Research On The Solution To The Improvement Of The Efficiency Of Popular Science Museums In Shenyang

Popular science museums, as the major public properties of a country or region, act as a driving force of promoting the public scientific literacy, quality education, and scientific and technological development, In developed countries or regions abroad as well as some of the cities home, popular science museums have played an important part in the daily life of citizens. However, the efficiency of popular science museums in Shenyang needs to be improved. Problems exist for quite a long time: both the construction rate and utilization rate were low; there were not so many visitors. All these lead to waste of resources of popular science museums, which hinders the promotion of public scientific literacy. An innovation of improving the efficiency of popular science museums looms ahead.This paper focuses on the introduction of the main concepts, classification, features and functions of popular science museums based on relative theories about public goods supply and public scientific literacy, emphasizing the main index of efficiency evaluation and importance of improving efficiency of popular science museums, and the development of popular science museums home and abroad as well as the experiences from those museums. Based on the fundamental theories about public goods supply and public effect, a strategy and suggestion on improving the efficiency of popular science museums was given from the perspective of public goods, public effect and economic effect by analyzing the development and main issues of popular science museums in Shenyang.The study shows that comprehensive and market-oriented management should be adopted, finance source should be expanded to encourage social and personal donations. Besides, the evaluation and assessment should also be strengthened so as to stimulate competition, and law supervision should be improved. At the same time, the company are also encouraged to build public science museums with their own distinctive characteristics. From the perspective of exhibition, the education function is defined and emphasized. By developing styles and content of exhibitions, the museums will become more attractive to visitors. Furthermore, the influence of the museums will also be deepened by means of popular science tours.