Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Museum exhibition planning'

The subject of this diploma thesis is to continue on the previous atelier work, which was focused on elaboration of a strategic urban-architectural study of the Kraví hora area and the BUT holding located there. A multifunctional facility, which would include activities that BUT still lacks, should be designed there. In any case, it should not be an extension of the teaching, research or accommodation capacities, since there have been built enough of these by BUT recently. At the same time, the proposed activities should not be controversial with the interests of the city. The BUT area at Kraví hora is one of the most valuable areas of the city of Brno. The city, which has tried to buy it from BUT several times, has an eminent interest in this area. However BUT considers it as its "family silver", because they realize its extraordinary value. Nevertheless, due to the binding regulatory conditions, construction possibilities are very limited. The aim of this study is to find such a use of this area, which would be a compromise corresponding to both the city's expectations and the needs of BUT. The intention of the previous project, which has been continued by this diploma thesis, was the removal of unsatisfactory buildings and the reduction of the garden colonies; despite to a study created by the City of Brno but partially kept, cultivated and reorganized; and rebuilding of the BUT area, which will be opened to the public and communicate with park. The public will obtain an access to nowadays inaccessible and impermeable areas by removing inappropriate buildings and fences, as well as by the modification of the public space and creating one major spine communication realized as an extension of the existing road and which will serve only for the supply, hikers and cyclists. The newly founded BUT complex with its strategic location on the top of Kraví hora hill and next to the observatory will invite large number of people not only from the surroundings but a

Among the founders of the science of town planning at the beginning of the twentieth century, Scotsman Patrick Geddes introduced methods of investigation commensurate with other sciences. A biologist, trained by Thomas Huxley, Geddes borrowed the practices of the microscopical laboratory in creating the Outlook Tower in Edinburgh, Scotland which served as a model for an approach to the study of cities. His method was like that of a field botanist studying a species, and assumed an interdependent relationship between place, work and folk. Embracing the evolutionary theory of Charles Darwin, Geddes proposed subtle town planning interventions as a means by which cities could adaptively respond to change over time. He advocated the employ of a graphic device, which he called his "thinking machines," and which served as a paradigmatic strategy to forge new relationships within sets of ideas. Such an approach aligned him with the taxonomic strategies in practice in the formation of museum collections and display of the nineteenth century. This work examines the archival evidence of the principles underlying Geddes' methods in the hope that they may be recovered in contemporary town planning.<br>Ph. D.

碩士<br>臺南藝術學院<br>博物館學研究所<br>91<br>The exhibition named “General History of Chinese Cultural Artifacts” directed by the National Museum of History is considered as the most important permanent exhibition during the museum’s modernization process. It was planed to fulfill the museum mission, show the characteristics of the museum, reach the education goal, widen the scope of collections, deepen the academic research, and build the available resources of the organizational documentation arsenal. My earlier observation found a discrepancy between the multiple missions the museum authority put on the exhibition and the visitor feedback. The aim of the thesis is to try to find out where the discrepancy come from and, furthermore, to give a logical and detailed analysis and explanation why there’s the discrepancy The discrepancy was confirmed by the analyses of the interviews with the visitors and a questionnaire designed by the museum administration (though the museum administration has not yet analyzed the questionnaire). A visitor study focused on visiting motivation, the understanding of the exhibition, and the reaction to the exhibits also contributed to the confirmation of the discrepancy. The analyses of the related documents about the exhibition and the interviews with the members of the working team found that the discrepancy come mainly from the way the members cooperated with each other and the monitoring mechanism of the whole forming process of the exhibition. The research also found that the way the working team members cooperated with each other was the traditional hierarchical approach (though they announced that the ‘team approach’ is the way they took.) with inefficient communication and coordination, and that the working steps did not follow the necessary order. The departmental egoism, the emphasis on interpersonal congeniality but not on the execution of the exhibition plan, and the attitude of the museum administration all contributed to the existence of the discrepancy between the goals of the exhibition and the visitor experience. Thus, the suggestions given in this thesis would be as follows: 1. Improve the way team members cooperate with each other. The training of new way of cooperation is necessary. 2. Build the standard operation process for plan execution. 3. Do take into account the result of visitor study when making exhibition plan. The action plan reacting to the visitor study must be made if the museum really wants to have the expected effect on visitors.

碩士<br>中原大學<br>室內設計研究所<br>102<br>Exhibition is an art and culture behavior and the bridge between exhibition spaces and visitors. It provides an environment for visitors to understand and appreciate items. Exhibition planning is an important part of exhibition design, one of the creative methods from theme planning and storyline development, to space design. The school history exhibition is a type of “quasi-museum” exhibition method. Research on this issue remains scarce, and exhibition planning and design related information is relatively inadequate. Hence, the research motivation is to explore exhibition planning through Chung Yuan Christian University’s (CYCU) school history exhibition space planning. The purposes of the study are: 1. Compile CYCU’s school founding history and collect related files, photos, and artifacts; 2. Propose exhibition related creative stories as the basis for describing CYCU’s history and presenting its vision; 3. Put forth the content of CYCU’s university archive exhibition planning; 4. Complete the university archive exhibition design creation based on the content of the exhibition planning. The study first reviewed literature on exhibition design, museum exhibitions, memorial space, and university history exhibition space. Then, through field surveys and network information, the school history space case studies were carried out in order to gain an insight into the design of exhibition spaces in different schools and analyze the spatial composition and exhibition elements, thereby completing CYCU’s university archive space creation design. Findings show that: 1. General schools have not set up a unified window for long-term collection of school history files, photos, or artifacts, thus easily resulting in loss or damage of files and increased difficulty in collection and classification of data and artifacts. Schools should therefore consider setting up a responsible unit and personnel for managing files; 2. When engaging in exhibition planning, owners should designate personnel to provide exhibition unit data to design personnel, such as a calendar of events related information, pictures of people and display of physical artifacts; 3. Due to the lack of a response unit, the university archive failed to periodically collect campus artifacts and data. In the future, special personnel and units (such as the archive office/department/university archive/department) for annual data collection and archiving, such as audiovisual files of important events where the president or board chairman delivers a speech, school development drawings, building construction drawings and photos, student manuals, club apparel and equipment, student notebooks, university publications, etc. ; 4. When school history space distribution is not continuous, the connecting space in the middle should be handled with care. Plane and integral spaces with complete floors or buildings should be chosen to fully grasp the exhibition space atmosphere and moving route, thus avoiding incoherence in the exhibition themes.

碩士<br>國立高雄大學<br>都市發展與建築研究所<br>97<br>Basic function of museum including collection, conservation, research and exhibition, besides, there are functions of educating and amusement. Ministry of National Defense R.O.C. impose that every Combined Arms Brigade must set up the relative facilities and spaces to preserve the precious historical relic and memory history, to reflect the meritorious service and to enhance the troop morale as well as the public education. However it is difficult to manage and to maintain these facilities due to financial problems and the lack of professional managers. It is thus necessary to well organize these facilities and spaces to provide and to enhance the image of R.O.C. Army and the quality of life for communities. This research focuses on the subject of the Air Force Museum R.O.C. of Air Force Academy. By using the methods such as participating observation and questionnaire investigation, the study assess and analyze the suggestions form the visitors before visiting and after visiting. Moreover, this study combines the different planning theories and exhibition concepts to develop the museum by using the existing the infrastructure and military resources. It is expected to be suitable for request of military planning direction. The contribution of the study is not only to improve the present operational efficiency, but also to promote a harmonious relationship of and the community and public, the museum can also become the best place for the nearby residents and all public.

碩士<br>輔仁大學<br>博物館學研究所碩士班<br>100<br>In Taiwan, based on the needs of the preservation of military dependents village (MDV) culture, gave birth to some MDV story house, MDV museum, and MDV cultural park. To recall the life in MDV is also a favorite theme for some drama and literature. However, the current methods about MDV interpretation of exhibition are not only difficult to let non-MDV audience to understand the essence of MDV culture but also difficult to create the pipeline for the deep dialogue between MDV and non-MDV communities. This thesis is to discuss the exhibition practices of Kaohsiung Museum of MDV and how to restore the essence of MDV, to achieve the interpretation task of MDV museum should shoulder, and let MDV museum to show the deeper significance in social, culture, and history. This thesis is also to reference to the theories in the fields of museum development, eco-museum, immigration museum, the interpretation of exhibition in museum, and the preservation of MDV, to explore the issues how to interpret the exhibition in MDV museum. In the actual investigation in the case of this thesis, the first step is to introduce the development history of MDV in Zuoying District of Kaohsiung City, followed by the planning in Kaohsiung Museum of MDV, and then the exhibition and operating in Kaohsiung Museum of MDV. As for the further analysis of the interpretation of exhibition of MDV culture (in MDV museum) is about how to piece the personal memories together into the collective memory in history, and then analyze the connotation of exhibition, shows, performances and activities in Kaohsiung Museum of MDV, and the situation of the old houses in MDV retained area, to view what concept Kaohsiung Museum of MDV uses to interpret MDV culture. According to the observation and comparing the theories and concepts, this research is to organize the planning, operating, and interpretation of exhibition in Kaohsiung Museum of MDV, and to propose recommendations about the follow-up works.

碩士<br>國立臺灣師範大學<br>美術學系<br>93<br>Analyze the international Exhibition, jointly Held by National Museum of History and the Media, from the Strategic Marketing Planning Viewpoints--Using the Example of Matisse Exhibition Abstract Given that there are more and more exhibition that are jointly presented by museum and media and the potential crisis of these kind of exhibition being too commercialized pointed out by scholars in the museum fields, this study wish to explore on the background of international exhibitions held together by the museum and medias. The study attempts to explore the factors constituting the background of international exhibitions held together by the museum and medias. The planning module of these types of international exhibition and motives, recognition and cooperative method between the museum and the medias are studied from the strategic marketing planning viewpoints to understand the related connection of the mission and positioning between the international exhibitions and museums and requirments and principles of the planning procedures.

碩士<br>國立臺灣師範大學<br>圖文傳播學系<br>98<br>In recent years, the government promotes the Digital Archives Program of cultural assets strongly. In addition to cultural institutions such as museums or art galleries are setting up websites, also led to the private museums, studios, arts and cultural groups as well as art creators have joined the government plan. As the Art Gallery and Museum, the value is that it contains a wealth of human wisdom, science development and social and cultural assets are different from formal educational institutions. The current skills upgrading of digital archives, web site popularity and cultural content so that these can be constructed by museum Web site can build and more flexible preservation, interpretation, management and value-added extension In addition, the paper is to study Professor Chen Jing-jung Institute of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University professor emeritus of art results have been outstanding, dedicated to education and arts to heritage duty, in the arts occupy an important position. His professional talents, efforts to promote the footsteps of the enthusiasm and contributions to Arts and Humanities, everyone deserves respect and recognition. Purpose of this study is to preserve, extending Professor Chen Jing-jung’s creations, use of the variety and rich content, through the Subject-based concept planning integrated network exhibition content. Research assessment by expert interviews the feasibility of Subject-based Network Planning Exhibition（SBE）processes, and finally propose the use of developing the contents by the SBE concept planning, try to combine the arts of diverse cross-industry theme of industrial development and to explore the themes between it may have relevance. Results in addition to characteristics developed by Chen Jing-jung creations show Internet content as an example, the following five collections for the use of existing content for online exhibition of planning proposals provide researchers. (1) Museum planning exhibition process change within difference of exhibition mode. (2) Network planning exhibition focuses on goal setting、digital content and web design. (3) The development of Subject based on the content and special characteristics of artist creations. (4) Combining cross-industry based on the properties of artist creations. (5) Connecting different subjects based on similarity of the artist creations.

碩士<br>國立高雄師範大學<br>跨領域藝術研究所<br>102<br>This curation program is intended to explore how the Children’s Museum of Art in Kaohsiung curates and implements exhibitions for children by focusing on its curation and implementation of the exhibition, Little Mona Lisa. Traditionally, the four major functions of an art museum are collection, research, exhibition and education. Among them, exhibition is mostly targeted to viewers and also an important part of a museum’s core values. In particular, for the Children’s Museum of Art, a learning space established with education as one of its core concepts, exhibitions are the most direct channel of communications between it and its viewers. However, how to curate exhibitions especially for children? How to curate exhibitions with the major goal of education? How can the exhibition curation help to promote meaningful and proactive learning among adult and children viewers? How can the art museums for children in Taiwan learn from each other and their counterparts in other countries to develop exhibition curation methods suitable for their own viewers in order to create pleasant viewer experiences and to fulfill the goal of art education? In an attempt to answer the above-mentioned questions, this curation program explores the Children’s Museum of Art as an example to draw references from how the Museum interprets its core concepts and implements its art education and learning for children through its exhibition curation, exhibition guide deployment, and workshop training. In addition, by studying actual cases of exhibition curation and implementation from the perspective of curators, this curation program attempts to promote dialogues and discussions about how to strike a balance between young viewers’ interests and adult viewers’ interests and how to combine education and entertainment for a children’s art museum. It is found through the implementation of this curation program that, as family viewers become the major visitor population of the Children’s Museum of Art, it is essential to incorporate the consideration in exhibition curation that the exhibitions must be suitable for both parents and children so that both parents and children can learn and enjoy themselves in the exhibitions. In addition, there must be a balance between statistic display and viewer-exhibit interactions in the exhibition design while durable exhibits are preferable to prevent wear-off. Last but not least, exhibition guides must be carefully selected, trained and equipped with full knowledge about the exhibition curation concepts so that they can help viewers know more about the exhibitions. To conclude, by demonstrating and analyzing how an art museum for children in Taiwan curates its exhibitions for both parents and children to fulfill its goal of art education, life-long learning, this curation program offers suggestions for the references of those museum workers who are interested in curating exhibitions in the future. Keywords: museums for children; museum exhibitions; children education

碩士<br>國立臺北藝術大學<br>藝術行政與管理研究所碩士班<br>95<br>Confronting with the globalization, the concepts concerning about internationalization, de-localization, and de-center are constantly progressing. Is the rising of “Asian Value” about to lead or even influence the development of the entire contemporary arts while the Western ones have been dominating? With this impact, not merely all Asian countries but Euro-American countries playing as a leading role of contemporary arts have seen these concepts as the new sign of 21st-century global culture trend. The development of contemporary arts starts from the change of World War II. This change spread from New York to each capital all over the world, having a bigger impact on Japan than other Asian countries. After World War II, as the defeated nation, while Japan is with full heart to regain her own global position through the interaction of international culture, she looks forward to becoming a new born nation by means of the self-reflection of ever being a “military nation.” The government of Japan practices, afterward, her culture policy down to earth, with the large-scaled growth and development of Asian economy and culture; The development of contemporary arts and museums has been making Japan play the leading role on the field of international culture communication. “Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale” since 1999, Fukuoka city hall and Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, being a host in this exhibition, take Fukuoka as a base and attempt to connect with Asian contemporary arts community by means of her own geographical location and historical meanings. It is obviously that such an ambition has been transforming both “Fukuoka Art Museum” and “Asian Art Show” into “Fukuoka Asian Art Museum” and “Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale.” Nonetheless, Japan, regarded as the prosperous and economic country, recognizes that the development of its contemporary arts as a perspective toward the Asian contemporary arts is necessary. Therefore, being the unique Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale focusing on Asian contemporary arts around the world as well as the host, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, no matter in the area of exhibition subject, collection content, and historical documentary, is without doubt one of the sound activities surveying Asian contemporary arts and art museum. Of course, to inspect the development of Asian contemporary arts how to present in “Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale” hosted by Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, speaking on the studying method, “art museums’ exhibition planning mechanism” is necessary.

碩士<br>國立雲林科技大學<br>視覺傳達設計系碩士班<br>95<br>ABSTRACT Museums are informal educational organizations which are nonprofit organizations. Museums provide visitors to learn knowledge through the exhibitions. The exhibitions of museums begin from exhibitions planning and the planning concepts also affect exhibition design process. This research was based on the special exhibitions of scientific museums to explore the exhibition planning and design process by “expert’s interview”, “case study”, ”participant observation” and ”visitor’s interview” methods. Firstly, expert’s interview method focused on the curators and relevant curatorial staffs of the special exhibitions of scientific museum; then collected the relevant curatorial data through the case study method. Finally participant observation method was applied to investigate the operative situation and phenomenon of exhibitions planning in the reality in order to understand the whole exhibition design process and the thoughts of curators. The results of this research could improve exhibition planning and design process. The major findings are as following: 1.The motivation of a special exhibition was the key to planning The topic of an exhibition, content, budget, the exhibition space, interpretation and constitution of the team member were all involved during the planning stage and which were all related and linked mutually to each other. 2.The curators were the core of the curatorial planning: Exhibition planner should familiar with the content of the exhibition topic, capable to develop the exhibition plan, the willingness of communication with other people and the creativity of special exhibitions planning. Afterwards, he could undertake the responsibility as a leader to meet the exhibition goals. 3.The appropriate correction could reduce the gap between pre-planning stage and after planning stage. High developing exhibit devises were needed to test and correct to meet the exhibition goals and the missions of museums. Through the appropriate correction could reduce the gap between pre-planning stage and after planning stage. 4.Exhibition design process was deeply influenced by administrative operation of museums. Administrative organization and operation process of museums influenced obviously during exhibition planning and design process. 5.To establish an exhibition design process mode: The result indicated that there wasn’t any exhibition design process mode which was applicable to all of the special exhibitions; however which could limit exhibition design process to the same administrative operation, the same type of special exhibitions or the same curators to develop a mode.

碩士<br>國立臺南藝術大學<br>博物館學與古物維護研究所<br>100<br>Since the 1990s, the trend of blockbuster exhibitions have emerged in some Taiwan’s museums and these phenomena still exist until nowadays. The main reason blockbuster exhibitions can attract the audience includes that the themes are attractive, and the styles are diverse. Nevertheless, qualities and educative functions of these special exhibitions are usually questioned by the public because time of these exhibitions is usually short. What’s more, theses special exhibitions are often controlled by some cooperative media. Therefore, the museum educators need to play important roles, which provide knowledge and entertainment during educational programs in blockbuster exhibitions. And visitor studies provide the best tool to evaluate effects of these programs. The case study chooses the educational program “Welcome to Silk Paradise,” which was held by Naturalist Center in the National Museum of Natural Science, and this educational program was for the exhibition “Traveling The Silk Road” in 2011. After studying some relevant references and making proposals, the researcher used multi-methods, including participant observations, In-depth interviews and questionnaire surveys to collect data. By those methods, the researcher could understand how educators acquire elements in this exhibition, refer to the programming model, and combine resources. After that, the researcher could develop an ideal educational program. This research arranged the behavior and opinions of the participants, and validates the goals of the educator. The researcher participated the whole process of this program, including planning, executing and evaluating. Therefore, this study could survey every aspect in this educational program deeply. We also found out the educator chose the element “silk” as the main element in this exhibition, and developed the educational program which let participants learn the knowledge about the animals which provide rayon. In the planning process, the educator used GLOs to inspect every detail. This educational program also combined the center’s specimen, so this program can develop into packages or group lessons after the special exhibition finished. The educator even arranged dramas: let these participants imitate these animals and enhance their learning experiences. The result of Summative evaluation can help the researcher understand the relevant background of the participants; validate the goals by the participants’ responses. According to the results, the following conclusions can be proposed: 1.How to plan educational programs of special exhibitions When planning an educational program, educators should lead the process instead of repressed by cooperative units. Educators should combine features of special exhibitions and museums, let educational programs can still execute even special exhibitions are over. Planners should also consult the experts who are adept in these fields to make sure educational programs convey correct knowledge. Educational programs can also add some creative designs to accelerate the participants’ learning motivations. 2.Use GLOs while planning educational programs of special exhibitions This case use GLOs to make the educators survey different aspects more professional. The research suggests museum educational programs can usually refer this mode to develop. 3.How to execute educational programs’ evaluations of special exhibitions According to this case, the researcher thinks evaluations can assist museum to know the effects of educational programs. Nevertheless, we need to decide goals, methods and performers of evaluations in the beginning. Themes of evaluations include the backgrounds, satisfactions, learning outcomes, and opinions which are relevant to special exhibitions and educational programs. Finally, the researcher suggests that museums should make well-organized projects for educational programs and evaluations of special exhibitions, which include short-period, mid-period and long-period projects. And this policy should enhance educators’ professional domains in program planning and evaluating.