Latest ArticlesBased on predecessors’ work and deep understanding about the definition and characteristics of the digital museum, it brings up a model of the 21st digital museum. Meanwhile, according to the information technology, the digital museum is divided into three main types with different science communication methods and target visitors.
Economic and social development requires China to improve the public scientific literacy as soon as possible. science popularization is an important support to the construction of the people’s scientific quality. The current level of the scientific quality in China is low. One important reason for the low scientific quality is the insufficient number and low level of the science popularization professionals. It is necessary to speed up the development of the science popularization professionals. The number of the science popularization professionals should be added as soon as possible, while he ability of them should be enhanced. To develop the science popularization professionals, we should do the important things first, make a system of interlocking measures, and ultimately achieve the goals of forming a “better structure, higher quality” team of science popularization professionals. With this team, we can give a solid support for the construction of the overall Well-off Society.
As the predecessor of the China Association for Science and Technology, the National Association of Popularization of Science and Technology (1950-1958) occupies an important position in the history of popular science in contemporary China. There is important theoretical and practical significance for today’s innovation of China’s scientific work and building an innovation-oriented country to research its historical development, as well as the characteristics and experience of popular science work.
The science museums in US share a rich source of funding. The self-employed income, public funding (federal, state and local), and the donations (corporate, foundation or individual) ties the three major sources of funding for the museum. The recent financial crisis hit the museum of arts and humanities seriously, while the impact on science museum is not serious.
Science and technology museum (STM) is an important carrier of science popularization in China. However, as public welfare of our society, the healthy development of the STM has always been plagued by the funding problems. Recently, multi-channel input of STM has become a consensus. Scholars have investigated this issue extensively and got some typical viewpoints. This paper reviews the literature on the issues of multi-channel investment funds, summarizes the problems and corresponding solutions, and takes this as a basic reference of understanding of the issues and the related research.
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