Research On The Development And Design Of Children’s Cultural And Creative Products In Museums ——Taking The Ancient Civilization Of Andes As An Example

As a special social educational institution and cultural infrastructure,museums play an important role in social education for children.The survey found that in recent years,an increasing number of school-age child in China are guided by schools or accompanied by parents to visit,and study in museums,and they have the demand to buy cultural and creative products of museums after visiting exhibitions.but the growing development of cultural and creative products in museums somehow ignored children as a target audience.At present,most domestic museums do not pay enough attention to the development of children’s creative products.The development of creative products is not systematic.Most of museums have no separate classification for children.Also,the number of children’s cultural and creative products in the existing museums is quite small,with boring design and widely varied standards.As a result,the role of knowledge education and attraction of museums to children are greatly weakened.Therefore,how to build the children’s cultural and creative products as an expansion of museum’s education scoping,how to make it as an effective extension and great supplement to exhibitions,and how to make museums stay functional lives regarding social education,in addition,maximize its mass-communication ability,are the questions that need to be answered.Based on the background,as well as facing the current situation of the absence of children’s cultural and creative products in China’s museums,the author in-depth probed and analyzed the pain points of poor production and unpolished ideas of existing products in the special exhibition of “Ancient Civilization of the Andes” by on site investigation,surveys and other preliminary work.This research is based on the main design concept-“teaching with practice,learning with interests",which puts forward the following design solutions that children’s cultural and creative products should be developed and primarily followed children’s nature,the products are expected to be combined with interactive games,multi-cultural and diversified carriers.The author tries to design and develop children’s board game of "Looking for the lost El Dorado" and a series of educational cultural and creative products called “The tour of the Andes” for the exhibition.The purpose is to provide feasible methods and solutions to fill the blank in the development of children’s cultural and creative products in museums,as well as attempting and offering new ways of thinking to its educability.