Predicament And Outlet Of The Museum In The Transitional Period Of China

The seventeen session of the six plenary session of the party pointed out that culture has become key source for national cohesion and creativity, a key factor of competition in overall national strength and an important support for social and economic development. To enrich the spiritual and cultural life is our people’s earnest wish today.Social development is bestowed with culture. Public cultural service system is for the prosperity and development of socialist advanced culture and to realize and ensure people’s culture rights and interests. The building of public cultural service system has significant importance of promoting the all-round development of man and its practice, improving the whole nation’s ideological and ethical standards and scientific and cultural quality, making China a prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally developed and harmonious modern socialist country. It’s a strategic task for culture development in modern China.As a key sector of public cultural service system, museum takes great responsibility of serving public and serving people. The article provides a detailed analyze of the difficult positions Chinese museums are facing in the new age and offers a relatively systematic elaboration for museums future and the way out of the predicaments.The first chapter introduces research background, ideas, methods, literature review and theoretical principles; The second chapter introduces museum’s history, type, function and its connections with public cultural service system; The third chapter points out the predicaments in the age of development and the fourth chapter provides the causes; The fifth chapter elaborates the meanings, directions, forms and effects of public cultural service by taking overseas museums as examples; In the sixth chapter the article comes up with the views that museum should deepen its structural and mechanism reform, stand firm in the view of public culture service, make efforts to improve the level of exhibition and enhance mass participation; People-oriented idea should always be kept in mind in social education and academic research work and more all-around talents should be attracted to serve the public culture service.In the last of the article, the author briefs the article innovation points and its insufficiencies.