Museum Meets with the Volunteers: A Study on Museum Voluntary Relationship

• Main Authors: Chueh, I Jou, 闕依柔
• Other Authors: Chen, Hsinmu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/x5n22r

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 社會學系 === 104 === Volunteer service in museums has developed in early stage in Taiwan. The volunteers have not only provided museums with sufficient human resources, but also have assisted museums to operate successfully. It is the volunteer that offers the front-line service in museums, and interacts with audience and museums. While museums have the demand of administration and profession, volunteer service have the characteristics of voluntary involvement and assistant works. Therefore, there are several contradictions between the volunteers and museums. In general condition, if the museum is a well-organized bureaucracy, and the volunteers have the strong autonomy, the conflicts between both of them would be much higher. This study takes Rainbow Museum as an example, starting from the motivations and expectations of the volunteers and museums when they join museum volunteer service. Second, it illustrates the differences that contribute to the unstable relationship between the volunteers and museums. Despite of these differences, the volunteer service in museums still exists today. In consequence, this study would like to discuss the features of museum volunteer service, and the ways to maintain this relationship. We find out that association development and formal regulation are two important ways to maintain museum voluntary relationship. While association development meets the expectations of volunteers, formal regulation reaches the demand of museum administration. Both museums and the volunteers would use these two ways intentionally or unintentionally to maintain voluntary relationship. In the end, the study moves on to explain the museum volunteer team, which connects with museums and volunteers. Volunteer team has helped museums to operate successfully, and has also presented fully about the characteristics of association development and formal regulation. From member election of volunteer team to roles of members, it all shows the coordinating operation of association development and formal regulation. In short, association development and formal regulation not only represent different images of museum volunteer service, but also are two important ways to maintain balanced relationship between museums and volunteers.