A Research On The Relevancy Of Museology And Museum Architecture

Museum architecture is one of the building types with high specialization degree, which needs to be researched systematically and theoretically. Museology is an interrelated new discipline, which investigates the purpose, organization and law of the operation of museum. It is valuable to consider the basic conception of museology in museum architecture design.This thesis is based upon the theory and practice of museology. By analyzing and comparing various functions of museum, the thesis makes a deep research on the exhibition one, which plays an important role in the design of museum. The exhibition of museum consists of four key elements--exhibit, information, visitor and space. The main body of the thesis is to make a relevancy research on the four key elements and museum architecture.The main text of the thesis is as follows:At first, a relevancy research between exhibits and museum architecture is explored. Concerning of the characteristics of exhibits, the influence of exhibits to museum architecture is investigated in a brief history of museum. The relevancy of modern museum architecture and exhibition, which considers exhibits as the core, is also studied.Secondly, the relevancy of environmental information and museum architecture is discussed. Contemplating the functions of information in exhibition, museum architecture has the advantage of constructing the environmental information. Additionally two types of museum architecture with characteristic of the environmental information are studied at the end of this part.In the third part, the effects of visitors on museum architecture are studied. Exhibition has been greatly changed from focusing on exhibits in the past to visitors now. The factor of visitors in exhibition will be more important in modern museum architecture.Finally, contemplating the history and development of the new museology, the concept and practice of two kinds of typical museums---eco-museum and community museum are studied here. Meanwhile the reference effects of the new museology to understanding and design of traditional museum architecture are explored adequately.