박물관의 텍스트성에 관한 탐색적 연구

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This study aims to theoretically establish the role and future positioning of museums in light of the newly announced definition of museums. It examines the social and cultural roles that museums have historically played and explores how they should define their status moving forward. To achieve this, the study examines museums from the perspectives of both readerly and writerly texts and explores the process of the meaning system of museums from their inception to the present day. Firstly, as a readerly text, a museum can be conceptualized as an institution and apparatus. This implies that museums have historically played a role in collecting, classifying, and exhibiting artifacts based on modern knowledge systems to educate and enlighten the public in order to realize the ideals of the nation-state. In this process, exhibitions enforce institutional gazes on visitors through the re-contextualization of artifacts. As a readerly text, museums induce a structured system of knowledge and encourage standardized viewing experiences. As a writerly text, museums are evolving from a curator-centric model of meaning production to a concept that explores the potential for visitor participation and active experience. This shift is reflected in the models of participatory museums and eco-museums, which aim to provide new pleasures for visitors and anticipate the plurality of meanings associated with artifacts. In this process, exhibitions can reveal various contexts or provoke debates about the meanings of artifacts, thus exploring the potential for resonance. The discussions outlined can be summarized as an examination of the changing process of museums within a diachronic flow through the concept of text. The new definition of museums can be interpreted as an attempt to positively explore the pluralistic era we live in today. Thus, this paper is addressed with the hope that museums will engage in self-reflection and re-establish their publicness.