Local Museums Basic Display Of The Exhibition Themes And Content-targeted Research

Focusing on displaying the regional history and culture, Regional Museum, which takes a big part in the museums in China, is usually regarded to be an important cultural symbol of the certain region. Nowadays, most of the regional museums are facing a disappointing situation that their permanent exhibitions seem to be lack of individuation and dissatisfy people. Mis-orientation of the exhibition theme and contents, which reflects the ignoring or the misunderstanding of Regional Museum's proper characters and functions and the misplaying on collecting and studying, is the key factor that causes the poor displaying quality. Starting with the status quo analyzing, the paper will do a systemic studying on the proper characters and functions of Regional Museum, and follow this to make orientation for its permanent exhibition. Furthermore, working on some of the successful cases, the paper will try to sum up some principles from their exhibition experience for the reference of Regional Museums in China, and also, the paper works to establish a pattern for planning the Regional Museum's permanent exhibitions.