Figures Memorial Exhibition Content Design

Focusing on the commemoration and interpretation of a historical personage, museum of historical figure is a special branch as well as an important part in the museums in China. It conserves and cherishes collective memory, protects and maintains the core of social culture, and still, tries to exert a strong influence from these famous names in the history. Nevertheless, nowadays most of the museums of historical figure suffer from the situation of fewer visitors and their less passion for even stepping into the place. The reason why people keep away from the museums of historical figure is because their poor thematic exhibitions lack of interpretation and attraction, offer little availability of knowledge and provide no enlightening and educational experiences at all. Indeed, too many flaws might be found and upbraided in the exhibition development process, on both a theoretical and a practical level, and especially in the stage of narrative and storytelling, which is quite exactly the basis of the thematic exhibitions. As a result, the museums of historical figure and their extremely boring exhibitions offered few enjoyable means of assimilating information and interpretation about the historical personage, had no effect of stimulating curiosity and interest, and disappointed their visitors a lot, hence the museum goal is incapable to be attained.With reference to what researchers did about the exhibition planning, and with the status quo analyzing, the paper will focus on the stage of narrative and storytelling for the thematic exhibitions in museums of historical figure. Four major steps in the stage will be the key points of the research:How to establish the mission, how to pick a proper theme, how to produce and flesh the outline and how to prepare the text for the exhibition? The paper will do the studying in a meticulous way, find the crux and try to figure out the solutions to the problems occurred.Four major steps exist, and then four chapters constitute the main body of the paper. In Chapter I, the goal and the educational role of the thematic exhibition will be discussed and targeted. Research in Chapter II will concentrate on the exhibition subject and find out how to extract the essential value of the collections and the information all concerned with the historical personage. Continuing with the theme, in Chapter III, research is ongoing to set the trend of the storyline and flesh it out by assigning the interrelated elements to different segments. Then, in Chapter IV, the paper will shed light on the preparation of the written information for the interpretation, including the titles, text labels, object labels, the initiative description of the "Gee whizz" factor in the exhibition and other copy for comprehension.Following the research in these four steps, an instructive manual for the stage of narrative and storytelling will be brought out, and a series of principles can be put into practice of the establishment of the thematic exhibitions in the museums of historical figure, which probably will be helpful to improve the exhibitions, pull the museums of historical figure out of the embarrassing current situation, and make them win public's attention, so that they can truly be multi-faceted, multi-purposed and multi-dimensional organizations as well as places for the visitors to be educated, entertained and enriched, not just shrines for dwelling the historical personage.