Investigation into sustainable solutions for improving small and medium sized museums in China
type: CreativeWork
description: Museums are important cultural institutions that provide the public with cultural and historical knowledge and play an essential role in preserving and passing on cultural heritage. Museum sustainability contributes to developing nature, society and people, and museum operations. From a macro perspective, sustainability could provide museums with clear development and planning objectives. From a micro perspective, sustainability can provide museums with detailed requirements and specifications regarding the project, its implementation and final presentation. Small and medium-sized museums often have more specific, unique cultural content and presentation characteristics than larger-sized museums. However, the development of small and medium-sized museums is limited in many ways. Most small and medium-sized museums aim to optimise their construction and content with larger-sized museums. However, the lack of social resources, funding and staff often makes it difficult for them to develop better. The rush to benchmark themselves against large museums has also led to homogenisation and pressure on small and medium-sized museums in all aspects, which is often detrimental to their development. Therefore, this study focuses on the characteristics of small and medium-sized museums and develops four sustainability models based on the content of sustainable development to address the dilemmas and challenges faced by small and medium-sized museums in China from four sustainability perspectives: cultural, environmental, social and economic. The models aim to provide museum leaders, practitioners, businesses and curators with a complex strategic model of museum management, exhibition design and experience design in a multidisciplinary context to address the challenges faced in the process of social and environmental change. This study provides a detailed examination and analytical comparison of small and medium-sized museums in China and the UK through an observational approach…
abstract: Museums are important cultural institutions that provide the public with cultural and historical knowledge and play an essential role in preserving and passing on cultural heritage. Museum sustainability contributes to developing nature, society and people, and museum operations. From a macro perspective, sustainability could provide museums with clear development and planning objectives. From a micro perspective, sustainability can provide museums with detailed requirements and specifications regarding the project, its implementation and final presentation. Small and medium-sized museums often have more specific, unique cultural content and presentation characteristics than larger-sized museums. However, the development of small and medium-sized museums is limited in many ways. Most small and medium-sized museums aim to optimise their construction and content with larger-sized museums. However, the lack of social resources, funding and staff often makes it difficult for them to develop better. The rush to benchmark themselves against large museums has also led to homogenisation and pressure on small and medium-sized museums in all aspects, which is often detrimental to their development. Therefore, this study focuses on the characteristics of small and medium-sized museums and develops four sustainability models based on the content of sustainable development to address the dilemmas and challenges faced by small and medium-sized museums in China from four sustainability perspectives: cultural, environmental, social and economic. The models aim to provide museum leaders, practitioners, businesses and curators with a complex strategic model of museum management, exhibition design and experience design in a multidisciplinary context to address the challenges faced in the process of social and environmental change. This study provides a detailed examination and analytical comparison of small and medium-sized museums in China and the UK through an observational approach…
author: Men, Yidan
license: https://dora.dmu.ac.uk/bitstreams/a506a114-fc29-4980-b10f-8a2519a40f89/download
date published: 2023-01
date modified: 2026-07-24T06:18:31Z
provider: De Montfort University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: De Montfort University