Museums, Heritage, and People: Education of Interpretation, Exhibition, and Conservation in the Context of Diversity, Fluidity, and Ecology
Speaker: Dr. Lin Bu
Visiting Professor | Shaanxi Normal University, China
Abstract:
Conserving heritage is a shared mission of humanity, museums, and heritage sites, public education should be an universal initiative for heritage conservation. The inherent characteristics of nature and humans determine that humanity, museums and heritage collectively embody diversity, fluidity and ecological attributes. Through practical cases, this talk illustrates that in the process of interpreting, exhibiting and conserving heritage, it is essential to involve diverse stakeholders, develop educational programs tailored to different groups, and interpret and exhibit humanity and human society in an objective, scientific, authentic, and comprehensive manner with a responsible attitude and actions. Only by doing so can we safeguard and meet the needs of heritage conservation and its sustainable development with humanity, and achieve holistic education at the same time.
About Dr. Lin Bu
I specialized in cultural relics protection technology during my BS from the Northwest University of Xi’an. During my Master of Archaeology at Northwest University, I began training in archaeological excavation, typology study and certification of Chinese ancient porcelain. My PhD research in Northwest University was about the preservation and management of cultural heritage, I investigated most of World Cultural Heritages in China and studied the present state, problems and reasons in the aspects of presentation and interpretation from the perspective of conservation and put forward feasible improvement scheme, then I graduated with archaeology PhD in 2012. I joined the Department of History & Civilization of Shaanxi Normal University in 2003 where I began to teach and do more research on Museology, museum education and public service, public archaeology in China and comparative study between China and abroad. I have been a visiting scholar of a transdisciplinary and transculture program between Shaanxi Normal University and University of Massachusetts, Boston, U.S. from 2012-2013 and given lectures sharing my research about cultural heritage conservation and management in Harvard University, Boston University and University of Arizona.
Photo Credit: Lin Bu
