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New Horizons for Asian Museums and Museology

Editors:

  1. Naoko Sonoda

    1. National Museum of Ethnology, Suita, Japan

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  • Demonstrates how Asian countries are developing their own museology and museums, which are not simple copies of European or North American models

  • Uses carefully chosen examples to describe museums and museology in Asia today, focusing on Japan, Mongolia, Myanmar, and Thailand

  • Presents an integrated achievement of an effort of more than 20 years by the National Museum of Ethnology, Japan, in international human resource development in museology

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Table of contents (15 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  3. Asian Museums Today

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    4. Policies for National Museum Management: Solutions and Development

      • Jarunee Incherdchai
      Pages 57-67Open Access

  4. Museums in the Info-Age

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69
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    3. Rewiring Museum Information: Mobile and Cloud

      • Atsushi Nobayashi
      Pages 89-96Open Access

    4. Managing and Analyzing Museum Environmental Data

      • Naoko Sonoda
      Pages 97-109Open Access

  5. Balance Between Conservation and Access for Museums

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
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  6. Museums and Local Communities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
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    2. The Situation of Community Museums in the North of Thailand

      • Nitaya Kanokmongkol
      Pages 145-153Open Access

  7. Museums and International Cooperation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177
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About this book

This book presents up-to-date information about museums and museology in present-day Asia, focusing on Japan, Mongolia, Myanmar, and Thailand.
Asian countries today have developed or are developing their own museology and museums, which are not simple copies of European or North American models. This book provides readers with carefully chosen examples of museum activities—for example, exhibition and sharing information, database construction, access to and conservation of museum collections, relationships between museums and local communities, and international cooperation in the field of cultural heritage. Readers are expected to include museum professionals and museology students.
Throughout the course of this book, the reader will understand that a museum is not only a place for collecting, representing, and preserving cultural heritage but also plays a fundamental role in community development. This book is highly recommended to readers who seek a worldwide vision of museum studies.
The peer-reviewed chapters in this volume are written versions of the lectures delivered by selected speakers at the international symposium "New Horizons for Asian Museums and Museology" held in February 2015 at the National Museum of Ethnology, Japan.
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Keywords

  • museum
  • museology
  • Asia
  • community development
  • international cooperation
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Editors and Affiliations

  • National Museum of Ethnology, Suita, Japan

    Naoko Sonoda

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: New Horizons for Asian Museums and Museology

  • Editors: Naoko Sonoda

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0886-3

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2016

  • License: CC BY-NC

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-0885-6Published: 21 July 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9275-6Published: 13 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-0886-3Published: 20 July 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 204

  • Number of Illustrations: 130 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Cultural Heritage, Archaeology

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