Notions of Culture in Museum Exhibitions: Cases Study of Exhibition Hall of the Austronesian Peoples of Taiwan, NTM and NMP

• Main Authors: Hui-Min Li, 李慧敏
• Other Authors: 王嵩山
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/e9nx46

碩士 === 國立臺北藝術大學 === 博物館研究所碩士班 === 97 === The exhibition development of anthropology museum represents the change of relationship between curators and the exhibited and the retrospect and practice of the museum. Museum as a cultural institution, its structure and meaning are formatted by the social cultural system according the time. In addition, the information control, knowledge interpretation of museum, and rhetoric application are relevant to the cultural backgrounds of the knowledge interpreters and the social cultural tread where the exhibitors exist. This article majorly focuses on: as the cultural symbolizing system, what kind of perspective the museum should adopt while reappear the aboriginal culture. This article processed the discussion from two dimensions, one is the external atmosphere, the development of museum and anthropology was discussed; the other is the examination of professional training of arranging groups, focused on which aspect it concerns in the culture and how to integrate internal and external aspects and reappear them in the exhibition. The analysis approaches are historical anthropology and interpretive anthropology. Through the arrangement and analysis of documentations, arranging group interviews, and comments on exhibitions to identify the notions of culture which appear in the exhibitions and took examples of National Taiwan Museum, National Museum of Prehistory, and Exhibition Hall of the Austronesian People of Taiwan. NTM has inherited the writing style of ethnography before 1980, which emphasizes on the faithful and objective records of traditional aboriginal social and cultural patterns, and provides the audience with basic knowledge of aboriginals. The exhibition pattern resembles in a book or picture dictionary; while the NMP is based on the ethnography during 1990 to 2000, focuses on the position of transition in the main shaft of the exhibition, presents the cultural transition under historical thread, and attempts to interpret the inner logic of culture. These two represent the subject concerns and notions of culture in different period of time. This study provided a thinking pattern for cultural exhibition in museums through the examination of exhibiting notions of culture.