University Natural History Museums: The Public Education Mission

University‐based natural history museums are specialized cultural institutions that serve diverse constituencies. On one hand, these museums promote scientific research and collections through the work of curators and students and must advance the universities' missions. On the other hand, they must provide exhibition and public programs for the local community, or if they are a state museum, serve the citizens of the entire state through these activities. The challenge for university‐based natural history museums is to achieve a balance among their activities and services, given available resources. In the twenty‐first century, university natural history museums must further adapt by promoting social awareness of topics such as biodiversity and fostering learning in informal and formal settings. The Florida Museum of Natural History, an official State museum located at the University of Florida, is a prime example of a comprehensive university museum with a broad spectrum of programs that promote and enhance learning activities.     

Children's Museums: A Look Back at the Literature

This article examines nine articles from the Curator archive, from 1960–2017, on the topic of children's museums. It concludes that despite enormous changes in these museums over the 60‐year span, there are a number of trends consistent in the literature. The article concludes with a call to museums to invest in research in order to understand the impact of our work, and to help us ensure we are really achieving what we claim to.     

高校校史博物馆信息资源建设的思考

高校校史博物馆凝聚着大学悠久的历史和深厚的文化底蕴,是展示大学整体面貌的生动名片,在高等教育发展史的知识拓展及传播中扮演重要的角色。博物馆是承载人类历史和自然的过程的信息载体,信息资源是博物馆的物质基础。文章以南京大学校史博物馆为例,从其信息资源来源的四个方面,包括文字照片、实物、礼品和录音录像等,来探讨丰富校史博物馆信息资源的方法和促进其进一步宣传的途径。     

Collegiate Priorities and Natural History Museums

Data on curatorial budgets and hiring practices of the University of Minnesota's Bell Museum of Natural History (BMNH) since 1970 are presented and discussed relative to those of academic departments in the College of Biological Sciences (CBS). Throughout the administration of the collegiate dean who recruited the museum into the college, the museum was considered to be a department equivalent and fared neither better nor worse than the departments regarding budgets and faculty recruitment. When a new dean was hired in 1987, the museum ceased to be considered as a department equivalent. Its state-allocated budgets for both public programs and collection curation have been retrenched greatly to mitigate departmental retrenchments. Four curatorial positions vacated by retirement have gone unfilled. Administrative reporting lines for museum directors within universities are discussed. It is concluded that a natural history museum is best viewed and administered as a university resource and responsibility rather than as a departmental or collegiate unit.     

Hyperconnection: Natural History Museums,Knowledge, and the Evolving Ecology of Community

Abstract Interviews conducted during the summer of 2006 with people in and around the international museum community suggest that the interests natural history museums share in common with each other and with other kinds of organizations and communities are creating an array of new links across institutional, social and cultural boundaries. These links are active, complex, networked relationships directed toward common purposes. Museums that are taking advantage of this emerging environment are becoming “hyperconnected hubs” across which knowledge is exchanged and action initiated. In forging a multitude of “weak ties” outward at different institutional levels, museums are finding that their shared activity with others brings to themselves new and often unexpected value across the “strong ties” that bind them together internally as institutions. Those natural history museums most able to participate as members of larger, interconnected entities are finding powerful new opportunities to more vigorously engage the world they study and the constituencies they serve. In the process, they are becoming increasingly open, active and relevant.     

我国自然博物馆藏品收藏现状与分析

本文介绍了国内外自然博物馆藏品收藏现状,分析我国自然博物馆存在藏品收藏总体不足、各区域自然博物馆之间藏品收藏差距较大、收藏范围较狭窄、藏品来源单一等问题,并进行了原因分析,提出正确认识自然博物馆的研究、收藏与教育的关系,加强对博物馆科研的投入,授予博物馆标本采集权,打破体制机制限制,加强对各方标本资源的利用等建议。     

《五石斋文史札记》

１９３９年民国二十八年 十月十九日星四九月初七 日晴如昨 郭振塘《湘军志平议》，盖录其祖郭筠仙、意诚昆弟所批于眉间者，加以佐证，为书仅一卷。筠仙多论文，意诚则备极丑诋。以湘绮专为贬损湘人而作，可谓谬妄，其实何损于此书毫末。湘绮信笔为文，抵晤处自不能免，若为校正未为不可，乃以湘绮善骂，又从而骂之，所谓酸子角口也。书名平议，而不持平，可发一　。晚往齐思和处开本系会议，即在其处饭。归巳十时半矣。月落衔山，一规如火，光景奇丽。 十月二十二日星期九月初 十日晴寒稍减 阅《巾箱拾羽》，徒事钞撮。虽每则之后，皆有按…     

中国旧石器考古与博物馆事业的奋斗者——裴文中先生

裴文中先生是我国著名的地质学家、古生物学家、史前考古学家、博物馆学家,不仅在旧石器考古学、第四纪哺乳动物学和生物地层学等科学领域取得了丰硕的学术成就,而且在中国现代博物馆事业上功勋卓著。他精心培养后学,为我国地质古生物和古人类事业以及博物馆事业的发展铸就了坚实的人才基础。他留下了丰厚宝贵的精神财富,让后人取之不尽、用之不竭。     

从十万卷楼抄本《章学诚全集·士习》看《文史通义·感遇》的文本写定

嘉业堂刻《章氏遗书》本《文史通义》标注有目无文的《士习》一篇,其实并未逸失。《士习》篇最早由周作人从十万卷楼抄本《实斋全集》中发现,并刊布在《国立华北编译馆馆刊》1943年第2卷第5期的开卷第一篇。由于时值日本侵华,且《馆刊》流通不广,这一发现并未引起学界的注意。十万卷楼抄本《实斋全集》今藏国家图书馆,经查阅,《士习》篇确实保存在第5册之中。《士习》并非如周作人跋语所说是《文史通义》内篇《知难》的初稿,而是《感遇》篇的初稿。通过《感遇》与《士习》16则歧异文句的文本比勘,可微观考察章学诚对著述删润写定的不同形式,并进而体察章氏学术思想与行止心境的变迁。     

国家达尔文博物馆与俄罗斯自然历史博物馆协会

创建于1907年的国家达尔文博物馆是俄罗斯历史最悠久的自然历史博物馆之一,由亚历山大·科茨等四人共同创办,该馆每年为不同的观众举办50~60个不同主题的展览。在国家达尔文博物馆中设立的俄罗斯自然历史博物馆协会发挥着联系俄罗斯各自然历史博物馆的作用。     

网上博物馆与传统博物馆

一、网络和博物馆一些媒体开始了新世纪倒计时,21世纪离我们越来越近,“网络”成为报纸、杂志和电视台使用频率最高的词汇之一。据说在中国,“上网”一词在近年所有流行词汇中名列前茅。今年1月ＣＮＮＩＣ(中国互联网络信息中心)公布的统计数,中国互联网用户截止到1999年底有890万,4月5日中央电视台晚间新闻播报的数字已经超过900万。根据ＩＤＣ预测,到2004年,中国互联网用户将发展到3989万。另外,2000年3月30日,我国第一个互联网交换中心———北京中国互联网交换中心正式开通,中国主要互联网间互联带宽由原来不足10兆比特每秒提高到100兆…