The Role Of Museums In The Protection Of Intangible Cultural Heritage

For the concept of intangible cultural heritage in the world is not for a long time, the United Nations educational, scientific and cultural organization in2003September to October during the32annual conference held in Paris, France, for the protection of intangible cultural heritage convention, which makes the concept of intangible cultural heritage has become the focus of the world culture. Although the rise of the concept of time early, early in the’50s and’60s last century began to rise in some countries, but for intangible cultural heritage of the starting time of the specific protective action is late. In5000years of history in our country, each nation created a lot of material and spiritual wealth. Make our country have a large number of intangible cultural heritage, and now straighten in front of our problem is how to protect them. This is our cultural issues to consider.Known as is known to all China is a multi-ethnic country,56ethnic groups in the long-term production and life has created colorful folk culture, but we should also see such a reality:for a long time, a traditional Chinese non-material culture due to the long time the edge of the dominant mainstream culture exists in the society, and along with our country economy fast development, the globalization trend is obvious. China’s intangible cultural heritage is facing increasingly impacted by foreign culture, make some traditional culture increasingly decline even face the danger of extinction. Therefore, in view of the non-material cultural heritage of this kind of condition in our country. To the protection of it is becoming more and more from multiple organizations and a lot of research in the field of protection and attention.In China in the century into the new century, with the rapid development of economic, political, and the improvement of people’s living standards. The people in the material conditions are satisfied at the same time, also more and more pay attention to the demand for spiritual culture, so the museum as a propaganda to carry forward the important place of mass culture, it is becoming more and more attention. Because of the museum’s main responsibility is:the specialized collection, research and display the fence human history and culture of charity, it is to protect the common heritage of mankind plays a very important role. And in recent years, with the expansion of the museum extension concepts, the museum to protect heritage aspects of the content is also increasing. Now, our country in protecting cultural heritage museum extension has, it has not only limited to protect the material culture heritage (i.e., some cultural relics or historical sites) have a physical form, its extension has been extended to the specific content of protecting intangible cultural heritage, and over the years with the international and domestic related to recognition of the importance of intangible cultural heritage and deepening, make our country in the non-material cultural heritage protection work in an orderly way, in the huge project, our museum played an important role.