The Research Assessment Of Museums

From 2008, in order to better grasp the development of the museum, promote the healthy development of museums comprehensively, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage start to organize the assessment and grading work of museums. Till 2010, the grade one, two, and three museums assessment have already completed, and even more, in 2010, the assessment of the museum's operation has scheduled out. Museum assessment as a whole procedure, it is an important part that academic research and science technology take in the assessment, even, in a considerable extent, museum research determines the overall level and grade of the museum.Manchukuo palace museum is one of the first batches to apply national first-degree museums, so the application materials and scores have significant features of the initial grading implementation.Based on the summaries of the past experience of museum assessment in the world, this article takes the manchukuo palace museum as a case, according to the and the , extends the research assessment to establish a more rational mode to evaluate museum and museum research.The first and second parts outline the conception and origin of museum research assessment, let out the necessary to conduct research assessment.Given the past classification method of museum, and the standard of national museum assessment, considered that research assessment requirements, the third part assorts the museum category, even describes museum research level factors.The fourth part is the most important part of this article, based on the apply to the assessment scores of manchukuo palace museum in 2008, this part picks out the academic research and science technology as research assessment data, integrates data and re-analyzes the research situation ,advantage and disadvantage of manchukuo palace museum. Finally, the author illustrates the limits of this assessment, even analyzes the problems of current assessment standards in further, and puts out some suggests for the membership of the assessment group, assessment standards classification and scoring system.The last part describes the achievements and shortcomings of this article. Based on the experience of writing and the knowledge about museum assessment and research, the author presents some suggestions to a more meaningful museum research assessment.