高校博物馆的公共定位及职能探析

On Public Characteristic and Public Service Functions of University Museums

高校博物馆根植于大学的文化土壤,主要服务于大学教学和科研,但与此同时它也具有公共性,即它的文化资源为社会公众所共同拥有、共同分享和共同创造,是一种公共文化机构。高校博物馆的公共性决定了它具有记录和保存人类文明、创造文化以及影响公众精神世界等公共服务职能。高校博物馆建设可通过多种途径来拓展资源,改善和优化运营模式,更好实现其公共服务职能。未来我国高校博物馆可在公共文化空间扩展、公共文化产品研发、公共服务人力资源的开发、博物馆数字资源共享等方面提升公共服务能力,赢得更广阔的发展空间。

A university museum is rooted in the cultural soil of a university.It mainly serves the university’s teaching and research,but it also is a public cultural institution with public characteristics and public service functions.Its cultural resources are owned,shared and created by the public.The public service function of university museums is mainly embodied in recording and preserving human civilization,creating culture and influencing the public spiritual world.University museums can expand resources,improve and optimize operation mode by various means,and realize its public service function better.In the future,museums of Chinese universities could improve capacities of public services by expanding public cultural space,designing public cultural products,developing human resources of public service and sharing museum digital resources in order to win a vast space for its development.