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Day 3: SPEAKERS

Poster Presentation

Poster Presentation

Part 1 Session Time: 10.30am – 11.30am
Part 2 Session Time: 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Venue: Ngee Ann Auditorium Foyer, B1 | Discovery Room, B1 | Demo Room, B1

Proposed Strategy for Visiting the Conservation Labs in the Museums from Educational Perspective

Mr Mohamed Waheed Ali ElMorsi
Executive Manager of the Conservation Center,
The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC)

Museum conservation practices shifted in approaches and goals during the last century. Some changes were the result of a maturing of the field. Others were a consequence of changes in museums themselves, including growing professionalism among staff of conservators; redefinitions of museums and their roles and responsibilities; and the impact of political, cultural, and economic pressures on museum management.

The purpose of this study is to make a strategy for visiting the conservation labs in the museums with general guidelines to attract new audiences from educational perspective and serves the community through education and training, field projects, and disseminating information and provide opportunities to ask conservators – behind the scene – about the exciting work where the conservation of art stands in the spotlight. By this strategy, the visitors will have the opportunity to come up close to prestigious artefacts and understand better the richness and value of these national artefacts and the measures which are being taken to keep them protected for future generations.

The study also will focus on the different concepts of conservation terms within the restoration laboratories in museums, and development of the mission, vision and values of the restoration laboratories supporting the mission and goals of the museum with applied on the conservation laboratories of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization NMEC.

Prospecting Future Museum: Service at the Door, Perspective Bangladesh

Mr Muminur Rashid
Assistant Curator, National Museum of Science and Technology

Museums always works for visitor from particular establishment. But sometimes it not possible to provide service in distant areas or rural communities. Visitors always come to museums or
science centres to explore the exhibits. Visitors who are staying far from the museums cannot
visit because of transport, cost of travel and other causes. Consequently, they are depriving from
the learning and experience. Every museum has a vision and working with a mission to achieve
their goal. Cultural Museums bear the history and ancient artefact where War Museum established basis on the collections of historical data and remnants. Science Museums or Science Centre are established to promotion and creating awareness science education. When a visitor visits a particular museum they can understand its effectiveness. But the visitors who can’t explore the museum due to connectivity are missing the opportunities. Countries like Bangladesh, it’s not possible to establish territorial museum or centre overnight due budget constrain and other causes.

To connect underprivileged section of the country most of the museums and learning centre are
introducing Mobile exhibition basis on maximum service minimum cost.

To educate the students who had not been exposed to the glory and the pain that the Bengali
Nation had experience in 1971, Liberation war Museum of Bangladesh introduced their maiden
Mobile exhibition service on 18 July 2004.

National Museum of Science and Technology (NMST) is the only Science Museum in Bangladesh.
To create a science-minded nation NMST is working with permanent exhibitions on 26 April 1965. In 2010 this institutions very first time launched its mobile exhibition ‘Museo-bus’ to cover the rural areas. Now NMST accelerated its mobile exhibitions by introducing Museobus, Mobile 4D movie buses, mobile observatory buses, mobile planetarium and telescope.

ICT Division of the Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications & Information Technology bearing the motto ‘future is here’ introduced the Digital Training Bus to empowered the rural women for ‘Sustainable Women Development through ICT’ in 2016. It’s a bus fabricated with modern ICT equipment which is using for exhibitions and training.

‘Bisso Shahitto Kendro’ is a Centre of arts and entertainment. To establish the culture of habit of
reading books and journal, they introduced Mobile Library bus in 1999.

Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR) recently introduced Mobile
Laboratory Bus to reach the remote area and giving facilities hands-on scientific experiments.

Department of Mass Communication (DMC) of Bangladesh has introduced a large fleet of mobile cinema vans equipped with multimedia and Cineplex to provide service to remote to
establish quality education by using archival exhibitions. There is a collaboration of Bangladesh
Film Achieve Museum.

Above mentions activities clearly showing that services are going to door so that no one out of
facilities. As a result vision of institution is materialising and reducing of social gap which can
be followed by the world

Science, Music and Theatre: A New Sound of Education for the Museum of Paleontology and Prehistory “P. Leonardi”, Ferrara, Italy.

Ms Chiara Parisi
PhD student, Museum of Paleontology and Prehistory “Piero Leonardi” – University of Ferrara

University museums keep collections that represent an extraordinary source of historical and
scientific knowledge but, very often, little known and valued.

The Museum of Paleontology and Prehistory “P. Leonardi” of the University of Ferrara has the main objective of giving a new voice to its collections and their educational values. To do this, trying to be innovative and inclusive, on the occasion of the Carnival the Museum has organised an event entitled “The Carnival of animals at the Museum … on the notes of Saint-Saëns”.

The first step of the project was the creation of a digital storytelling which, with the musical background of the songs from “The Carnival of Animals” (by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns), introduces the paleontological path and part of the museum collections. Then, a guided tour of the Museum was organised through the recitation of poems about the animals and the explanation of the collections for elementary school children.

The results of the event were very positive and highlighted the great functionality of the work methodology applied, also resulting in an excellent tool to be able to capture the attention of students with neurocognitive difficulties as well.

Digital Narratives Using Natural History Objects Related to Japanese Culture and Tradition at the University Museum and Library of Agricultural and Life Science

Dr Sayuri Tanabashi
Associate Professor, University of Tsukuba
Ms Momoko Yamamoto
Doctoral Student, University of Helsinki and University of Antwerp
Mr Shiraiwa Shikoh
Doctoral Student, University of Helsinki and University of Antwerp

This study explored the benefits of employing digital narratives for object-based learning for future sustainability using curated objects from the University Museum and Library of Agricultural and Life Science. Object-based learning is an active or experiential learning mode that incorporates collections and objects into the learning environment. Today, digital technologies have been installed in museums and archives. This study employed learning objectives for digital object-based learning from the digital archives of the University Library for Agricultural and Life Sciences of the University of Tokyo. The digital archives of the library includes many rare books related to agriculture and life sciences, such as animal life sciences, aquatic bioscience, forest life science, and veterinary medical sciences. Most Japanese cultural and traditional resources for the virtual documents were collected or curated within the library, and so were the physical specimens, all of which were employed as learning materials for agriculture and life sciences. There were several benefits identified in using digital narratives for object-based learning that combined virtual objects with real objects. Using rare books of Japanese native flowering trees including cerasus and camellia, this study suggested that using narratives associated with virtual and real objects for object-based learning can attract learner interest and enhance learning efficacy, with the digital university library archives being the digital yard and the specimen room, classroom, or museum being the back and/ or front yards.

Rethinking National Treasures, Reconstructing Our Values: A Case Study of the Audio Guide for Children of the National Museum of Taiwan History

Ms Wu Meng Ching
Research Assistant, National Museum of Taiwan History

The National Museum of Taiwan History, which opened in 2011, is a museum focusing on Taiwan’s history and culture. As a relatively new museum, one of our main challenges is the fact that our collection mostly consists of everyday objects of ordinary people, which are often not considered precious enough to be labelled as “national treasures.”

To subvert the traditional definition of national treasures as some uniqueness of artefacts, the museum’s audio guide for children employs a game-based strategy. During the tour, young visitors are invited to join a team of treasure hunters—the young boy Xiaotai (named after Taiwan), Yuma the indigenous girl, and a female historian— who search for treasures hidden among the exhibition rooms; these “treasures” include reports about a 12-year-old girl taken captive, a pop album under martial law, a box of mementos from a soldier, etc. The tour is based on the exploration of historical narratives, and the user meets ordinary people from the past whose stories are often buried in the grand narrative. Through these various methods, we hope to develop children’s ability for historical critique, reflection, and empathy.

By introducing young protagonists children can relate to, our audio guide for children encourages the exchange and sharing of different experiences, perspectives, and feelings and broadens our horizons. And this case allowing us to focus on the intermediary objects that help us explore the past, have conversations, and work towards a common future, as well as reconsider our value systems from a brand new angle.

From Service to Companionship: Making Touch Exhibits of the Permanent Exhibition More Accessible at the National Museum of Taiwan History

Ms Chia-Yi Lin
Research Assistant, National Museum of Taiwan History

In 2021, the National Museum of Taiwan History (NMTH) established seven new touch exhibits to its permanent exhibition. The aim was to incorporate inclusive learning that makes Taiwan’s history accessible to the visually impaired, and fulfill the museum’s social responsibility and cultural equality.

To improve the experience of visually impaired people who visit the touch exhibits, we invited special education experts and visually impaired to work with our curator team, docent tour designers, and frontline workers to examine the needs of visually impaired people, develop learning resources such as Braille booths, large print guides, and audio descriptive tours (ADT). Afterwards, we provided frontline workers with training courses that instructed them on how to interact with visually impaired visitors and use the learning resources. Additionally, we aimed to make our ADT more “companionable” by introducing a certification system for ADT guides. During the exam, candidates must play the role of both the guide and the visually impaired visitor successively and discuss their experiences. This system is meant to enhance their understanding of and empathy for the visually impaired, as well as promote a sense of identity among workers who provide such services. Certified workers reported that they could now better understand the experience of visually impaired visitors and provide better companionship and services, while visually impaired visitors rave about the services these workers provide.

Our goal is to provide professional disability services that create a safe, trustworthy, and positive environment for visually impaired visitors to experience and making the museum more accessible to the visually impaired community.

Bilingual, A New Role of Museum Education?: Rethinking Bilingual Education in Taiwanese Museums

Ms Chung-Wen, Weng
Graduate Student, Graduate Institute of Museum Studies, National Taipei University of the Arts

Since Taiwanese Government launched the Bilingual 2030 Policy in 2019, Taiwan’s Museums gradually follow the footsteps to provide the bilingual (English and Mandarin Chinese) activities. As one of the goals of the policy is to create more bilingual conditions, both formal and informal education institutes are encouraged to introduce English into different school subjects and activities. This study will first have a brief review on Taiwanese educators and scholars reflect on Bilingual policy. Analysing in why Taiwan is considered a “different condition”, and thus makes it hard to mimic Singapore’s successful bilingual achievement. Then, the study will take Bilingual Science Experiment Course in the National Science Education Center as a case study. The course is a long-term programme consists in 4 sessions, each session consists of 6 courses, related to chemistry, physics, biology, or earth science. The study will take the 3 first courses in 3rd session pre-scheduled in September 2023, as sample. The 20 signed up students, age between 7-12, will receive post-end evaluation designed in Likert scale before and after every course. The evaluation focuses on three main concerns: which teaching material impressed students the most (i.e., hands-on experiments, life hacks related to Science knowledge, etc.); whether students feel more familiar with communicating and expressing themselves in English; feedback and satisfaction. Furthermore, by joining both planning and teaching progress of the 1st and 2nd sessions, the researcher found museum’s bilingual activities are well accepted and favoured by Taiwanese audiences. However, the researcher argues that, most of the bilingual museum activities nowadays require the participants to sign up in order to engage. The system might be considered an exclusion for those who are not confident in their English, and thus accelerate the education inequality.

In summary, the evaluation helps to find out the feedback of students, and empirical research helps to develop instructions and advices for planning future
cases. More importantly, the study on newly emerged bilingual activities paces
a novel way for museums to fulfil the educational role.

Bridging Gaps through Museum Co-Learning: Workshop Design and Effects of Curatorial Education In NMTH

Ms Yu-hsuan Fang
Project Assistant, National Museum of Taiwan History

Since 2014, the National Museum of Taiwan History (NMTH) has been promoting an innovative educational model: curatorial education. By combining Taiwanese history with the methods and perspectives of cultural and historical research, collections, exhibitions, and education in the museum NMTH creates a lesson plan to cultivate interdisciplinary abilities and critical thinking. To further the promote curatorial education, NMTH held the first curatorial workshop for teenagers,”Watch Taiwan Award”, in 2020, which achieved remarkable results. Based on this success, a new workshop model, “Taiwan Story Academy”, was created in 2022, with adjustments made to enhance its impact. The establishment of Taiwan Story Academy is a declaration of thought that emphasises the importance of the learning process in co-learning workshops, allowing students to deeply aware their own progress and changes.

During the co-learning workshop and curation process, it was clear that the interaction not only influence the students and mentors, but also interviewees, school teachers, exhibition audiences, and NMTH. While interacting, gaps between them were gradually bridged. For example, students bridged the generation gaps and found self-identity, interviewees discovered their self-worth, school teachers were inspired to design new lessons, audiences discovered stories of Taiwan, and NMTH practiced the concept of “public history in the museum”. From this case, it is evident that museum education can bridge diverse gaps through the design of teaching methods and bring non-museum-goers into the learning community. This has prompted us to start thinking about curatorial education as a possibility for everyone to explore themselves and understand Taiwan. Making the whole island together as a learning community will not be just an aspiration.

Similitude Entre Institutions Traditionnelles Culturelles Ivoiriennes et Musées : Cas du Poro au Nord de la Côte d’Ivoire

Mdm Viviane Nguessan
Conservateur de Musée, Musée des civilisations de Côte d’Ivoire

La culture est un maillon essentiel dans notre marche vers les hauteurs du développement. Elle aide à forger les connaisses, à favoriser l’ancrage de l’individu dans la société en régulant ses actions dans son approche aux autres, à étirer l’horizon des savoirs adossés aux respects des règles communes à une communauté donnée.

Sa pérennisation pour un essor des générations a incité à la création d’institutions patrimoniales modernes à vocation de sauvegarde et diffusion des valeurs et richesses artistiques et culturelles issues de l’ingéniosité créatrice de l’homme.

Cependant, contrairement à l’avènement des édifices muséaux, force est de constater des pratiques culturelles ancestrales adoptées par les communautés avec pour but unique, la conservation et la perpétuation de la chaine de transmission de l’héritage culturel.

Le choix du présent sujet : « Similitude entre institutions traditionnelles culturelles ivoiriennes et musées : cas du poro au Nord de la Côte d’Ivoire » s’inscrit donc la trajectoire d’une mise en relation entre les institutions traditionnelles culturelles et les institutions muséales en s’appuyant sur le cas pratique du poro pour une mise en lumière des points de similitude entre elles.

Enhancing the Museum Experience for Elderly Visitors: An Action Research Approach to Survey and Activity Planning at the National Taiwan Museum Railway Department

Ms Kao, Yu-Hsuan
Education Assistant, Department of Education, National Taiwan Museum
Ms Yeh, Chia-Yu
Project Assistant, Museum Island Column, Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Ms Kuo, Kuan-Ting
Project Assistant, Museum Island Column, Ministry of Culture, Taiwan

With an increasing number of elderly visitors to museums, it has become essential to understand their educational needs and preferences. This study aims to explore the preferences of elderly visitors for museum education activities and develop a programme on sustainability that addresses their needs. To this end, a survey was conducted and 178 valid responses were collected from visitors aged 50 or above. The results revealed that elderly visitors expected educational activities that were imbued with professional knowledge and nostalgic themes. They also preferred guided tours led by experts, as these facilitated learning and appreciation of museum exhibits and architecture.

Drawing on the survey findings, we developed a programme “The Green Heritage Tour” (古蹟綠師團) that integrates historical buildings within the museum with the popular concept of sustainability. Docent lead visitors on a guided tour to discover green building elements in several historical sites, introducing the Green Building Labelling System (EEWH) for subtropical climates in Taiwan. Finally, visitors were invited to design their own green buildings and share their ideas with others through drawing. We observed that the elderly visitors perceived visiting historical sites not only as a nostalgic experience but also as an opportunity to learn about history and cultural heritage. Furthermore, by introducing green building elements, the programme successfully established a connection between elderly visitors and the contemporary discourse on sustainable development.

In conclusion, through the survey conducted, we gained insights into the preferences of elderly visitors and developed “The Green Heritage Tour” that caters to their needs while promoting sustainable development. This programme can serve as a model for museums to develop activities tailored to different age groups, providing a lifelong learning environment that establishes a connection between elderly visitors and contemporary issues.

Local Stories, Local Voices: The Design and Practice of “Place Name Tells Stories”

Ms Shiuan Chiang
Project Assistant, National Museum of Taiwan History

With careful design, internet and digital tools can be used to promote and encourage the idea of a more open and diverse society. “Place Name Tells Stories” is a website produced by National Museum of Taiwan History (NMTH) that presents the history of Taiwan and the diversity of culture in a non-traditional way. Instead of showing interaction of cultures in historical events in chronicle or geographical way, this website layout all the stories together on one page, presenting a diverse image of Taiwan’s history. The website also encourages audiences to join a co-creation action, connect history with the present time and even the imagination of future.

The idea of interaction of cultures was shown through 27 stories of place names, most of which are names only known by local groups of people in their oral memory or folktale. Audiences can hear the story and pronunciation of the place name in native language voiceover by the local experts, with profiles of the local experts and a short note of local memory regarding the stories. Other than that, the website also has a co-creation space, that allows audiences to upload their own place name stories.

The website is an attempt at a digital solution to promote diversity and let the local voice be heard, both physically and metaphorically. With the power of the internet, we can create a virtual space that is open to everyone and thus build up the richness of the diverse Taiwanese landscape together.

Nurturing Identity: Case Study of Songket Woven Fabric Collection of City Museum of Palembang Sultan Mahmud Badarudin Ii

Mrs Nyimas Ulfah
Museum Manager, Museum Kota Palembang Smb II
Ms Sriwulantuty RO
Deputy Director, Indonesia Hidden Heritage Creative Hub
Mr Aryo Bimo Widiotomo
Event Director, Indonesia Hidden Heritage Creative Hub

Palembang City Museum is located in cultural heritage the 18th century fortress of Kuto Besak which once was a symbol of power and prosperity during the golden era of Palembang Sultanate with traditional Songket woven fabric intangible cultural heritage valued. This research uses a qualitative descriptive method with a systematic description. The description based on factual data collection regarding to requirement of new museum model. The results showed that the public communication of Songket Woven Fabric as intangible cultural heritage need to be improved by updating historical and cultural information through the use of latest technology as well as strengthening on-site workshop in the Museum and involving wider creative education business to strengthen the preservation effort of Songket as part of their identity. Improving the quality of the collection is a process in achieving the museum’s vision. Adopting technology based on-site support the paradigm to a new museum is necessary.

Case Study on How the Travelling Exhibition of National Museum of Taiwan Literature Promote Literature Education Based on Young Leaners’ Intentions and Attitudes

Ms Chun-Yuan Kao
Postgraduate Student, National Chung Hsing University
Ms Hsin-Yi Chao
Assistant Professor, National Chung Hsing University

Travelling exhibition is an innovative concept for literature education, it consists of multiple interactive devices that aim to attract the interest of students to learn the literary topics and contents of the exhibition provide with. The museum-school collaboration can be implied by lending the travelling exhibition to the schools and directly set up on the campus. This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of the exhibit itself, and the devices in the exhibition about enhancing the student’s willingness to approach the contents related to the topic exhibited. The case of the collaboration between Taichung Municipal Daya Junior High School in Taiwan and National Museum of Taiwan Literature, a school library teacher applied the travelling exhibition “The Power of Literature – Writing OUR TAIWAN” to expand the ability of reading literature for students. Researchers intend to answer two main questions: (1) Do the participants have the intentions to go to the museum in person to extend literature-related contents? (2) How are the interactive devices in the exhibition affecting the students’ attitude to learn more literacy topics? During the exhibit period for 16 days in May 2023, 250 junior high school students in 10 classes, the reading course once a week, will visit the travelling literacy exhibition and fill in the questionnaire with satisfaction, comprehension, and motivation questions. Also, researchers will observe and record the students’ visiting behaviours when they interact with three learning devices, “Literature Search”, “Game of choose one from the other”, and “Literary box”. In sum, to connect the youth and museums, the results of the investigation and observation on the effectiveness of the travelling exhibition about its total and separate efficacy will increase the opportunities of usage and promotion between museum collections and schools in the future.

Building a Community Care-Driven Science Centre- Powering Participatory Tools for Future Education and Empowerment

Mr Yen-Ting Lin
Customer Service Assistant, Glasgow Science Centre

The Tokyo Protocol set out from the Science Centre World Summit has urged worldwide science centres and science museums to the imperative recognition of STEM for meeting sustainable development goals(SDGs). Additionally, it has elaborated the ambition of taking major action in developing the best methods for engaging learners, also to optimise formal and informal education. Given the sociocultural barriers to a variety of learners and the challenge of implementing global goals in formal education, and insufficient STEM engagement opportunities for the community, the science centre and museum with the potential of providing global goals learning resources and more inclusive education have the power to deliver more to learner’s need and future transformation, as well as cascade better educational practices to enhance an empowerment outcome. Following the success of the equity compass from the YESTEM project, which has brought the possibility for supporting equity and social justice in informal STEM learning, also based on the World-view Oriented Learning Framework mainly applied in indigenous science education and adopted in museum education discussion, this research aims to focus on the unique cases led by the community learning and development team at the Glasgow Science Centre, to further justify the significance of using aforementioned tools to enable a participatory science centre approach through selected case study and content analysis of project output. By highlighting the example of programmes that empower underserved communities, it points out the advantage to embed Worldview in future ISL for shaping education and embody equity in the science centre context.