Exploring How to Tell the Story of Historical Museum Exhibitions

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10.2991/978-2-38476-382-5_62How to use a DOI?

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Museums; History-based Exhibitions; Exhibition Narratives

Abstract

Based on the research on the narrative of history exhibitions in contemporary Chinese museums, this paper summarizes the main shortcomings that still exist in the narrative of contemporary Chinese history exhibitions, including the weaknesses of the exhibition narrative, the contradictions of history exhibitions themselves, and some problems in museum research. Telling a good story is both a necessary path for the development of museum exhibitions in China and a rocky road that is currently being crossed. In response to the question of how to optimize the museum's storytelling, curators should start from the macro level by reconstructing the information about the artifacts in a deconstructive way, proposing ideas that resonate, and guiding the audience to a comprehensive understanding of the story in a process-based solution.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wen Chen
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/03/28
TI  - Exploring How to Tell the Story of Historical Museum Exhibitions
BT  - Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Social Sciences and Educational Development (ICOSSED 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 633
EP  - 644
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-382-5_62
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-382-5_62
ID  - Chen2025
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