| Summary: | 碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 博物館學研究所碩士班 === 103 === Due to globalization and ever-changing world, ethnic migration has become a current phenomenon in contemporary societies. Museums existing in multi-cultural communities therefore inevitably face the issue of multicultural education. An ethnic cultural museum and cultural center in particular play a crucial role on that in the context of today's pluralistic society.
Taking the Mongolian and Tibetan Culture Center as a case, the aim of the study was to explore the key issues and possibilities of museum-school collaboration through museums’ outreach programs. This study used a qualitative approach and took the exhibition and outreach program of “Dazzling from the alpine grassland ─folk arts from Mongolia and Tibet” as unit of analysis, which were toured to five schools in 2012. The author conducted literature reviews, observation and interviews to collect data and to strengthen the research validity and reliability with triangulation.
The results of this study are as follows:
1. There are significance that the Mongolian and Tibetan Cultural Center curated campus tour and outreach program to achieve museum learning and multicultural education. However, the Center needs to further its programs in three ways for progresses, which are to establish an administrative cooperation mechanism for museum-school services, to plan and to evaluate the programs based on mutual needs between museums and schools, and to make the program a link of school curriculum.
2. There are suggestions for the school outreach programs of Mongolian and Tibetan Cultural Center in the future. First, it is fundamental for the center to confirm ethnic orientation along with local governments’ policies of multicultural education. Secondly, it is more effective if the theme of exhibition is more specific and links to school curriculum and students’ daily lives. Furthermore, the programs should be targeted differently for schools at all levels. Finally, the center after re-organizing could make networking with the Tourism Bureau, cultural communities and other related institutions for promoting culture and education.
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