How regional museums form a museum cluster and forge its identity： Take7 Shanghai Science ＆ Technology Museum as an example

At present, there are many cases of museum clusters around the world, such as Smithsonian Insti- tution, the Guggenheim Museums and Foundation, Science Museums Group, National Museum Liverpool and so on. Through the analysis, we found that they form clusters in different ways, but they are for the same pur- pose, which is to provide multiple services for the public from the different cultural environment, and to strengthen the local cultural expression and transmission. Shanghai Science ＆ Technology Museum is a large-scale comprehensive museum which contains three venues： a science and technology museum, a natu- ral history museum and a planetarium. Through learns the experience of the international cases for museum clusters, also explore itself museum cluster road to meet the local cultural environment.