Summary The community museums in northern Thailand have different patterns: ethnicity museums and local history museums. 4 Tai Khoan Museum at San Kang Pla Temple, Chiang Mai The situation of community museums in northern Thailand. The main purpose of the museum is to present the history of the area and the community.
Interactive Museum Activities That Provide Venues for Innovation: Case Studies
Since its inception, the Lake Biwa Museum has carefully avoided using expressions of value judgment regarding a "better coexistence relationship between people and lakes". Nunotani (2014) explained the reason as follows: "Social problems arise depending on the social situations of the era and of course, their evaluations change even in successive periods. The Lake Biwa Museum devised a new system to improve visitor experiences when it opened in 1996. An effective way to carry out such mediation is to listen to visitors' experiences in relation to the exhibition context (Fig. 1.
Unfortunately, the Lake Biwa Museum has not organized such a workshop, but a series of annual workshops with similar objectives have been organized by the Mother Lake Forum, founded in 2012. Several actors involved in the Lake Biwa watershed are discussing possible measures to to accomplish this. a better future for the lake. They want to be a place to find mutually different or common concepts and to think about what each of the participants can do for the lake (http://mlf.shiga.jp/biwacomi.
This practice seems to be getting better year by year and they are thus way ahead of the Lake Biwa Museum. The concepts, methods and results of the "Biwa-Comi meetings" need to be developed critically and new interactive museum activities that are not based on predetermined public policies should be constructed.
Based on these preliminary results, Yukiko Kada, who was the principal investigator of the research project mentioned above, was convinced that fish such as round crucian carp could still reproduce and grow in rice fields if the fields were accessible. Kada convinced Shiga Prefecture Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries officials to undertake a new official project to improve fish reproduction in rice fields. In assessing the role of the Lake Biwa Museum in this important social innovation, three important points must be noted.
Second, it appears that the cooperative response of the community and local authorities to the program proposed by the museum was based on rich social capital (Tanaka 2006. Third, the museum researchers did not contribute more than the original idea and a related background) knowledge in the first years of the project Technical development took place mainly at other research institutions, policy formulation and implementation were handled by officials from the prefectural Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, and practice was carried out by local communities (Tanaka 2006.
In this case, the orientation of museum studies, more towards posing problems than solving problems, probably helped to establish and maintain this collaboration. In addition, some museum researchers often provided support as lecturers or interpreters to public viewing programs.
It is hoped that such collaborative and interactive activities, including the Lake Biwa Museum among the actors, will produce further social innovations that bring a "better coexistence relationship between people and lakes" closer to fruition. This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ ), which permits any noncommercial use, duplication, adaptation, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give proper credit to the original author(s) and source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate whether changes have been made. -shakai de no hakubutsukan riyo no jissen-teki tenkai no kanousei—Biwako- Hakubutsukan e no raikan ga kenmin ni motarasu hakubutsukan-image kara nani wo tenbo dekiru no ka [Possibility of practical development of museum use in local areas—What can put into perspective based on images of Lake Biwa Museum visitors].
『博物館とその場所の実践的評価 –びわこ博物館の経済的・文化的・社会的評価の研究』びわ湖博物館編』なぜ田植えの時期になると、びわ湖のコイ科の魚が田んぼに上がってくるのでしょうか。
Decline of the emergent macrocycle zone along the eastern shore of Laka Biwa's South Basin. Nursery site for round crucian carp, Carassius auratus grandoculis, in paddy fields around Lake Biwa.
Museums as Hubs for Disaster Recovery and Rebuilding Communities
The Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution in Kobe is a facility that introduces destruction and activities to the rescue and recovery process from the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake of 1995. There are some 500,000 visitors a year, and it's not just an exhibition space, but also a research institution in the field of disaster and disaster prevention, which organizes training programs mainly aimed at government officials responsible for disaster prevention. Located in the town of Yuasa in Wakayama Prefecture, the Inamura-no-Hi no Yakata (Fire of Rice Sheaves Mansion) is a facility that includes the neighboring Tsunami Educational Center and houses the old home of Goryou Hamaguchi, the hero in the story of the 'Rice Sheaf Fire'.
The Unzen Disaster Memorial Hall on the Shimabara Peninsula in Nagasaki Prefecture serves as a volcano-related facility. These facilities are large, specialized disaster-related museums, and not only do they have exhibits about past disasters, they are also places where people can learn about possible future disaster prevention and mitigation measures. The common thread is that the goal of these facilities is not only to represent past disasters, but also to use lessons learned from disasters for future disaster prevention and mitigation.
In addition to preserving and disseminating memories and records of the disaster, transferring lessons learned from the experience of the disaster, and raising awareness of disaster prevention and reduction, the Corridor involved local people in its establishment and management of the facilities. positioned to help rebuild the lives of those people, and assist in the revitalization and development of communities located in intermediate areas between plains and mountains that were severely damaged by the earthquake. I will introduce here the meaning of involving the local people in the process and management of the facilities that represent and reflect their own experiences.
Outline of the Chuetsu Earthquake Memorial Corridor
The Nagaoka Earthquake Disaster Archive Center - Kiokumirai (Memories for the Future) (Fig. 2) serves as the gateway to the Chuetsu Earthquake Memorial Corridor and is located as the core of the corridor. The Kizuna (Bonds/Ties) Center in Kawaguchi (Fig. 4) plays the role of revealing connections that were made between people (between neighbors, between residents and outsiders, etc.) as a result of the disaster. It focuses not only on past connections that were made at the time of the earthquake, but also relationships that gradually continue to develop.
Orataru (My/Our place) (Figure 5) plays the role of telling the story of the history, culture and restoration of the village. While talking about life in the village, the voices of the locals recount the route they took back to Yamakoshi and. Kogomo Memorial Park (Figure 7) was established as a “memory park” located near a village that was submerged due to the blockage of the river channel by the largest landslide of the Chuetsu earthquake.
The epicenter of the Chuetsu Earthquake Memorial Park (Fig. 8) was created as a "startup park" located at the site of the epicenter of the Chuetsu earthquake. As an event to mark the first anniversary of the earthquake, local residents and other participants, including myself, located the epicenter of the earthquake using GPS technology.
Resident-Led Initiatives
A distinctive feature of the Niigata Chuetsu earthquake was that it struck mountainous areas where depopulation and aging of the population had already worsened. Due to the earthquake, mountains crumbled, sediment blocked roads and became embedded in rice fields and reservoirs, and in some cases the terraced rice fields and ponds themselves collapsed. The Chuetsu region is an area prone to heavy snowfall and is also an area prone to landslides.
Despite the harsh environment, Koshihikari brand rice is produced in terraced rice fields created on sloping surfaces formed by landslides, and buyers from countries such as China, America and Europe come to the Chuetsu region looking for Japanese carp. The existing decline and aging population was actually worsened by this earthquake, which is why Niigata Prefecture adopted "getting a new vitality full of stability" as one of the pillars in their reconstruction plans. In mountainous regions where population decline and aging were further exacerbated by the earthquake, reconstruction was carried out by first rebuilding the lives of individuals (rebuilding houses and restoring farmland) and then rebuilding regional communities.
In order to rebuild communities, in addition to restoring infrastructure, shrines and community centers that were the foundations of society were repaired and rebuilt, revitalization events were held, and plans for autonomous reconstruction were developed and implemented. Furthermore, exchange programs with outside groups were actively carried out, and community enterprises were born, such as farm restaurants and inns run jointly by the local community.
It is a land that has nurtured its own unique culture such as bull fighting, fire recycling and Bon festival dances that differ slightly from each village. However, it was feared that villages in the earthquake-affected mountainous regions would further collapse, becoming uninhabitable and residents "coming down the mountain" to live in urban areas. The Niigata Chuetsu Earthquake Reconstruction Fund established in 2005 is being used as a source of funds for facility development.
The Reconstruction Fund is being established within the framework of a government reconstruction initiative and has been set up with the aim of promoting long-term and flexible aid and self-support for victims and reconstruction measures in affected areas, and reviving the affected areas. wake up. to attractive locations. Because the memorial facilities were seen as something that would contribute to future disaster relief by recording and disseminating the process of rebuilding lives, as a tool to express gratitude for the support received from around the country, and as something that was indispensable for the reconstruction of affected areas. The Reconstruction Fund contributed to the development costs of the memorial facilities. The Chuetsu Organization for a Safe and Secure Society acted as a coordinator for connecting support groups, such as the Chuetsu Reconstruction Citizens.
Councils and specialized institutions such as libraries and residents of affected areas, and it is believed that these connections are also used in the management of the memorial facilities.
