A Study on the Middle-aged and Elderly Visitors’ Visual Appropriateness in Museum Exhibitions: The Case of the Buddhist Underground Palaces Exhibition at the Fo Guang Shan Buddha Memorial Center

• Main Authors: TSENG, CHIAO-WEN, 曾巧文
• Other Authors: 耿鳳英
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/scp4u7

碩士 === 國立臺南藝術大學 === 博物館學與古物維護研究所 === 104 === Museums in Taiwan have not only faced the coming of aging society, but also undertaken the social responsibility of cultural equality. Todays, visitors have diverse needs, museums should offer visitors with a more friendly environment. In recent years, the numbers of middle-aged and elderly visitors are gradually increasing in museums. They often have difficulty in seeing, for examples: directions of signs are not clear for them, texts of labels are too small, readability of fonts is not easy, to name but just a few. When the middle-aged and elderly visitors visit the gallery, their visual recognition is not as good as young visitors. So it’s hard for them to get better visual environments in the exhibition. Nowadays, exhibition design is gradually using universal design, and tries to create an accessibile environment to meet the needs of all visitors in the museum. However, it’s hard to find visitor studies based on universial design, and hardly testify the effects of universial design in museum exhibitions, either. This research conducted the survey at the Fo Guang Shan Buddha Memorial Center, use PPP（Product Performance Program）as a evaluation framework to revise and establish evaluation indexs. It also reviews four national and international museums to have an understanding of present situation. In the process of evaluation, the author used evaluation indexs to make a contrast in knowing the exhibition and service of museums at present. The research aims to know the effects of evaluation indexes with museum and vistiors, and appropriateness of evaluation indexes. Evaluation indexes are used to exam the middle-aged and elderly visitors’ visual appropriateness in museum exhibitions, and find the needs of visiting visitors’ sight- sense, with comparison to know the conception of exhibition designers. Also, this research investigated the middle-aged and elderly visitors’ visual perception in the exhibition through comparison with a case to know their visual appropriateness in museum exhibition halls. It is the hope to provide museum professionals with a case of visitor studies in museum exhibition, and also help museums to establish an orientation of visual design for the middle-aged and elderly visitors.