Research On Narrative Exhibition In Museums

With the development of our economy,people's life had been improved and the consumption concept had been changed.China's museum industry grows rapidly so it has become a new place to study,relax and entertain.It also bears the responsibility of enlightening and inspiring people.In our existing museums,the majority of small and medium-sized museums,is the main force of museums.However,the exhibitions of small and medium-sized museums mostly present a state of empty and boring contents.The boring content of exhibition and its outdated display can no longer meet the growing spiritual and cultural needs of people.So what is the purpose of museum exhibition? How people make the purpose come true? How can exhibition and its design give the visitor an effective trip to reach the purpose of displaying,upholding and transmitting regional and national culture? All these are so urgent to solve."Narratology" started in the early 20 th century,and this concept originated from the field of literature.The basic system of Narratology was established in the last 1960 s,on this basic,Narratology was proposed as a science for studying the narrative works.After that Narratology's development broke through the the boundaries of literature,it reached to the field of humanities and social economy,becoming a common way to do scientific research.Under this background,museum industry started to embrace Narratology actively,researchers called it as the narrative turning of museum.The exhibition is the medium through which museum can realize its narrative purpose.Any other narrative medium cannot compared with exhibition because of its two-way communication feature.So the narrative turning of museum is not only self-improvement and intrinsic requirement,but also to follow the trend of time and meet the need of the visitor.At the initial stage,museum exhibition had the tendency to display narratively.Setting up the exhibition according to the sequence of timeline shows theoriginal feature of narrative.To some extent,all displays are about history which can be showed in chronological order.It has the basic narrative line of ‘'Story-telling'',so the museum exhibition is suitable for narrative design.Combining the museum exhibition with narratology and using relative theories and researches of narrative not only organize and present the contents of exhibition in narrative way,but also put the whole display contents into a complete and systematical frame.Narrative exhibition in museum has become a design language for curator to tell stories to the audience,and it is also a process to display,describe and design the exhibition contents in a narrative way.The usage of this theory gives a fresh start to museum display design,converting the primary design method.All essential elements of narrative exhibition are presented in every exhibition part,curator should coordinate the relations of every elements,putting them into a entirety to show the theme of exhibition.Exhibition design should follow the plot development and sequence of space,leading visitors feel the ups and downs of stories showed in the exhibition through the changes of narrative clues and routes.Museum display design should not only focus on the theme and structure but also the conversion of space to give an attention to the overall space design.Curator can display the space narrative contents in literary narrative way,taking full advantage of space and putting the exhibition contents under the whole space through complete space design.The appropriated space design can create contagious atmosphere and coordinate contents with environment,causing visitors have the same feelings and deep understanding of exhibition so that it can get the museum improved and make its social education function better.Taking the Zhoukou Museum as the object of study,this paper makes a narrative analysis of its exhibitions.In the investigation and study of a large number of successful cases of narrative exhibition in museums,this paper makes a comprehensive and detailed analysis andreflection on the current exhibition of the Zhoukou Museum,and makes a detailed analysis and dissection of the problems existing in the exhibition,in order to realize the narrative construction of the Zhoukou Museum's Basic Exhibition,the author puts forward some suggestions for improvement.Narrative exhibition makes a new value space to museum exhibition design.All-round experience space made by multi-method and muti-angle is the best functional place for narrative design in museum display design.