Museums & Communities
In recent years, the "museum + community" model has become a hot topic in the museum world. "Museum + Community" is to establish a direct connection between the museum and community residents, so that the museum can go out, so that the cultural relics and cultural knowledge hidden in the museum can be savored at the doorstep, and promote the further extension and coverage of the museum's public services.
It is in this context that the Wu Culture Museum has launched the "Wu Bo Says" volunteer classroom into the grassroots (community) project, bringing Wu Bo's cultural relics knowledge and Wu culture and history out of the museum, into many communities, enterprises, schools and other grassroots units, and exerting greater museum power from an open perspective.
On the morning of December 11, 2023, in the early winter season when the cold wave came, the lecture hall of Xinghai Primary School in Suzhou Industrial Park was very lively. The "Wu Bo Says" volunteer class of the Wu Culture Museum was invited to walk here with the youth course "Fantastic Beasts in National Treasures".
Activity reviewXinghai Primary School was founded in 2000. After more than 10 years of development, it has become a school with both tradition and modernity, inheritance and innovation, and its reputation is growing. More than 600 students from the 4th grade of Xinghai Primary School came to participate in the listening, and the children of this age are at a lively and curious age, from the beginning of stepping into the auditorium, chattering, looking around, to gradually quieting down, listening carefully, and then deeply engaged in the "plot", following the guidance of the lecturer group Shi Hui, and plunging into the wonderful world of finding national treasures.
Students talk about what kind of animals are the prototypes of these cultural relics”
What does the animal face pattern look like on the bronze?”
What should I pay attention to when visiting a museum?”
What do you think about the artifacts in the museum?”
Teacher Shi Hui of the lecturer group combined rich and vivid courseware, threw one question after another to the students who are good at thinking and seeking knowledge, and led everyone step by step, from the black-clothed pottery turtle-shaped pot of the Chenghu site in the Liangzhu period, the celadon sheep-shaped socket of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, to the hidden green lion elephant candlestick of the Yuan Dynasty, the students learned about the bronze dragon ornament in the Spring and Autumn Period, the animal face ornament in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and in the heated discussion and questioning, in the form of interactive answers, inspired the children to summarize by themselves What etiquette should be paid attention to when visiting a museum" and "What are the aspects to start with the scientific understanding of the cultural relics in the museum". Although the amount of information is huge, under the guidance of the volunteer teachers, in just 50 minutes, the children unknowingly mastered a large number of basic knowledge of cultural relics.
One minute on stage, ten years off stage. In order to prepare for this special popular science course, the members of the "lecturer group" have spent a lot of effort, a week in advance to prepare for the class, according to the children's lively and active characteristics, carefully adjust the production of ppt, each of which is the most concise and clear cultural relics that highlight the theme, no stereotyped words, no esoteric theories, and some are the students are happy to accept the painting, the form of communication and interaction to get positive feedback from the students. By the end of the course, the quiz gifts carefully prepared by Mr. Shi were distributed, and the children surrounded Mr. Shi to ask this and that, scrambling to stamp and take pictures with Mr. Shi, and reluctantly agreed with Mr. Shi to come back next time.
This event is also a useful attempt by Wu Bo to popularize Wu culture and cultural knowledge. More and more audience groups are joining, and different audience groups also have different content needs, and looking for different forms and contents to achieve the purpose of adapting to the crowd is now the goal that Wu Bo said that the volunteer teachers of the lecturer group are trying to explore. It is approaching the end of the year, and the new year is approaching, and there is a new starting point and a new goal waiting to set sail.
Wu Bo said, "The volunteer classroom is a volunteer service brand activity created by the Wu Culture Museum, with the core of "protecting, inheriting and promoting Wu culture". As a form of social education in the museum, the volunteer classroom adopts the mode of combining teaching in the museum and preaching outside the museum, makes full use of the rich historical and cultural resources of the museum, and opens a series of courses with distinctive cultural characteristics of Wudi.
Wu Bo said, "The members of the lecturer group are selected by a number of senior outstanding Wu Bo volunteers, and strive to let the residents in Wu know more about the land they live in, identify with and love the splendid culture of Wu more, and discover more and more guardians, promoters and inheritors of Wu culture."