Preliminary Research On The Eco-Museum Of China

The concept of ecomuseum began in the early1970s in France; it has been adopted and practiced inmany countries around the world. The ecomuseum targets to break the restrain from the space?and holisticcoordinated protect the community's natural environment, cultural heritage and pay special attention to theinhabitants who live in a particular natural environment, closely related to the cultural heritage of thehuman factors and demands?so as to improve the community's culture's recognition and the developmentamong the human, the existing, and the environment. Nearly30ecomuseums have been built in China fromthe middle of the1990s, but the operating situation is not optimistic because of many factors. From theenvironment and museum different perspectives, fundamental causes of ecomuseum concept are briefly tobe analyzed.Above all, from the angles of both environmental thoughts, the museum differentiation and theprotection of cultural diversity, the basic root of the concept of ecomuseum is to be analyzed and thesituations of the exploration of the concept of ecomuseum in France, Canada, the United States, Sweden,Japan, and British is to be introduced, basing on which the macroscopic ecomuseum problems in theprocess of practice are inductively analyzed since these problems may also exist in China.Secondly,from the theoretical knowledge of construction and development, the natural distribution,classification and generational divide, the construction and development problems about Chineseecomuseums to expound the general situation of it.Then taking Guizhou ecomuseum groups andZhejiang Anji ecomuseum groups as investigation objects, through the investigating and researching on theacceptance and the attitudes of the native inhabitants, from these three layers?the background andconditions of the construction, concrete construction process and operation management of the Chineseecomuseums, and comparative analysis the differences between Guizhou ecomuseum groups and ZhejiangAnji ecomuseum groups.Last but not the least, rooted in the nowadays China's real situation, the rethought is undertaken withthe reference to the practice experience of ecomuseum in domestic and abroad combining with field surveyresults reflected on the development of China's ecomuseums.Expound the achievements of theecomuseums in China, the existing problems of Chinese ecomuseum will be analyzed with the theories:"critique of the museum to learn",“social ecology” and “antimony”,then the causes and solving ideas are tobe disscussed.From all the analysis above, it's true that under the high economy development, China'secomuseums must come back to the native areas, informing the inhabitants with the concept of theecomuseums can courage them to launch the action of ecomuseums building actively and make themdesign, plan the operation lines by themselves. At the same time, it is an effective way to developecomuseums with the broad participation but the limited support from the government and society, thus thepositive effects from the ecomuseums can be better promoted in protecting ecological environment,keeping the cultural heritage, and improving the community development.