staffan Selander and Gunther Kress (2010). The result of the investigation shows, in short, that the scientific content is orchestrated like a journey through time where different sceneries represent the geological ages of the earth. The museum educators uses a combination of multiple semiotic resources. The interview showed what the museum educators wanted to be the key words in their teaching: understanding, curiosity, desire, to arouse interest and willingness to take on the science glasses and ask yourself questions like 'How can you know that?' and 'How can you find out?'.
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Hedqvist, Eric. "Varats och utvecklingens kedja : en naturhistorisk museiutställning i Göteborg 1923-1968." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-18922.
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This dissertation is a museological study of the coming into being of a natural history museum, its building and its adherent zoological exhibition during the years around the First World War. The main problem of the dissertation is the opposition between the curator´s program 1903 for the exhibit and its realization twenty years later. The theoretical perspective is that in its synchronic aspect science, in accordance with the views of swedish sociologist, Thomas Brante, is divided into three levels interdependent upon one another in varying degrees – theoretical, sociological and psychological level. In the present study, the main issue is the weighing of the relative significance of each of these levels. The exhibit was structured as along a scale, or chain, from lesser to greater animals. In this and in other respects it belonged to the legacy of Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnæus. Interest in maintaining this tradition was powerful in the Swedish society during the years before the First World War. Not until around 1950 was the modern theory of evolution explicitly announced to the visitor of the exhibit, still however without the representation of the forces behind it By an investigation of the milieu to which the museum belonged is shed light upon the scientific and other ideals which are represented in its exhibit. The result of an assess of the significance of the theoretical, the sociological ant the psychological level is that contemporay theory does not stand out as a driving force behind the creation of the exhibit in 1923. Nor does the curator of the exhibition emerge as an innovator. Most dominant is however the sociological level.avhandlingen framlägges för disputation i ämnet museologi
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Marcinkowski, Michal. "Contextualization of Autonomous Spaceflight Operations for deep space planetary encounters." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Medie- och Informationsteknik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-146273.
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This work concerns the research and application of data visualization techniques to depict ongoing activities in mankinds investigation of space as part of a larger open-source visualization- and science-outreach software known as OpenSpace. It involves the construction of a physically accurate virtual environment of our local star group and solar system so as to facilitate development of a robust and generalized solution capable of articulating mission-science to its viewers. The research part is focused on deploying data visualization methods suitable for contextualizing scientific findings towards the general public in a pedagogical manner, with the end goal to provide a fully operational New Horizons visualization on the day of encounter with Pluto for the first public broadcast of OpenSpace across the globe.
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Diagre, Denis. "Le jardin botanique de Bruxelles (1826-1912): miroir d'une jeune nation." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210873.
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CHING-SHENG, TENG, and 滕清生. "Studies on Museum Public Services with National Museum of Natural Science as Example." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/93716968503575115403.
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Abstract Museum, the palace of knowledge and art, is a respectful term. It has been existed for 2,300 years since the “Muse” from B.C.300 to the so-called “Museum Era”. During the long evolution, the quality and the quantity of museums have dramatic changes: from personal collections to public exhibitions, from the elite audience to the general public, from static displays to interactive learning, from inside the museum walls to every corner of the world. All the changes can be summarized in one sentence: The museum has extended its services from a group of sectors in the past years to today’s general public. While people were celebrating the 20th birthday of National Museum of Natural Science on January 1st, 2005, I was examining its achievements of providing services to the public, attempting to find the shortcomings, and to provide solutions as well. From the reviewed literature, I narrowed down to the top four services that are mostly related to the public providing by museums worldwide. Those services are: hardware services, exhibition & education services, collections & research services, and network services. Then I used five criteria for each service to compare with two domestic museums – Palace Museum and Science & Technology Museum, and two foreign museums – Natural History Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art, plus the results from interviewing and questionnaire. I have the following conclusions and comments: 1. Hardware Services a. The improvements of grand entrance, foot traffic routes, parking lot and restaurants require major engineering. The Museum cannot solve the problems alone. It requires further planning and discussions b. The isolated gallery should be improved as soon as possible. 2. Exhibition & Education Services a. Long-term plans are necessary to balance quality and quantity. b. Various learning activities should be held to encourage employees in public sectors to attend. c. Look for an independent location for the library to serve the public. 3. Collections & Research Services a. Manifest “The Naturalist’s Center”. b. Promote “Demonstration Room” to “Live Studio”. c. Update “Collections & Research Room”. 4. Network Services a. Assign dedicated resources. b. Improve the communication channel between the webmaster and all departments. c. Provide cutting-edge research online. d. Create a wide range of books and objects based on the Museum’s special exhibitions and permanent collections. e. Improve network services for non-visitors.
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HAO, WEI-CHEN, and 郝惟辰. "Studies of Service Requirements for Museum MobileApplication：A Study of National Museum of Natural Science." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/497ftx.
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碩士國立雲林科技大學
設計學研究所
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With the popularity of personal smart devices, mobile apps have become an important tool for museum to integrate digital resources and service. However, with limited resources, how to take the audience as the center and provide the services for what they need and bring them a better and more innovative visit experience is an important topic in modern museum. Therefore, this study takes the National Museum of Natural Science as a case, proposes the services of the museum app through literature and cases analysis, and uses the Kano model to investigate the needs of different audiences for museum app. Finally, from the perspective of service design, the customer journey map is used to present the touch points and moments of truth when the audience have requirement in different visit stages. Furthermore, the service blueprint of the mobile application is constructed to present the front-stage service, back-stage actions and support process during the customer journey, providing reference for museum and app developers to build a museum app. Following are the results of this study: 1. For the cases selected in this study, the apps of most foreign museums are distinctive, and they pay more attention to the usability, sociality and attraction of the app. Domestic museum apps, by contrast, pay more attention to the abundance of function and entertainment of the apps. 2. Audience going to a museum with different frequency will have different requirements the audience who go to the Science and Technology Museum frequently has a more significant preference for diversified guiding ways, multimedia and entertainment services. For those who have used the Museum App, pay more attention to the provision of museum information and the assistance of collection narration. For the young audience, the entertainment service is more important. 3. Through the service blueprint of the museum app, it shows the services that meets the needs of the audience and enhances the visit experience of audience during customer journey.
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Yi-chun, Liu, and 劉憶諄. "The research of the collecting in the natural history museum : an example of the National Museum of Natural Science." Thesis, 2000. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45549714899625212131.
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碩士臺南藝術學院
博物館學研究所
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In view of the emphasis on the audience, and the strength of the exhibition, a new interpretation of the museum's collecting appears. AAM (American Association of Museums) has reviewed the definition of "museum" and agree that museums without collections such as science centers, botanical gardens, and historic sites are included. Besides, affected by the postmodernism, there are many criticisms about museums. One of these criticisms is that museums are considered as a place that people practice their power in society, and an area that people perform their control to the world. In this perception, collecting is the first work to achieve this aim. In natural history museum, curators choose specimens and artifacts, classify, identify, name, and administrate those specimens and artifacts under collection policy. In other word, museums collect objects systematically. This research is studied on the natural history museum by the method of ethnological fieldwork. Choosing the National Museum of Natural Science (NMNS) as my case study. I participated in the NMNS with playing the role of a part-time assistant of a temporary exhibit plan, and observed, interviewed staffs in the NMNS to realize the work of the natural history museum, and the interaction with their society. After my fieldwork, I found that although the natural history museum contracts all aspects of its collection policy, engages professional curators, and provides sufficient facilities and environment to promote their collecting, it still can not implement completely their scheme. These difference between the plan and the reality is not only affected by the individual's operation, but also by the culture. If it is put on the analysis of collecting by Baudrillard, I can furthermore realize that the desire of people control to the world can not practice completely. The reason of failing to achieve people's desire can be explained through three aspects. They are governing body, the actual management structure in the museum, and the actual operators in the museum. Their relation is not single, or absolutely from the upper to the lower strata. In the NMNS, the most important factor of practicing its collecting is that acknowledge on profession of museums in the society. This kind of acknowledge is created by the cultivation of the society, and affected from the uppermost stratum of the political power to the director of the museum, and to the basic staff of collecting departments. Extremely, sometimes this influence is from other departments in the museum. In a word, there is no best model of museums collecting operation, because the museum's collecting work is related deeply with the culture of the society where the museum exists.
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Yu, Huan-Ting, and 余歡庭. "The Economic Value of the National Museum of Natural Science." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48336480334820716784.
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碩士國立臺北藝術大學
博物館研究所碩士班
104
This article investigates the economic value of the National Museum of Natural Science, a heavily attended natural history museum in Taiwan. Using non-market valuation techniques, combining travel cost method (TCM) and contingent valuation method (CVM) to evaluate the use value and non-use value of a non-profit educational association, a prognostic model of willingness to pay for the museum is constructed by the data obtained from 392 valid questionnaires collected from November, 2015 to February, 2016. Besides demographic variables, the museum experience audiences engage in and how it affects the economic value of a natural history museum are concerned. Analysis of the results showed the factors determining visitors’ willingness to pay and the quantity of demand. The consumer surplus calculated by TCM is 1,244 NTD per person per year while the aggregated use value goes to 3.95 billion. The willingness to pay constructed through CVM is about 188.20 NTD for the ticket, and 374.85 NTD for sponsorship per year, and the amount of economic value from tickets is about 0.59 billion. The findings derived from these two methods both confirm the importance of museum experience, especially the personal context in Interactive Experience Model. Understanding audiences better through the demand curve and offering irreplaceable experience accordingly could make a museum more valuable.
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Chang, Kang-Ling, and 張綱玲. "Museum Audience’s Leisure Lifestyle and Benefits of Leisure - Example of the National Museum of Natural Science." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/34879973557286433150.
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碩士國立臺中教育大學
環境教育研究所
97
This study was aimed to understand the museum audience’s leisure lifestyle and benefits of leisure after the visit, inquired the difference of the benefits of leisure for the audience with diverse backgrounds, and analyze the correlation between the museum audience’s leisure lifestyle and benefits of leisure. The patterns of leisure lifestyle are divided into four construes: “recreationists”,” vacation-travelers”,” sport-relaxationists” and “information-orientationists” whilst the benefits of leisure include five construes: “physiological benefits”, “psychological benefits”, “educational benefits”,” self-realization” and “social benefits”. The data were collected using questionnaire survey by the onsite convenience sampling with 400 delivered questionnaires and 392 retrieved valid ones for the audiences visiting the National Museum of Natural Science (NMNS). The valid questionnaires retrieval rate was 98%. The findings concluded were: The pattern of leisure lifestyle of the audience visiting the NMNS was mainly the “information-orientationists”. As for the perception after the visit, the “educational benefits” were the highest, the “psychological benefits” were the next and the “physiological benefits” were the lowest. As for the audience’s backgrounds, there was a difference between genders, marriages and children of benefits of leisure. The benefits of women were better than those of men; the benefits of the married ones and those who have children were better than the unmarried one or those with no children. Overall, there was a positive correlation between leisure lifestyle and benefits of leisure, especially there was an intermediate positive correlation between the “information-orientationists” in the “social benefits”. Based on the findings, some suggestions given in the last chapter would be useful for NMNS managemen and future research.
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Li, Kuo-Yu, and 李國裕. "A Study of the Consumption Behavior of Museum Visitors in the National Museum of Natural Science." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/16104379745476091086.
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碩士逢甲大學
合作經濟學所
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This research introduced the first three stages of The Consumer Decision Process Model (The CDP model), need recognition, search for information, and option evaluation, to analyse the consumption behavior of museum visitors. A total of 201 valid questionnaires for museum visitors have been collected. The questionnaires showed that female is more than male, under age, high education level, average income, the majority of visitors came from the middle area, and the dominant visitors are non-card visitors. The study divided museum visitor consumption behavior into seven categories, the curious demand, the motive demand, the museum information transmission, the static and dynamic exhibition of museum, the gift shop planning, the gift shop environment, and the stability of gift supply from the result of factor analysis. Furthermore, the study classified two kinds of visitors by cluster analysis, self-preferred consumer and unique recollection consumer. The results indicated that (1) the consumption behavior of museum visitors have significant difference among need recognition, search for information, and option evaluation. (2) whether museum visitors have family card or dinosaur card insignificantly affects museum visitor purchase decision process. Therefore, the study suggested that the museum should focus on the connection between membership card and gift shop. (3) self-preferred consumer prefer self-collecting information and have pre-purchase evaluation. Also, they do not rely on museums’service and neglect the stability of gift supply. The unique recollection consumer desires the gift with distinction and memory. They depend on the static and dynamic exhibition of museum and pay attention to the stability of gift supply.
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Wang, Wen-Chi, and 王文錤. "The Spatial Logic of Museums–Case Studies on The National Museum of Natural Science and The National Science and Technology Museum." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77800409719912384061.
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碩士逢甲大學
建築與都市計畫所
92
Abstract: As museums get more and more popular, the subject matter of "spatial arrangement of museums and visitor behavior" has a special and pragmatic significance. The difficulty of keeping a balance between the creative and expressive design of the architectural form and the internal functionality and operational convenience has always been on the minds of architects and their design associates. Needless to say it also has been a serious and much studied subject for centuries. The museum is a special type of architecture in its own right. It has a special educational function and unique spatial requirements that come with it. Therefore, it is necessary to clarify the generic function of the spatial logic of this particular type of architecture, which has become an important mechanism to prevent visitors from losing their way or from being confused about his or her next step or destination, since the knowledge transmitting function of the very museum may be compromised. We focus our study on museums built in recent times. We rely heavily on the methodology of Space Syntax Analysis, developed by Bill Hillier, for our investigation and analysis in trying to understand the inherent organizing logic of the modern museum's spatial and structural configuration. We also used the software associated with this methodology extensively for a quantitative analysis. We intend to uncover characteristics of the deep structure embedded in the surface layout of a museum. We coupled this analysis with our field study on visitor behavior in order to verify the rationality of the architectural spatial configuration of a museum. We would like to offer our findings to people working in the field of designing museums. Our preliminary findings have shown that the spatial configuration of a museum influences visitor behavior in a fundamental way. Take the visitors’ movement patterns in the selected museum for detailed study as an example, after the structure-configuration analysis, we find that if the primary entrance axis, vertical axis of lifts or stairs, and connecting passages between exhibition halls were not well thought out beforehand, it would hinder visitors’ usage of the museum dramatically. This has been supported by our field study on visitor behavior patterns. We also find out that the high complexity of the spatial configuration of a museum often causes many visitors to have a feeling of being lost inside it. Particularly on the mid-upper floors visitors easily get lost if the junctions of axis exhibit more than six interconnections across the assembling venue nearby the lobby of the main corridor or major vertical axis of lifts or stairs. Based on this finding, the future design of museum should keep the number of junctions of the primary and secondary axis under six. Otherwise a visitor will have a hard time to decide in which direction to go and may even get lost. In order to provide the visitors with a well connected and intelligible spatial system of a museum, it would be necessary to minimize the number of the junctions of axis across the assembling hall venue, as visitors could move around the museum more efficiently and smoothly in a rather natural way.
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Li, Chia-Ming, and 李嘉明. "Studying on the Primary School Students Toward the Outside Services of Natural History Museum--An Example of Chiayi County Natural History Museum of Natural Science Education Center." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7e7fm9.
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碩士南華大學
資訊管理學系
103
This study aimed to study on the primary school students’ attitude, satisfaction and effectiveness toward the outside services of museum. The main objects of this study are primary school students who were involved in the outside services of museum. 650 samples were obtained. Descriptive statistics, independent sample T-test, One-way ANOVA, Pearson Product-Moment Correlation, and Simple Linear Regression are used for data analysis. The research results were described as follows： 1.There was a significant impact of some statistical population variables on attitude,satisfaction and effectiveness of the outside services of museum.“Grade”, “school districts” and “we are interested in the natural sciences ” in the attitude show a significant difference. “Grade”, “school districts”, “we are interested in the natural sciences” and “did/did not participate in the outside services of museum” in the satisfaction show a significant difference. “School districts”, “we are interested in the natural sciences” and “did/did not participate in the outside services of museum” in the effectiveness of the outside services of museum show a significant difference. 2. Attitude and satisfaction of the outside services of museum revealed positively correlated, attitude and the effectiveness of the outside services of museum revealed positively correlated, satisfaction and the effectiveness of the outside services of museum revealed positively correlated.
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Wang, Jen-Wei, and 王仁偉. "An Explorative Study on Marketing Practices of National Museum of Natural Science." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/hv28s2.
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碩士國立中興大學
行銷學系所
101
Abstract The development of national museums in Taiwan commenced in 1977 when the 12 Major Cultural Construction Projects was introduced. In the early stage, the function of museums was only for antique collection or particular exhibition; its opening to public was rare. Nowadays, however, museums’ exhibition space has changed a lot. In addition to the traditional functions of collection, exhibition and study, museum-operation has developed some new strategies or orientations to attract customers, for example, create an experiencing atmosphere in the space to enhance customers’ sensational stimulation. Introducing marketing strategies, museum-operation should transform the concept and process of corporate profit-making into pursuing the values of museums’ mission and promotion and take this transformation as foundation of museum-operation. Therefore, marketing concept execution in museum-operation becomes a new challenging task. The research primarily involved two stages: the first stage was the approach of literatures review, which included three steps: determined the aspect of digital marketing, the aspect of brand development, and the aspect of experience marketing.The second stage was the approach of interview survey, which was a semi-structured interview taking advantages of the first stage’s design to develop three continuation propositions. The research results indicated that in the aspect of “digital marketing”, an outstanding museum would only focus on the usability of digital marketing, not on neither the size of hardware nor the value of software. The boundless Internet could lead virtual constructed museums to become a part of life, which this finding was called the developing proposition one. In the aspect of “brand development”, in accordance with the research result of digital marketing, “brand development aspect” continued to be discussed; thus, what focal issue in a museums’ brand development was “sensibility” not just a “static heading”. A museum who planed to transform its brand into a valued asset should go through a procedure of brand asset activation, by doing so, the brand value of museums might be appeared, and consequently, the brand’s ability to story-telling might be expanded, which this finding was called the developing proposition two. In the aspect of “experience marketing”, according to the research results of digital marketing and brand development, “experience marketing aspect” was discussed continuously. In the era of experience economy, sensibilities or feelings are key emphasis. Experience marketing stresses customized service which offers an experiencing opportunity to customer; customer may obtain an unforgettable memory or a unique memory in mind through this self-experience, which the finding was called the developing proposition three.
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Chu, Tsai-Sheng, and 褚再勝. "Investigating College Students’ Service Learning at the National Museum of Natural Science." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/91512524411576186830.
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碩士臺中師範學院
自然科學教育學系
90
This study investigated 1) the general condition of service learning, 2) motivation, 3) gains, and 4) problems from two groups of college students about their service learning at the National Museum of National Science (NMNS). These target students were from two different colleges and all registered in pre-service teacher programs. The researching methods used for data collection included observations, diaries, formal and informal interviews, questionnaires, and copies of document. The results showed that 1) both groups were conditioned by the goals and duties provided by the NMNS. 2) Two groups had different focus of motivations because of their goals of working. 3) Both groups agreed they had understood the nature of visitors than before, and used the effective ways to express the content knowledge to them. 4) However, they still confessed how to represent scientific knowledge was the major problem. Based on the findings, this study made suggestions to the designers of service learning and the future studies needed to do were also proposed.
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Chen, Hui-Min, and 陳慧敏. "A Study on the Operation fund of National Museum of Natural Science." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28481537334857663097.
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碩士逢甲大學
公共政策所
99
A Study on the Operation Fund of National Museum of Natural Science Graduate Student: Hui-Min Chen Advisor: Yahn-Bin Maa, Ph.D Feng Chia University Graduate Institute of Public Policy Thesis Abstract The National Museum of Natural Science is a national museum subordinate to the National Social Education Institution Operation Fund; it is believed that the operation fund system should allow for the appropriate distribution and flexible application of government resources, as well as increase the self fundraising ability in order to alleviate the government’s financial burden. The museum is no longer just an educational public welfare undertaking, it must transform itself to find its own positioning; how to achieve the social welfare mission of the museum, as well as its sustainable survival and development, and at the same time broaden the source of income while reducing expenses to allow for more flexibility and autonomous utilization of funding, has become the difficult challenge faced by the management of contemporary national museums. How to optimize the usage of museums resources to create opportunities without infringing upon the definition of a museum and its purpose? How to provide the public with more diverse and novel services? How can the museum be managed to ensure optimal usage of the operation funds? Different aspects such as these will determine the direction national museums should move in the future. Through the case study, the paper has examined the various difficulties and financial conditions faced by the National Museum of Natural Science after the implementation of the operation fund system since 2007, whether it has suitably demonstrated the desired performance in materializing the purpose of establishing the Social Education Institution Operation Fund. Furthermore, it is also paving the way for corporatization, which makes this study a valuable reference for the government when implementing policies. 【Keywords】National Social Education Institution Operation Fund, National Museum of Natural Science, corporatization, museum management
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Dung, Chin-Yi, and 董靜宜. "Adult Visitors' Learning Experience in Museum Exhibition--A case study of "Chinese Science and Technology" Exhibition in the National Museum of Natural Science." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/53564141476178985171.
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碩士國立暨南國際大學
成人與繼續教育研究所
93
Abstract The purpose of this study aims at exploring more adults’ learning content, experience and influential factors after visiting the “Chinese Science and Technologies” exhibition in the National Museum of Natural Science. In order to attain the purpose of this research, an interview survey will be applied as the major source of data while an observation will be incorporated as supplementary data; i.e., observing the behavior of those who have spent longer time in their visit, and subsequently with their permission, a further survey will be conducted in order to discover the experience of visiting museum and their learning content; finally during the process of interview, it is expected to examine the factors that affect one’s learning and the experience in a museum. After analyzing and classifying transcribed data of interview, records of visiting behaviors and theoretical revision, the findings are as follows: I. Adults are less motivated in learning. The attitude towards receiving information is mainly passive and just simply implies looking. For those interviewees who with this inclination, his/her learning and experience this time with the museum are less sustainable. II. The major factor that causes the individual discrepancy in the museum exhibition between 「the learning content is abundant and deficient」 and 「the tendencies of preferences towards learning content」 are individual previous learning experience. In terms of this research, any previous learning experiences in relation with science-related subjects are considered as advantages in contribution to the visit of this exhibition, in turns, those ones that are from humanity-related backgrounds are considered as disadvantages to impair their visit. III. There is also strong connection between the attitude and ways of solution that one chose to deal with new things, with the experience and learning inside the museum. In this research it shows that those who are willing to spend more time on watching and finding answers about unfamiliar things, are more likely beneficiated from the learning in museum. IV. In terms of these four categories in the learning content of museum – “Able to remember and repeat what has seen in the exhibition”, “Emotionally perceptive from environment and things”, “Beneficiated from applying previous experience of assimilation and assumption over the content of exhibition in contribution to understanding”, and “Capable on bringing out concrete questions”, “the ones referring learning content as abundant” are significantly larger than “the ones referring learning content as deficient”. V. Both “the ones referring learning content as abundant” and “the ones referring learning content as deficient” are quite vigorous on the performances of “capable to raise objective and sensible criticism and suggestion”, which may have its strong and clear connection with the higher self-esteem that adults equip with, i.e., knowing what they want and need; and in addition, how to acquire them. VI. The visiting that those audients who are still in their different life phases varies in accordance with their temporary task. Those parents who are committed with children education also show different format of interaction according to the age of their children at present. VII. The museum experience proves that those activities that can incorporate special designs like hands-on and model in conjunction with parts in the exhibition movement flows can enhance audients’ impression. VIII. Apart from the contact with museum guides that can contribute to the visiting, when the interviewees in this research were asked about opinion on the interaction with others, they all recognize it as impairing the freedom of visiting since they are expected to cooperate with other people, which is considered as disadvantage rather than advantage facilitating the museum experience. IX. The experience of visiting National Museum of Natural Science in the extent of time axis has been more complex particularly for people from Taichung. As there is pre-visiting expectation, during confirmation, and post-visiting organization and inquiries. The question raised will become one of the motivations for next visiting.
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Wang, Yu-Shun, and 王郁欣. "A Study on the Effectiveness of Pupils’ Science Related Attitudes with Science Museum Visiting Activities- A Case of the National Museum of Natural Science in Taiwan." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/43060931494430965898.
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碩士國立嘉義大學
科學教育研究所
93
Abstract The impact of pupils’ science related attitudes by visiting the science museum in Taiwan were examined. Participants were 282 pupils in the fifth and sixth grades of elementary schools. Assessing instruments included the Scientific Attitudes Scale and Attitudes Toward Science Scale. The research methods are conducted with one-group pretest-posttest design of experimental. The main findings of this study were summarized as following: ‧ With respect to scientific attitudes, there were no significant differences in the scientific attitudes with different gender, grades and visiting experiences of pupils. And , the high participation degrees of pupils at science museum, the more positive scientific attitudes. With respect to attitudes toward science, there were no significant differences in the attitudes toward science with different gender, but no or less visiting experiences of pupils than more, higher participation degree in science museum than lower have more positive attitudes toward science. ‧ The degree of scientific attitudes only ‘Causality’ are improved. And the degree of all attitudes toward science are improved. ‧ Participation degree, visiting experiences and grades could effective predict scientific attitudes while visiting the science museum, and explain 12.1% variety. Participation degree could also effective predict attitudes toward science, and explain 4.4% variety.
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Shen, Shuyen, and 沈淑嬿. "The Study on the Tendency of Tourists for National Museum of Natural Science." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/34101301924377962926.
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碩士大葉大學
管理學院碩士在職專班
101
In the past few years, compatriots have been gradually paying more and more attention to leisure life, coupled with the aggressive promotion for pollution-free sightsee industry from the government, coming to an end in an increasing boom of Taiwanese tourism. In the promising future of tourism, national museum as a key part of cultural tourism should own the r i esponsibility for knowledge transfer; moreover regard the function of educating the public as the first priority. This thesis did the trend analysis of visitor number to National Museum of Natural Science from January 1998 to December 2011. ARIMA model was applied to this thesis, and confirmed the model as ARIMA(3,0,2), and MAPE value was 11.30% with good forecasting ability. The result showed that the low season s in May, June and September, and July to August is the relative peak season. The result of this thesis should be able to provide a good reference to corresponding government departments while making tourism policy, and also to bring some contribution to academic research. Key Words: National Museum of Natural Science, Forecast, Time Series, ARIMA
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CHUANG, YA-TING, and 莊雅婷. "The Study of Different Group Benefit of Museum Website Design ： A Case Study of National Museum of Natural Science Website." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ezmn2e.
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碩士國立臺中教育大學
數位內容科技學系碩士在職專班
106
This study explores the dynamic interplay among the National Museum of Natural Science web design principles, the museum user-related benefits, its website’s current conditions, and the visitor demassification strategy employed by the Museum, using Importance-Web Design Principles Questionnaire Survey and the analytical results released by Google Analytics. Research results and suggestions are as follows: (1) We presented acceptance test indicators, using the aforementioned questionnaire survey results. (2) We used the analysis of the website current conditions as a reference, and proffered suggestions about optimizing the museum website’s functions through reconstruction and strategic planning of its activities and activity promotions. (3) The analytical results of demassification and visitor segmentation indicated a rising trend toward demassification in the use of mobile devices, which means a discrepancy of user attention in website’s functions. There exists a major gender-based difference in their views of the site’s web navigation and how they place importance on visualization and information design. The results revealed that female users place higher value on web design, which would be a helpful reference for future web designers.
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Shiu, We-Chi, and 徐薇棋. "Research on the Relationship Between Place Attachment and Loyalty of Natural Museum of Natural Science and National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts of Junior High School Students." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12453362571165685380.
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碩士國立臺中教育大學
科學應用與推廣學系科學教育碩士班
102
The purpous of this study is to understand the relationship between ‘place attachment’ and ‘loyalty’ of Natural Museum of Natural Science and National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts of junior high school students with different background and districts in Taichung city. The study adopted convenience sampling to obtain the questionnaires from 8 classes in different eight schools in Taichung city and the total valid questionnaires was 208.The finding shows that the major factors of background variables which influence the place attachment and loyalty of Natural Museum of Natural Science were: gender, the level of self-conscious knowledge of science and technology, subject preferences, education background of mother, the times of visit the museum in two years and the entourages of first time visit. As for National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts the factors including: the level of self-conscious knowledge of art and arts, education background of mother, the times of visit the museum in two years and the age for first time visit the museum. The significantly difference between these two museums is place dependence, also there are a storng relationship with ‘place attachment’ and ‘loyalty’. The major findings of this study was the influence from parents on place independent more than teachers for junior high school students first to visit the Natural Museum of Natural Science. Finally, this study proposes several suggestions on activities planning for the managers of these two museum.
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I, Lin-Hungi, and 林紅漪. "Investigating The Influence of Exhibition Modes on Visitors at A Museum — A Case Study of The National Museum of Natural Science." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/16227727649611685827.
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碩士大葉大學
設計研究所碩士在職專班
96
In recent years, visiting museums has become one of the daily recreation activities for many people. As a result, museums have developed various exhibition modes to meet the needs of the general public. Also, in order to serve the purpose of recreation and education, visiting behaviors and opinions of the public are important factors that museums put into consideration in deciding their collection and exhibition in the future. This research aims at investigating the influence of exhibition modes on visitors at a museum, and the main purpose is to compare the differences between dynamic exhibition (interaction style) and static exhibition (observation style) in terms of visitors’ spatial experience and learning effects. This research was conducted at the permanent exhibit “the Journey of Human Life” located in the Life Science Hall of the National Museum of Natural Science, and the respondents were visitors to this exhibit. From March 23rd to May 18th of 2008, questionnaires were given to 363 respondents, and 338 valid questionnaires were received. The data obtained from these questionnaires were then analyzed by applying a statistical method to verify the research hypothesis. Based on the analysis of the result, this research has reached the following conclusions: First, concerning spatial experience, visitors were satisfied with the well-designed visiting lines of both dynamic exhibition and static exhibition, but in the acknowledgement degree of congestion, localness and privacy, dynamic exhibition obviously gained more satisfaction than static exhibition. Secondly, in learning effects, the desire for further learning was relatively conspicuous in dynamic exhibition than in the static one, showing that dynamic exhibition was able to attract visitors’ interest and curiosity more, thus generating a desire for further learning.
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孫學瑛. "A Studay of the Interactive Exhibition and Adult Learning in the Science Center of National Natural Science Museum." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/49988270990083470102.
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碩士國立暨南國際大學
成人與繼續教育研究所
90
A study of the Interactive Exhibition and Adult Learning in the Science Center of the National Natural Science Museum Abstract From many theories and practices in psychology, museum education, and science education the researcher had found out that interactive exhibitions in museum had positive influence on adult’s science learning. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to understand whether or not the interactive exhibitions in museum could affect and help the adult visitors in observing science phenomena and understanding science theories. So as to identify that interactive exhibitions in museum could have positive influence on adult’s science learning. Structural questionnaire was adopted in this study. Adult visitors in Science Center in National Natural Science Museum were asked to answer the questionnaire. The exhibitions should possess three conditions as below. 1. Interactive and static exhibitions. 2. Exhibitions, which can clearly convey science phenomena or science theories. 3. Exhibitions, which can attract visitor According to these conditions, the questionnaire was designed to analysis information from adult visitors. Eventually we found out that interactive exhibitions in the museum could help and have great influence on adult visitors. Adult visitors could acquire more different experience by manipulating than by observing statically only. With the help of verbal explanation their recognition could even be more enforceable. Therefore this research suggests that the designers of museum exhibitions should provide interactive exhibits to attract adult visitors and help them to get more knowledge by observing and manipulating. So that the visitors can obtain abound information and personal experience and promote their learning in science as well. This research also suggests that adult educationalists and museum educators pay much attention to adult’s requirement in science learning. They are suggested to provide adults with more opportunities and various ways of science learning. With the help of interactive exhibits provided by the museum is a successful way of learning science. Key word: museum education, interactive exhibition, science learning
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Shieh, Gwo-Jen, and 謝國楨. "Contracting the: Learning Organization of the Volunteer: An Examples of National Museum of Natural Science." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62275019407573344737.
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碩士國立中正大學
成人及繼續教育所
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Abstract The purpose of this study aims to improve training of current volunteer guiding, based on development of volunteer guiding in National Museum of Natural Science, and to promote learning efficiency to reach the goal of volunteer training. This research is in order to conduct the conception of learning organization into practically professional training, and expects to build volunteer organization in “real learning ” culture by changing educational mode. The main study goals are: First, analyzing the situation of volunteer guiding in National Museum of Natural Science. Second, researching feasible strategies and steps on building learning volunteer organization. Thirdly, evaluating the effects of organizational learning applied to volunteer organization. Finally, concluding the research and providing specific suggestion as reference of development of volunteer organizational learning for related unit. An action research study method was employed in this study. To achieve the purpose, the study puts six steps about development learning volunteer organization and fourteen active strategies into practice, according to the research motivation, research goals, reading analysis, personal background study and current situation of volunteer organization culture. According to evaluation strategy and effective efficiency, index of designed efficient evaluation, the study had been processed under the research, interview, and questionnaire. To conclude the results obtained from data analysis, we found: 1.The volunteer training program of NMNS has been well established. 2.NMNS’ volunteer training program face the following problems: a. Volunteers were not confident with participation and learning. b. There was not mutual trust between curators and volunteers. c. The museum did not provide sufficient resource and encouragement for learning. d. There was an apparent discrepancy between the museums visionary and volunteers’ service goals. e. Interpretative materials were inadequate and not well organized. 3.A volunteer training program for a learning organization should include the following: a. A throughout assessment of problems associated with the learning environment and resources. b. Reinforce the idea of life-long learning to motivate volunteer’s learning. c. Establish a culture of learning organization to bring the concept of learning organization to everyday lives. d. Reinforce a service mind-set to build a common volunteer’s vision. e. Reinforce the volunteers’ systematic thinking and mind-set to broaden self-esteem. f. Establish a learning-centered core value. g. Build an environment to facilitate learning within the organization. h. Promote interaction among volunteers to facilitate learning, teamwork, and to build trust and harmony within the organization. i. Setup benchmark-learning program to set as long-term learning objective. j. Develop new learning tools around web technology to facilitate the acquisition of learning resource and systematic learning. k. Establish a knowledge management environment. l. Integrate all possible learning resource within the museum to facilitate learning. m. Establish a well-planned incentive program to encourage volunteers to participate in learning, research and innovation. n. Establish performance indicators to assess learning achievements. 4.Elucidate volunteer’s organizational learning achievements from five dimensions: learning, culture, leadership, structure, and knowledge management. 5.More incentive programs are needed in order to promote volunteer’s participation in learning. 6.The involvement of top supervisor to promote organizational learning is needed but not a must requirement. 7.Other study groups can also develop into learning organization. Based on the results of this study, the suggestions are: Suggestions for future practitioners in learning organization 1.Establish a work-for-learning and learning-for-work mind-set. 2.Theory of adult education and project development will be useful for the building of learning organization framework. 3.Emphasize systematic thinking of organizational members. 4.Establish a core value for volunteer. 5.Establish an organizational culture based on mutual trust, cooperation, and knowledge sharing. 6.Carring out the achievement assessment, building assessment, rewarding, evaluation, three in one system, promotes service quality. Suggestions for NMNS: 1.Clarify and reposition the role of volunteer. 2.Top supervisor should participate these training programs to experience the imperative of learning. 3.Setup standard operation procedure as well as apparent goals for volunteer management. 4.Develop a close partnership between curators and volunteer. Employ volunteer’s experience to assist in training to reduce pressure from learning. 5.Setup an effective incentive program to encourage individual or group to learn. 6.Implement benchmark-learning function. 7.Expand resource for learning and fields of learning. 8.Implement an appraisal system with incentive to improve service quality. Suggestions for future research: 1. Adult learning theory could be integrated in further research. 2. Continue to conduct research in organizational knowledge management and innovation. 3. Both quantitative and qualitative researches are needed. 4. Develop performance indicators for learning organization.
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沈可點. "Studies on the design thinking for two exhibitions of the national museum of natural science." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/50026699912309810410.
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碩士臺南藝術學院
博物館學研究所
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Among all affairs of the museum, exhibition is the most fundamental way that can manifest the function of the museum. Furthermore, design thinking of an exhibition is the key point of promoting an exhibition. The purpose of the research aims at the inner thinking of a designer, it’s problem-resolving process and the key points to influence the design of an exhibition in the museum. To reach the purpose, the research focuses on two exhibitions in National Natural Science Museum, and trace the following problems： （1）What are the characteristics of outer behavior model and inner recognition in designing activities of an exhibition in the museum? （2）What are the characteristics of the exhibiton designers? What are the elements of design thinking of an exhibtion? And what is the dynamic relationship existing in designing process? （3）In designing process, how will designer’s characteristics influence the interaction between the inner thinking and designing practice? And, what does this have to do with the active relationship? The researcher herself not only participated in the prepared works of exhibitions in National Natural Science Museum, but observed closely of them, and she also interviewed a few designers. The data she collected had been arranged, analyzed, studied and inducted. According to the data, we conclude that： （1）The complexity and the degree which management stratum involves in .They make the problem-resolving thinking approach of the design different. （2）Two different designing characteristics ,including the design of an exhibition and the creation of art forms , differentiate “silent designer” from “designer” （3）In the process of an exhibition , we conclude three main designing thinking elements, namely “people”, ”affairs” and “things” The active relationship of the three elements classify two relationship patterns “concept inlay” and “concept harmony”. （4）The designing experience of a planner (or a designer)in addition to the difference of active relationship patterns, make the approaches of problem-resolving strategies and inner thinking different . （5）In an exhibition-designing activity, the cause which we can go on expanding designing possibilities(or controlling the origins of designing development)may not come from the visual phenomenon. On the other hand, it is people’s subjective characteristics to differentiate “designing thinking “from “designing practice”, and sure this is the main cause to make every exhibition different.
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Lin, Yen-Ming, and 林彥銘. "A Study of Effectiveness of nteractive Multimedia Display at the National Museum of Natural Science." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08394075167058227925.
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碩士國立雲林科技大學
視覺傳達設計系碩士班
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The study focuses on the demand of the visitors, is aimed at inquiring the essential factors which influence the effectiveness of interactive multimedia display towards the learning effectiveness. Furthermore, it also investigates into the impacts of the interactive multimedia displays on audience’s behavior and sustainability. The study is conducted into three phases, they are: 1. The study on the current state of the interactive multimedia 2. The study on the audience behaviour and sustainability 3. The evaluation on the effectiveness of the interactive multimedia display The results of the study are as follow: 1. The current applications of interactive multimedia in the national museum of natural science Presently, the contents of the interactive multimedia displays can be classified into five subjects; they are ''questions and answers'', ''games'', ''reading texts'', ''motionless pictures'', and ''motion pictures''. 2. The investigation of audience’s behavior and the sustaining power of the interactive multimedia displays Through the study, based on the highest to the lowest sequence, the sustainability among four subjects of the study can be arranged into games, questions and answers, reading texts, and then picture displays. As for the audience’s behaviour, when parent-and-child audience are paying a visit to an exhibition, the leading role is on the children''s hands and their parents play a role of communication bridge between the display and their children. 3. Essential factors which influence the audience to use the interactive multimedia displays Through the study, it shows that the following factors such as: time, age, ways of displays, intentions of the operation, curiosity, value of information, and learning interests; are the essential factors that influence the audience when using the interactive multimedia displays.
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陳毅強. "Landscpae design of palms garden in the Botanical Garden of National Museum of Natural Science." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28816507255692896975.
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Chen, Chun-hung, and 陳俊宏. "Evaluation of the Visitor’s Service Quality of Interpretive Service in National Museum of Natural Science." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/26509288012704234013.
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碩士朝陽科技大學
休閒事業管理系碩士班
100
This study aimed to explore the National Museum of visitors to the museum a variety of interpretive services before the extent and use of performance level as a standard to assess the quality of interpretation services, As a measure of the importance - performance analysis tools. In this study, questionnaires location for the National Museum of Natural Science, three main exhibition hall in the museum of the scope of the study, and tourists to visit the three exhibition hall for the study, the questionnaires at the museum circle. This study actually paid a total of 400 questionnaires, net of invalid questionnaires, the effective recovery of the questionnaire a total of 373 copies. The study found that the majority of 21-30 years old female tourists visit the museum, the level of education for the University, The majority of students and the average individual monthly income below $ 20,000, and live in Taichung area, and friends to tour times more than the fifth. Explanation of interpretive services provided by the Museum of Natural Science, the most satisfied with explanation and Exhibition Center allow visitors, rather explain the signs, most tourists are dissatisfied. Therefore, the proposed Museum before for explanations signs a proposal and make some improvements. Through site visits, the museum''s audio guide provided by phone low lease rate, recommended that Museum be switched to provide the QR Code to enhance the efficiency of information conveyed. And have switched the old manual equipment damage, recommend the museum to carry out maintenance and management, before increasing the useful life of the tool.
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Chang, Ying-Yen, and 張英彥. "A Study on the Experience and Needs of the Aging Audiences’ Museum Learning Activities：The Case of the National Museum of Natural Science." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3663v4.
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碩士國立臺北藝術大學
博物館研究所碩士班
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The study is on the motivation, experiences and requirements of senior citizens of their museum visit. Through questionnaire and focus interview, the experiences and needs of those senior participants of the Active Aging Learning Centre who joined the workshops held by the National Museum of Natural Science were explored. The results shows that most aging audiences (for those beyond 55 years old) joining these workshops are female, of older ages and with elementary school education or less. These participants do not frequently visit the museum, and most of them come to the museum in the company of their relatives or friends. Factors driving their museum visit are short commuting distance, invitation from friends, special or novel exhibitions, volunteering activities and social activities. Factors making the learning activities pleasant or impressive are learning novel knowledge, involving in fun activities and feeling happy. What makes the learning activities less pleasant are insufficient time and bad activity planning or demonstration. As for benefits the participants acquire from these activities, these can be categorized into four aspects: learning novel knowledge, strengthening religious faith, improving the mood, relieving the fear of aging, and enhancing self-identity. The researcher also finds that activities with the highest satisfactory level are the video viewing of Matsu Pilgrimages and the activities related to Matsu Pilgrimage. Nonetheless, the other activities also have a high satisfactory level, as revealed by their preference rating. The study has found that the aging audience expects the museum to hold more professional learning activities and the content should be interesting and relaxing in convenient location and safe environment. The group-based peer-learning pattern can be held for at least two rounds each day, and the length of the activity should vary depend on the theme of the activity under the principle of each session between 30 and 40 minutes. It is also a good idea to offer audio-visual guide and facilities and charge a certain amount of fees for the activities. From the analysis of quantitative data, the sex, age and educational background do not differ in the evaluation which indicates that the same museum program will apply to all the aging audience well.
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Kao, Chen-ying, and 高蓁瑩. "A study on the operation of museum website interface for different groups─ A case study of the National Museum of Natural Science." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/16276614356399270135.
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碩士國立雲林科技大學
視覺傳達設計系碩士班
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Building museum website has already become essential trend. An increasing number of museums established websites with 3D pictures providing information and services, such as exhibition information, educational materials, book inquiring, etc. To pay attention on how to build a good websites to attract people looking around again and to increase studying efficiency is an important task for museums. This study was adopted the methods of Retrospective Testing, Coaching Method, and "Heuristic Evaluation" in the field of Usability Evaluation. The purpose of this study is to explore the problems on websites usability of an operation interface of the National Museum of Natural Science. On the other hand, content analysis was processed to both domestic and foreign museum websites. These research results could provide objective and specialized suggestions for other museum websites designers. Several focal points are found in this study: A. The usability of the National Museum of Natural Science website interface: (1) Website interface: Website''s structure should be simple and clear. Selected tools design need hint the position of user.
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Chen, Liang Yu, and 陳亮伃. "The Discussion of the Museum Exhibition Extension from the Open View Space: A Case Study of the National Museum of Natural Science." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/65026458189812956572.
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碩士國立臺南藝術大學
博物館學研究所
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With the period of cultural tourism coming, the quality of the contemporary recreation promotes immediately. It no longer pursues the incitement of the sense, and changes to value the cultural content and depth, which consumers interact with to get a great feedback. Therefore, many cultural industries revive not only, but also alight the vitality of evening industries again. The contemporary museum that is one part of cultural industries should not diverge from the current of times. Under the influence of the contemporary museum trend, an open view space plays the rather important role when the museum expands outward. But by analyzing the usage of substantial spaces, we could find that the most points about related researches concentrate still in the behaviors of audiences in the open spaces and the function that assists the museum operation and enhances the entertainment. Relatively, it neglects the function of the museum exhibition. Even though the essence of an exhibition is the basic function of museums, it is shown less in the open view space of the mostly traditional museum. In the meantime, it loses the chance to provide another emotional experience for audiences without the alternative stage. However, in regard to the norm of a museum exhibition outside, the open space functions not only as entertainment or marketing, but also be a part of museum exhibition space. While exceeding the new period of the museum, the usage about exhibitions in the open view space has already become one of the important topics of the museum field solemnly. Adapting to the development of various museums, it presents diverse niches of appearances in the open view spaces. What are the messages among them? Premising to the goals of the development of the museum, what should the museum department do to combine the subjects and to display the ideas in the open view space? These subjects are all main points of this research. It founds data on the results of the case study of the National Museum of Natural Science, and discusses the extension of the museum exhibition according to the messages of the exhibition in open view space.
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卓玉金. "Discussion the Type of Playable Exhibition in Science Museums: A Case Study of "Giant Panda Exhibition " in National Museum of Natural Science and "Children''s Science Center" in National Science & Technology Museum." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67891809763754044890.
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碩士臺南藝術學院
博物館學研究所
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The function of museums besides collections, exhibitions, education and research is that; the modern museum has also gained entertainment functionality too. More and more people are interested in challenges and entertainment types of museums, especially in this time, where everything changes so rapidly and is so busy or difficult to catch up with the latest technology in our daily life. Therefore, in order for museum visitors to enjoy visiting and learning about the meaning of exhibition; museums can be creative in many ways of exhibition and educational actives. Among those exhibitions and educational activities, the most attractive to visitors are recreational exhibitions and interactive activities. This theory was based on the National Museum of Natural Science of “ Giant Panda Exhibition ” and the National Science & Technology Museum of “Children’s Science Center” for my research. On the other hand, I also analyze the personal context and the interactive experience of museum including social context revolution play of the theory and cognitive psychology and point of view of play in social science. Research results discover the National Museum of Natural Science of “ Giant Panda Exhibition ” focus on parallel-functional play and solitary-imaginative play; “Children’s Science Center” has many different kinds of activities but they aren’t developing as expected. From both museums we can usually see the development of the playing exhibition, the functional play of exhibition is developing better then the others in my personal opinion. The construction play of exhibition games with rules of exhibitions, and imaginative plays of exhibition aren’t complicated developing but their operations are usually designed by pressing buttons, turning and opening up. The social interactive usually focus on parallel-functional play and solitary-imaginative play but not so many on group activities. In conclusion, number one：designers should develop more of the creative and challenging types of play exhibitions; they should be suitable for all ages groups so visitors can fully enjoy and play together, and also produce multifunctional products of exhibition. Number two: designing play types of exhibitions should suit for all age of people with young hearts. Number three: planning the play types of exhibitions should also be included the game expert for the instructor and developing more of different levels of play exhibitions in order for all kinds of age groups to enjoy.
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JEN, HSU TSUNG, and 許宗仁. "The study of the impact on learning outcome and attitude of elementary school students in natural science by visiting National Museum of Natural Science (NMNS)." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/17885209853734209127.
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碩士臺中師範學院
自然科學教育學系碩士班
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The study of the impact on learning outcome and attitude of elementary school students in natural science by visiting National Museum of Natural Science (NMNS) Abstract This study was to investigate the impact on learning outcome and attitude of elementary school students who studied natural science by receiving traditional teaching methods in class and by visiting the National Museum of Natural Science (NMNS). The study went further into elementary school students’ opinions about learning the subject of natural science with the help of visiting a science museum. The subjects in this study were fifth graders from three classes of an elementary school in the central area of Taiwan. One of these three classes learned natural science by using traditional methods ; another learned by visiting a science museum; the other studied natural science by employing traditional methods and then visiting a science museum. All the students who participated in the study had to, prior to the trial teaching, take pre-tests on “Achievement in Natural Science” and “Attitude Measurement in Natural Science.” After the trial teaching, the post-tests on “Achievement in Natural Science” and “Attitude Measurement in Natural Science,” and the questionnaire of visiting a science museum as assistance in learning the subject were conducted. Test scores from the pre-tests on “Achievement in Natural Science” and “Attitude Measurement in Natural Science” were common variables, while those from the post-tests on “Achievement in Natural Science” and “Attitude Measurement in Natural Science” were dependent variables. Data was collected to be submitted to one-way analysis of covariance and came up with the following findings. 1. In terms of learning outcome, there was no distinguished difference between test scores of those students who accepted traditional teaching methods and those who accepted the teaching way of visiting a science museum on the test of “Achievement in Natural Science”（ F=.953，p>.05）. 2. In terms of learning attitude, the students who learned natural science by traditional methods and visiting a science museum had no distinguished performance on the test of “Attitude Measurement in Natural Science”（F=2.655，p>.05）. But the low-achievement students who studied natural science by accepting traditional methods and employing the teaching way of visiting a science museum as a supplementary learning showed a remarkable difference on the test of “Attitude Measurement in Natural Science”（F=3.996，p<.05）. 3. Most students held positive attitude about utilizing the teaching way of visiting a science museum as a supplemental way to enhance their learning. They thought that the teaching way of visiting a science museum could stimulate their motivation and improve their learning attitude towards natural science. Keywords: Traditional Teaching, National Museum of Natural Science, Learning Outcome, Learning Attitude
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蕭雯純. "A research in the training evaluation of professional staff in museum digital collection department:a case study of the national museum of natural science." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/97747180053754384949.
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碩士國立政治大學
圖書資訊研究所
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This research is to provide a general understanding of the staff training in a museum, an evaluation of staff training, and the responses of managerial level in the hope that it might be a reference for the museum management in Taiwan. Firstly references related to staff training in the museum are collected and analyzed with the National Museum of Natural Science studied for a deep and practical understanding of the staff-training program. This museum is a member of the digital museum project, and its staff-training program is well established. Then the feedback from the staff of the digital museum project is analyzed to understand the effect of staff training, the influence to the training from different personal backgrounds and varied departments, and the evaluation from managers. The findings of this research include: (1) the emphasis of the training of the staff of digital project is in skill application; (2) the staff of digital project are generally satisfied with the training of hard- and soft-ware equipment, but less satisfied in the evaluation and the promotion and welfare after training; (3) the staff of the digital project have a huge improvement in the knowledge and the whole concept about digitalization, related professional skills, the recognition of targets and goals, and the attitude in cooperation. In the meantime the trainees are also able to apply what they have learned to their work; (4) the staff are dissatisfied with the content of the training program, the irrelevance to their job needs, and the limitation of the number of applicants or training sessions; (5) personal backgrounds and the different departments won’t affect the perception of the staff; (6) managers mostly approve the huge improvement of the staff in the knowledge and the attitudes to work, as well as the great benefit in organization; (7) the staff of digital project consider that the future training should still focus on skills and techniques, while managers consider that it should emphasize in the exchange of experiences with other organizations in the digital project. According to the result of this research, the following suggestions are offered to staff training centers as well as National Museum of Natural Science for the future training sessions for the staff of digital project: (1) Training sessions about information technology should be emphasized and the contents of sessions should be designed with the consideration of staff’s backgrounds; (2) The subject of the session should be updated, and more sessions and applicants should be provided in popular subjects; (3) The agent system should be established, the needs of trainees assured, and opportunities offered for the staff to practice what they have learned; (4) There should be the serious evaluation of staff training, the regulations for rewards and punishment, and proper encouragements to the staff to intensify their learning motives.
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CHEN, YEN-LING, and 陳衍伶. "Visitor Studies of Using Digital Media in Museum Exhibitions: With the SOS Theater at the National Museum of Natural Science as an Example." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/52331498729903782648.
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Yanni, Carla. "Building natural history constructions of nature in British Victorian architecture and architectural theory /." 1994. http://books.google.com/books?id=sDBUAAAAMAAJ.
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Chang, Miao-dar, and 詹妙達. "Research on exploitation of collection in museums- Take the example of National Museum of Natural Science." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/32537776363203406198.
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碩士國立雲林科技大學
文化資產維護系碩士班
92
Abstract “The main responsibility of museums is to collect, research, display and interpret. The academic research on exploitation of collection enables to raise the understanding of human beings to nature and history of evolution. Through exhibition and interpretation, collection represented education meanings can be promoted. Though the collection for each museum has its own features due to the development and targets, and results in the diversity thanks to geographical factors, the purpose and function are the identical. “ The museum origins in collection. As exhibition education means the look of a museum, research represents the heart of a museum and collection objects are the soul of a museum. The reputation of a museum is constructed by the collection. The value of an object counts on how large it can be functioned during the process of reaching a museum’s goal. An object has its own value when it is used by people. In other words, once an object has been devoted to the life of human beings it itself has its own value. The thesis is referred from the aim and the target of establishing National Museum of Natural Science, to the purpose of collection in a museum, ‘to establish a collection policy ’ extending to ‘ the exploitation of collection in museums, and discussing the reason of opening the storeroom in NMNS into the mechanism of management and practice in the storeroom. The opening of a storeroom needs to re-evaluate and measure how to use it. To discuss the appropriation and the problems encountered when objects are stored, researched, and exhibited objects are involved with museums. An object is the territory of a museum even the beginning of all museums’ activities. When the development of a natural history is researched as the link of a society and a nation, rich and valuable collection can be arranged and exhibited in a series of activities designed and tied with objects for science education. Then it will reach its real effect for a museum’s objects and human resources. Therefore, we have to define what ‘exploitation’ means- we have to clarify the purpose- for research? for display? for education? What research means is to offer the truth and to explore knowledge of science; what display is used is to convey knowledge and to interact with knowledge; education is regarded as objects expressing themselves and substantial contact with audiences through educational activities. In brief to synthesize and realize the connotation and the emphasis of the collection work in museums, the aim of a museum is discussed from the exploitation of collection. For the application of science National Museum of Natural Science reaches the effect of ‘my home is your home’ by application of science, display and education on culture and society, and by promoting collection digitally. The collection of museums influences interaction among social culture outside museums to achieve the function of exploitation and application for interpretation on objects. To summarize the search between museums and collection, it needs to be proved scientifically and presented the achievements through objects. The development of collection absolutely is proportional to the space of collection. The exploitation of collection is offered to cause multi-mechanism function on science education and exhibition, and can be used academically and educationally. 【Keyword】：Museum、Collection management、Exploitation of collection、Object、 National Museum of Natural Science
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Szu-Chi, Tseng, and 曾思綺. "The Application of the Theatrical Interpretation in Museums-A Case of the National Museum of Natural Science." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/49020730375347698646.
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