盲区:关于博物馆研究的博物馆学

Blind Spots:Museology on Museum Research

研究被认为是博物馆的四项基本实务之一,与收集、保护和展示同等重要,并为博物馆的其他活动提供基础。然而,研究仍是博物馆实务模糊的组成部分,有时甚至被公众忽视。而且,自20世纪90年代初博物馆学重塑以来,研究一直是其中一个被忽略的话题,只有很少的成果。在本文中,笔者探寻关于博物馆研究的博物馆学线索,并找出研究文献中的空白,通过为当代博物馆学中的博物馆研究提供批判性分析的空间,探索博物馆研究在广义科学层级中的地位。由此,笔者采用认识论的方法讨论博物馆作为科学与文化交界处的公共机构这一议题。

Research is considered to be one of four fundamental museum practices,equal to collecting,preserving and display.As such,it is understood to provide the basis for many other activities carried out in museums.Yet research remains an ambiguous component of museum practice,sometimes entirely invisible to the public eye.Moreover,it remains a neglected topic in museology,with only a few publications on the subject since its disciplinary reinvention at the turn of the 1990s.In this article,it explores museological strands towards research in museums and identify gaps in the literature.By carving out a space for a critical analysis of museum research within contemporary museology,it aims is to explore the place of museum research within the wider hierarchy of science.By doing so,take an epistemological approach to museums as public institutions in the borderland between science and culture.