| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 博物館研究所碩士班 === 103 === The thesis takes National Taiwan Museum, National Museum of Natural
Science, and Shihsanhang Museum of Archaeology, New Taipei City as study
subjects，and use Habermas’s theory of the public sphere and Barrett’s theory of
cultural public sphere as the thesis’s theoretical framework, adopting culturalhistorical
perspectives to explore the evolution of the relationship between
contemporary museums and the public. Also, probing how museums as being
physical cultural public spaces to practice the notion of public sphere in which to
facilitate the public to debate ,communicate and reflect on social issues. Besides,
the research took MA’s “Museums Change Lives” project as reference cases to
provide a new and broader horizon for Taiwan’s museums in expanding its
publicness and to practice the conception of democratic by cooperating with
different communities.
Furthermore, according to the results of the research that leading the thesis’s
central theory from Habermas’s mono- public sphere to multi- public sphere which
means community sphere. And made the research reexamine the relationship
between museums and the public which exposing the complex and contested
politic relationship between different social communities. It is significant and
helpful to realize the importance of respecting cultural diversity because it’s not
only extended the notion of Habermas’s public sphere also established a more
equal, inclusive and democratic mode of public sphere that contributive for
museum to practice the mission of social inclusion.
For the further understanding the notion of community sphere and relationship
between communities and museums that research took eleven Taiwan’s national
museums as case studies to explore whether and how Taiwan’s museum practice
the notion of public sphere.
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