| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 博物館研究所碩士班 === 99 === Human origins and Peking Man’s life are hot and controversial issues in Paleoanthropology. These controversy will influence the content and design of museum exhibitions. The main purpose of this study is to review those diverse schools of thought and to explore how the curators choose the controversial opinions on human evolution and how to explain it.
The cases used for of this study including Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site Museum, Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins at American Museum of Natural History, and Ancient Chinese gallery, Human Story at the National Museum of Natural Science.
The permanent exhibit of Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site Museum is based on fossil evidence to reconstruct the Peking Man as a mighty hunter；AMNH is focused more on molecular biology to support Out of Africa hypothesis, thus, the diorama of Peking Man had become the animal’s prey, not the hunter；the exhibition of NMNS used most of the scholars’s opinions, that the Peking Man porfrayed as hunters and they lived in the caves. In addition, the exhibition of is human evolution is in favor of Out of Africa hypothesis.
This study compared the exhibits of human evolution and reconstructed the life style of Peking Man in different nature history museums around the world. In addition, this study also attempts to understand what the factors affect the exhibition''s contents and designs. Finally, the author suggests that the exhibitions of human evolution in Taiwan should rethink and provide the visitors in more multi-perspective exhibitions in the nearest future.
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