民国时期的福建省立科学馆

An Analysis of Fujian Provincial Science Museum during the Republic of China

福建省立科学馆作为较早创办的科学馆之一,被称为近代中国最具特色的科学馆,以"普及民众科学知识,指导学校教育"为宗旨。科学馆通过举办科学演讲、发行科学常识手册、放映科普类影片等途径,致力于推进民众教育事业的发展。文章以民国时期福建省立科学馆的创立过程、组织机构及其地位影响为主要脉络,深入研究了民国期间福建省立科学馆开展的各项科学教育活动,并对科学馆的民众教育功能做了进一步的分析和探究。

Fujian Science Museum, known as the most distinctive and featured science museum in modern China,is one of those established during the earlier period. Its overarching aim is to popularize scientific knowledge for the people,and provide guidance for the school education. The Fujian Science Museum actively devotes itself to promoting the development of popular education through a host of methods such as scientific speech,handbooks or movies of scientific knowledge,and the like. The paper,mainly focusing on an analysis of construction process,organizational structure and significance of Fujian Provincial Science Museum,expounds on various scientific educational activities carried out by the Republic Fujian Science Museum,and makes a further discussion and research on the popular science education function of science museum.