Museums are non-profit permanent institutions serving the society. They study, collect, protect, explain and display material and intangible heritage, and are open, open and inclusive to the public. Museums promote diversity and sustainability. Museums operate and communicate in an ethical and professional way, and with the participation of the community, provide a variety of experiences for education, appreciation, deep thinking and knowledge enjoyment.
The nature of the museum determines that the museum has the characteristics of public welfare. Many museum managers regard public welfare as the burden and constraint for museums to enter the market. In fact, the public welfare of the museum can make the museum have a good public image, get better tax incentives, and make it easier for the museum to carry out public relations propaganda, and can contact and cooperate with education, environmental protection, tourism and other departments more directly.
Functions of museums
The functions of modern museums include collection, preservation, restoration, research, exhibition, education and entertainment. Morphology includes architecture, botanical gardens, zoos, aquariums, outdoor historical sites, ancient town museums, long-term antique life (folk villages), as well as audio-visual halls, libraries, performing halls, archives and so on.
The content is generally divided into art galleries, history museums, anthropology museums, natural history museums, science museums, regional museums, thematic museums and so on. The contents of museums are based on their unique styles and collections.
The function of modern museums is to promote education as an important goal and strive for public relations with the people in the community. In addition to introducing knowledge, the exhibition also aims to arouse the audience's aesthetic experience and then recognize the truth of life.