The Reproductional Practice of Citizen Engagement: A Case of Osaka Natural History Museum

• Main Authors: Po-Jung Chen, 陳柏蓉
• Other Authors: 王嵩山
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7wq7r2

碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 博物館研究所碩士班 === 104 === The prototype of museums derived from Europe. Along with the aggression and the expansion of Europe countries, museums become the symbol of civilization and spreads to the world. However, museums in different social and cultural contexts reveal different point of view with artifacts, social relationship and cosmology in the museum practices. Since 1960s, regional museums in Japan provide citizen engagement practice that citizens actively engage with. This study takes the Osaka Natural History Museum as an example due to the citizen engagement practice in Osaka Natural History Museum has lasted over 50 years and has a clear idea of museum education. This study adopts Bourdieu’s concept of habitus, reviews history of museum in Japan and Osaka Natural History Museum, interviewed with curators in Osaka Natural History Museum and participated in educational activities organize by Osaka Natural History Museum and Museum Association to understand and analyze the formation and continuity of the citizen engagement practice of Osaka Natural History Museum. Furthermore, this study tries to explore museum educational concept and practice in non-western context. The result of this study shows that the Natural history profession of curator, the characteristic of Osaka Natural History Museum’s educational activities that emphasized embodied practice and the collective scheme of Osaka Natural History Museum Association make curator and members of Association construct the reproductional practice of citizen engagement. And the educational practice of Osaka Natural History Museum also reflects the notion of nature of Japan and the social education that roots in community.