Humanity in Science Museums: A Case Study of Special Exhibitions in National Taiwan Science Education Center

• Main Authors: HUANG, Hsiang-Yi, 黃湘頤
• Other Authors: TSAI, Hsing-Chih
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/748wqp

碩士 === 國立臺灣藝術大學 === 藝術管理與文化政策研究所 === 103 === With the development of science and technology, the dependence of human life on scientific research and technology development is becoming deeper and deeper day by day. Meanwhile, people today have more ways to approach scientific knowledge than in the past, while science museum is a comparatively credible source of scientific information apart from formal education. Science museums always deliver scientific contents through exhibitions, it is necessary to integrate the characteristic and spirit of humanity into exhibition if it wants to make audiences grow interests in science, understand the technological environment where they live, even consider the scientific issues and then change their behaviors. However, so far there is still little researches include humanity in the discussion of scientific exhibitions. Through literature review, this study reviews the essence of humanity and concludes its characteristics in scientific exhibitions. In addition, based on the special exhibition “Biological Rhythm” in National Taiwan Science Education Center (NTSEC), the study explores the practices and features of humanity in the exhibition, and then conducts in-depth interview with curating staffs to analyze humanity thoughts implies from their work experiences and opinions they shared. By in-depth exploration and discussion, the study finds that in the self-managed special exhibitions in recent years, NTSEC have conducted multiple practices of humanity through displaying aesthetic design of space, multiple opinions of narration and interdisciplinary combination of objects. All the staffs have the concept of humanity, and most of the audience holds positive appreciation to the exhibition. Thus it can be seen that blending humanity into science has become a tendency of planning exhibitions and it has the potential to develop. If it can practice the humanity more comprehensively and develop the future exhibitions in this direction, it is believed that the science exhibitions will have more impacts on society.