Approach To Society:Analysis Of Kenneth Hudson's Museum Ideas

Kenneth Hudson(1916-1999)was a British scholar who devoted into so many areas in his career,however,he preferred to be thought as a social history scholar and a museologist at the end of his whole life.Chapter 1 is the introduction.Chapter 2 is about the backgrounds of the "approach to society" idea.According to thus a phenomenon,this thesis focused on his papers and books that were wrote and published during the 1970s to 1980s.More serious,however,in the view of Hudson,museums ought to be linked with society and visitors.My study in this thesis followed two topic lines to check out on what visitors faced and the new-type museums' experiments respectively.Chapter 3 is about "a social history of museum".Hudson gave his opinion that,there was a remarkable change from privilege to right among museum visitors.For most occasions,a museum is a place of education and entertainment as a whole.Even so,applying whatever techniques and activities may seem likely to get more visitors involved in museums.It is a remarkable work to carry out visitors surveys in a professional and integrated way in the future.Chapter 4 is about "a museum of social history".It focuses on new-type museums in different ares and social backgrounds.As Hudson argued,scientific and industry museums took much more attention to their visitors and society compared with before.New-type museums such as ecomuseum,open-air museum,community museum and site museum have occurred throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in several countries.Both in carrying out services among public and in attaching value to their own society.In Hudson's opinion,a museum of influence ought to be like a lab.Chapter 5 is a conclusion.For these research,Hudson believed,there is a strong tide flowing in museum work and museology,in other words,museums approach to society.