Palace Museum Research Articles

Research progress on wisdom museums in metaverse

中华民族拥有五千年的灿烂文化，各民族在各个历史阶段创造出的文物是中华民族繁荣昌盛的见证。博物馆作为文物收藏、文化展示的公共平台，在我国文化传承的过程中起着重要作用，随着科技的发展，当前博物馆已经步入智慧化建设时代。本文对数字化采集技术、文物真实感重建技术、虚拟结合智能交互和智慧平台建设等关键技术进行了对比分析，对诸多数字博物馆与艺术机构的案例进行了比较研究，对在元宇宙下建设智慧博物馆的发展趋势进行了展望。元宇宙技术融入智慧博物馆建设，是把握新一轮科技革命和产业变革新机遇的战略方向，有利于博物馆的数字化建设，有利于保护和发展中国优秀传统文化，对促进文化繁荣、构筑文化自信以及建设文化强国具有重要意义。;The preservation and exhibition of cultural relics have been concerned more nowadays, in which number of worldwide museums is even higher at about 55 097 and all the artefacts have been melted into. In China, total number of museums can be reached to 6 183, and it has involved 108 million state-owned movable cultural relics(sets) and 767 000 immovable cultural relics nationwide recently. Traditional museums are mainly focused on display cases, pictures, and other related audio-visual materials. Current digitization of cultural objects is beneficial to optimize traditional methods further. First, standard and consistent preservation can be introduced to alleviate natural-derived irreversible damage challenges to cultural objects. Next, it facilitates diverse ways of displaying cultural relics, which can enhance public awareness for appreciate heritage in a holistic, multi-angle, and three-dimensional manner. In recent years, the development of information technology has harnessed the emergence of many new conservation techniques and ways of displaying heritage, such as deep learning based 3D reconstruction and intelligent museums-oriented metaverse technologies of virtual reality. The digitization of museums has been launched globally in the context of digitization of collection resources since 1990s. But, the following digital museums are still challenged to deal with the problem of museum-across integrated resources. Such worldwide research projects for intelligent museums construction has been called for further. The goal of a smart museum is aimed to create a feasible intelligent ecosystem for museum-relevant domains. We review global-contextual technologies, in which four category of such key technologies in relevance to digital acquisition, heritage realism reconstruction, virtual-intelligent-integrated interaction, and smart platform construction. For digital acquisition of cultural relics, we illustrate and analyze the two most common types of methods in related to 3D scanning and close-up photogrammetry. For the realistic reconstruction technology of cultural relics, geometric processing and deep learning-based methods are focused on in terms of 3D reconstruction model analysis. For virtual-intelligent-integrated interaction, a variety of interaction methods are demonstrated in related to such aspects of multimodality, gesture, and handling. For the construction of smart platforms, we summarize some emerging technologies, and the final artistic results are described and achieved. The case study analysis is based on such famous multination museums of the Louvre Museum in France, the Hermitage Museum in Russia, the Palace Museum in Beijing and other related world-renowned museums. We sort out that the commonly-used construction process of smart museums for cultural relics through collection of digital information, three-dimensional reconstruction, and the integration of multiple virtual interaction. The consensus is focused on improving conservation measures and inherit culture. At the same time, potential metaverse technology can be used to build metaverse museum platforms further. Finally, modernizing museums analysis is focused on and its relevant tools and technologies has been focused on metaverse-related technologies. In the future, such emerging metaverse technologies can be used to predicted and integrated into the construction of smart museums as well like blockchain technology, computing and storage, artificial intelligence, and brain-computer Interface. It is focused on the integrated and intelligent construction of museums, and more ultimate and immersive experience can be melted into visitors experiences. To sum up, to promote the development and preservation of global civilization, metaverse technology-integrated intelligent museums are required for its integrated construction in relevance to human cognitive abilities and behavioral patterns.

Research on the Revitalization of Cultural Heritage in the Perspective of Cultural Creativity: Reinvention of the IP of the Forbidden City

The communication mode of Internet new media contributes to the vigorous development of the cultural IP ecosystem. Guided by the concept of cultural IP, the Palace Museum develops a series of cultural and creative products to realize the inheritance, creative transformation, and modern expression of traditional culture, to enhance the influence and appeal of the Palace Museum culture. Taking the cultural and creative works of the Forbidden City as the case study object, this paper expounds on the common methods of creative interpretation and display of heritage cultural symbols in the contemporary context by analyzing four aspects of the cultural and creative works of the Forbidden City: abstract extraction of symbols, interactive narration, the awakening of cultural memory and integration of ancient and modern cultures. Based on the three characteristics of the main body, intermediary, and channel of cross-media communication of the cultural IP of the Forbidden City in the new era, this paper explores the practical path of "living" inheritance and communication of cultural heritage and provides ideas and references for the design of cultural and creative products of historical museums.

Determining the experience of museum visitors by text mining: example of Topkapi Palace museum

Determining the experience of museum visitors by text mining: example of Topkapi Palace museum

Characteristics & Application Analysis of Digital Experience Display Design

The display design of digital experience starts from the fundamental demand of display design development, combined with digital display technology, to bring a new energy to display design. Digital experience display design is a combination of rational and emotional thinking. This article analyzes the characteristics and expression techniques of digital experience display design, and explores the ways and means of digital experience display design. Taking the Forbidden City of Beijing in "Beyond Time and Space" as an example, it explains that more experiences should be put into the process of display design, such as scene production, atmosphere creation, interaction methods, scheduling between display space environment, and the use of narrative methods. In a digital experiential display environment, comprehensive control of music, ambient sound, and vocals can be achieved, using the ambient sound brought by the audio system to create an immersive sound environment for the audience, and transmitting richer information through sound. Technological innovation has brought full surround stereo sound field, Dolby Atmos and reasonable broadcast scheme design. Taking the "Panoramic Palace Museum" - Taihe Hall as an example, it is demonstrated that all the displayed content and route are arranged at the most central position of the visual, and unnecessary content such as decorations around are all cleared. This display method effectively guides the audience's visual center towards the exhibits. By utilizing experiential digital display methods and utilizing digital spatial display technology, new ideas for display design are broadened, interest in digital display spaces is enhanced, and the public and more designers are encouraged to participate in digital display design.

韩·中参与式博物馆青少年文化艺术 教育项目比较研究 : 以韩国国立中央博物馆和中国故宫博物馆为中心

최근 참여적 박물관 개념이 확산되고 있는 가운데 청소년들의 예술적 소양을 함 양하기 위한 박물관의 교육기능이 강조되고 있다. 이에 본 연구는 한·중 박물관의 참여적 교육프로그램을 비교함으로써 개선 및 발전방안을 도출하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 한국 국립중앙박물관과 중국 고궁박물 관과의 청소년 교육프로그램을 Nina Simon(2010)이 참여적 박물관의 요소로 제시한 가상공간화, 현실감, 개인화, 상호작용성 등 네 가지 관점에서 비교 분석하였다. 연구 결과, 가상공간화 측면에서 두 박물관 모두 VR 기술을 통해 3D가상 모델링 기능을 활용해 가상 박물관을 구축하고 있다. 그러나 중국 고궁박물관은 VR에 집 중한 활용교육에 촛점을 둔다면, 한국 국립중앙박물관은 VR뿐 아니라 인공지능, 틸트 브러시, 뮤지엄 뷰 등 다양한 기술을 활용한다는 점에서 차이가 있었다. 현실 감 측면에서는 두 곳 모두 교육 수용자의 몰입을 이끌어내기 위해 놀이 요소를 적 극적으로 차용한다. 그러나 중국 고궁박물관은 온라인 앱에 의존하는 경향이 강한 반면, 한국 국립중앙박물관은 학교 수업과 연계해 박물관 공간을 적극적으로 활용 하고 있다. 개인화 측면에서 중국고궁박물관은 특히 청각장애 청소년을 위한 프로 그램을 강조한 반면, 한국 국립중앙박물관은 미래 직업에 대한 전문지식을 갖춘 청 소년 육성 프로그램을 집중 운영하고 있었다. 마지막으로 상호작용 측면에서 중국 고궁박물관은 음악 창작대회를 개최하여 청소년들로 하여금 창작 잠재력을 자극하 고 전통문화 계승에 대한 관심을 환기하는 반면, 한국 국립중앙박물관은 게임적 요 소를 도입한 체험을 통해 팀원들과의 교류 능력을 향상하도록 한다. 본 연구가 한국과 중국 양국의 박물관 문화예술 교육 발전에 기여할 수 있기를 기대한다.

한국 근현대 자격루 연구사 검토

We have briefly looked at the history of the study of Jagyeongnu (自擊漏, automatic striking clepsydra) in the modern and contemporary period of Korea so far. The study of Jagyeongnu is divided into before and after as of 1980. Prior to 1980, Hong Yi-seop and Jeon Sang-woon conducted basic research. During the Japanese colonial period, Hong Yi-seop studied Jagyeongnu as a “pride of the nation” in a nationalistic perspective. And after liberation, Jeon Sang-woon tried to reveal “Korean creativity” based on thorough literature research. Research on the restoration of Jagyeongnu was carried out in the 1980s. It took about 30 years to restore and install Jagyeongnu at the National Palace Museum in November 2007. This process is divided into three periods. The first (1980-87) was a collaborative research period between academia and the government that sympathized with the need for research and restoration of Korean scientific and cultural properties in the early and mid-1980s. The second (1988-96) was a propulsion period for the restoration of Jagyeongnu, which was promoted as part of the Gyeongbokgung Palace restoration project. The third period (1997-2007) was a restoration installation period in the National Palace Museum of Korea.

Study on Government Managed Gardens in Public Buildings of Kathmandu Valley

An area embellished with ornamental plants near the city area and office can give a pleasurable, picturesque and naturalistic effect which creates a refreshing and conducive working environment for both staff and service seekers. A study was carried out to elucidate the existing situation of the government managed gardens in public buildings located in the Kathmandu valley. The gardens were selected purposively and the study was made based on the number of plant species, composition of plants, styles of gardening, maintenance of garden and appreciation of the garden. The maintenance and the appreciation of gardens were evaluated by the Likert scale (1-4). The abundance of tree was higher followed by herbaceous perennial, herbaceous annual, shrub, cacti and succulent. The garden of Narayanhiti Palace Museum was found to be dominant in tree, shrub and herbaceous perennial while the Garden of Singha Durbar and Supreme Court was found to be dominant in herbaceous annual. The frequency of Thuja orientalis (tree), Bougainvillea spp (shrub), Cuphea hyssopifolia (herbaceous perennial), Calendula officinalis (herbaceous annual) and Petunia hybrida (herbaceous annual) were higher. This study shows that formal gardens (66.66%) dominated informal gardens (33.34%). It was found that the maintenance and the overall appreciation of gardens were fair to good. The gardens need improvements in various aspects to make them artistic and beautiful.

What is the gap between curator’s plan and visitors’ perception of the palace museum?

ABSTRACT The Palace Museum, well known as the Forbidden City, is one of the most splendid and valuable cultural treasures of China and a World Cultural Heritage. During the past 10 years many improvements and changes have been made in the Palace Museum, however, it is more important to know whether and to which extent visitors are satisfied with their experience. Although prior research has discussed the strategic management of the curator, little is done to combine tourists’ perception with the curator’s performance. To address this issue, a mixed method is applied to compare the planned action from the leader’s perspective and the online review from tourists’ comments, by analyzing the operation of Shan from 2012 to 2019 and online reviews of tourists from three major Chinese tourism websites. This research is innovative insofar as it provides a new theoretic framework to evaluate the curator’s performance.

Historic Headgears of Asantehene and their Symbolisms: The Case of Manhyia Palace Museum

Artifacts are immensely useful to scholars who want to learn about a culture. When an artifact is conserved to retain its current condition, it preserves the truth of the historical story for generations to come. The Manhyia Palace Museum of Kumasi Metropolis (in Ghana) is one of the places where historical artifacts of the Ashantis (also known as the Asantes) have been preserved. However, some of the names of these artifacts remain unknown to the general public. Just as many people are ignorant about the symbolic meanings of these artifacts, the users and the occasions for utilizing such artifacts have not been documented. In light of these gaps, this study seeks to unearth the historical headgears of Asantehene. Relying principally on the qualitative research methods, the ethnographic research design was employed to gather data from four (4) sub-chiefs of Kumasi and two (2) curators of the Manhyia Palace Museum, who were purposively selected. In-depth interviews and observation were used to solicit data from the respondents. The findings of the research revealed some significance of the headgear and its physical features. Based on the conclusion, recommendations such as methods of preserving such historical artefacts have been suggested.

Research on the Artistic Construction of Luxury Brands from the Perspective of Brand Culture Communication

With the rejuvenation and diversification of the luxury market, luxury brands face the challenge of maintaining economic growth while considering the challenges of brand image building and customer loyalty. There is growing evidence that the younger generation of customers will gradually become the protagonists of the luxury market. One of the customer journeys they care most about is matching personal and brand values and the consumption experience. From this perspective, this article uses case studies, comparative studies, and literature research, taking Cartier Beyond Boundaries - Cartier Palace Museum Crafts and Restoration Special Exhibition as the main case. By comparing with other luxury brands’ art exhibitions in Asia, Analyze and study why contemporary luxury brands have increased their artistic construction and the relationship between luxury brand curatorial activities in the Asian market. By implementing the recommendations in this paper, Cartier can create a digital environment within the experience of its artistic curatorial events, facilitating interaction with their products, stories, and artworks.

Cats in Palace Museum: A narrative of cultural heritage and empathy of youth.

While research in heritage tourism tends to focus on cultural and anthropogenic motivations and drivers, this paper seeks to examine how social-media narration amidst a broader backdrop context in Chinese mass culture creates, perpetuates, and reinforce feline-focused narratives and practices among social media young followers. Drawing on text and image-based analyses of postings of cat sightings within the official Palace Museum account on a key Chinese microblog, this study reveals the application of three vital narrative strategies at work and corresponding empathic responses: ambassadorial, bounded, and broadcast. The Palace Museum has achieved an enhancement of interaction and emotional exchange between the heritage of Palace Museum and youths and generated a process from attention to emotional engagement and eventually to emotional identification on the part of youths in their attitude toward the heritage of Palace Museum through the workings of three key narrative strategies on Chinese social media. In doing so, this research illuminates the potential of social media-based narratives and charismatic animals in the revitalization of cultural heritage sites and the contributions of setting narrative strategies in engaging the younger audiences while also revitalizing the cultural heritage of the Palace Museum.

Museums in the COVID-19 pandemic: the impact of economic stimulus policy and market strategy of the national palace museums in Taiwan

ABSTRACT This research examines the impact of the voucher-based economic stimulus policy and market strategy on museum traffic during the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan. We apply a univariate time-series model (ARMAX) to daily-visit data of the National Palace Museums in Taiwan during 2016–2021, showing results that the consumption voucher program effectively did boost the number of visitors amid overall declines in tourists due to the lockdown. A comparison among the National Palace Museum branches further reveals that holding more outdoor art events by one branch induced a more potent effect of the stimulus policy. The findings suggest that outdoor art events can be a helpful strategy for museums, which traditionally rely on indoor art exhibitions, to mitigate the impact of a pandemic.

Passenger Flow Prediction of Scenic Spots in Jilin Province Based on Convolutional Neural Network and Improved Quantile Regression Long Short-Term Memory Network

Passenger flow is an important benchmark for measuring tourism benefits, and accurate tourism passenger flow prediction is of great significance to the government and related tourism enterprises and can promote the sustainable development of China’s tourism industry. For daily passenger flow time series data, a passenger flow forecasting method based on convolutional neural network (CNN) and improved quantile regression long short-term memory network (QRLSTM), denoted as CNN-IQRLSTM, is proposed with reconstructed correlation features and in the form of sliding windows as inputs. First, four discrete variables such as whether the day is a weekend and holiday are created by time; then, a sliding window of width 42 is used to pass the passenger flow data into the network sequentially; finally, the loss function of the sparse Laplacian improved QRLSTM is introduced for passenger flow prediction, and the point prediction and interval prediction results under different quartiles are obtained. The application of quantile regression captures the overall picture of the data, enhances the robustness, fit, predictive power and nonlinear processing capability of neural networks, and fills the gap between quantile regression and neural network methods in the field of passenger flow prediction. CNN can effectively handle complex input data, and the improved nonlinear QR model can provide passenger flow quantile prediction information. The method is applied to the tourism traffic prediction of four 5A scenic spots in Jilin Province, and the effectiveness of the method is verified. The results show that the method proposed in this paper fits best in point prediction and has higher prediction accuracy. The MAPE of the Changbai Mountain dataset was 0.07, the MAPE of the puppet palace museum dataset was 0.05, the fit of the Sculpture Park dataset reached 93%, and the fit of the net moon lake dataset was as high as 99%. Meanwhile, the interval prediction results show that the method has a larger interval coverage as well as a smaller interval average width, which improves the prediction efficiency. In 95% of the interval predictions, the interval coverage of Changbai Mountain data is 99% and the interval average width is 0.49. It is a good reference value for the management of different scenic spots.

The rebellion of Şahin Giray Sultan (1746–1747)

Research objectives: This study aims to analyze the reasons, development, and consequences of Şahin Giray Sultan’s Rebellion in the history of the Crimean Khanate, based on data retrieved from Ottoman archival sources. Research materials: The main sources of data for this research are documents held in the Archive of the Topkapı Palace Museum and the Department of Ottoman Archives of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey Directorate of State. These documents have been compared with the Ottoman-Tatar chronicles of the period (İzzi Tarihi, Çelebî Akay Tarihi, Tarih-i Said Giray Sultan). Results and novelty of the research: The most detailed evaluation of the rebellion of Şahin Giray Sultan can be found in Smirnov’s book on the Crimean Khanate which echoes the information given in the Ottoman chronicle, İzzi Tarihi. In the present study, Topkapı Palace Museum Archive documents numbered TSMA-E 408-55, TSMA-E 569-58, and TSMA-E 751-49, as well as the Mühimme Defters and Kalebend Defters held by the Department of Ottoman Archives of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey Directorate of State Archives, are compared with statements in different sources. In the light of these documents, the rise and progress of the rebellion headed by Şahin Giray Sultan are subjected to a new evaluation. Documents considered important and providing details of the life of Şahin Giray Sultan and the course of the rebellion have been transliterated and presented for the use of researchers. The Noghays residing in the Bucak region constituted the social base of the Şahin Giray rebellion. The rebellion broke out due to the Porte’s desire to deploy Tatar forces on the Iranian front, the increasing centralization efforts of the Ottoman Empire on the Russian-Polish and Ukrainian borders, and the pressure put on Tatar society for the return of Russian captives of 1736-39 War. The rebellion broke out prematurely after the Porte and Selim Giray Khan conspired to neutralize Şahin Giray Sultan. The extreme measures taken by the Ottoman Empire and the Crimean Khanate prevented the revolt from spreading, and the rebels led by the Şahin Giray Sultan were easily defeated, thus causing the suppression of the rebellion.

The impact of numinosity on the preservation of selected artefacts in the Manhyia Palace Museum, Ghana

The Manhyia Palace Museum in Kumasi, Ghana is popular for its outstanding exhibition of authentic cultural artefacts. However, these artefacts have always been associated with the beliefs, spirituality and philosophy of the Ashanti people and they are numinous or sacred objects venerated by both the museum's staff and its visitors. This article explores the phenomenon of numinosity surrounding selected objects in the collections and the impact this has on their preservation. It uses qualitative tools to explore case studies, including their detailed study, and interviews with people knowledgeable about their use and sacred status. A major finding the authors report is that numinous artefacts in the museum were not created as aesthetic objects but primarily for religious and utilitarian purposes that correlate with the devotion of the people involved. Their numinosity was also found to contribute to their preservation by protecting them from handling and use by visitors and museum personnel. The article is offered as a contribution to the literature both to stimulate similar research and widen the interests of those involved in the care of cultural heritage by situating such artefacts in cultural traditions that are arguably left largely outside the field of museology and yet are still to be fully explored in most parts of Africa.

A New Look at Sokolluzade Hasan Paşa’s Illustrated Universal History

This article revisits a universal history written in the late sixteenth century for the governor of Baghdad Sokolluzade Hasan Paşa (d. 1602) in light of a new- ly-discovered source that provides the missing concluding section of this universal history. This concluding section (Bibliothèque nationale de France Supplément turc 1322), which was announced in the index but not completed in the extant presen- tation copies (Topkapı Palace Museum Library H. 1369 and H. 1230), reinforces the idea of Sokolluzade Hasan Paşa’s imperial claims at the same time as it highlights the Baghdadi tenor of the work, as it was written in Baghdad by an author who be- longed to the governor’s household. However, the Paris manuscript presents no mere conclusion or continuation of a universal history. It is rather akin to a compilation (mecmuʿa) that juxtaposes sections from this universal history with sections from Za- kariya al-Qazwini’s (d. 1283) ʿAjāʾib al-Makhlūqāt wa Gharāʾib al-Mawjūdāt, thus recontextualizing this late-sixteenth-century universal history.

The Qianlong Emperor's order: scientific analysis helps find French painted enamel among Palace Museum collections

Painted enamel holds special significance in the study of the history of Chinese ceramic and glass. Painted enamel also represents interesting evidence of cultural communication between China and European countries. In the past, studies on painted enamel have mainly focused on archival research. Although modern scientific techniques have complemented research on enameled artifacts, the quality of the samples has usually been inferior. This study combines scientific analysis and archival work to explore four similar pots from the Palace Museum collection, along with the specific documentation information attached to them. Raman spectra, XRF and CT scanning were applied to compare the four pots. Results show that one of the pots is made of gold and use cassiterite and Naples yellow as opacifier and pigments, this pot bears the hidden hallmarks of a Parisian goldsmith, providing direct evidence that the pot was made in France in 1783. The other pots are proven to have been made in China, which are made of copper gilded with gold and use lead arsenate and lead tin yellow as opacifier and pigments. This work reveals a previously unnoticed route by which enamel artifacts reached the Chinese court.

The Inheritance and Innovation Value of Cultural and Creative Products of the Palace Museum in Beijing

This study examined the added value of traditional cultural and creative products as part of broader research on promoting cultural exchanges between China and the West through cultural and creative products. In the context of global economic integration, cultural and creative industries (CCIs) have attracted much attention since their emergence. The development of CCIs aims to promote the revival of traditional culture. The researchers took the CCI project of the Palace Museum in Beijing as a research object and conducted literature studies and case studies to understand the values of cultural and creative products, with traditional culture as the theme. The findings indicated that traditional cultural creative products played an essential role in inheriting and promoting the innovative and sustainable development of traditional culture. Moreover, these have the added value of making traditional culture serve modern life.
 Keywords: cultural and creative industries, cultural and creative products, traditional cultural, Palace Museum in Beijing, value

The impact of social media marketing activities in the museum industry

PurposeThe social media expands the scope of museum marketing. Through the social media marketing, visitors get a rich and colorful visual experience, and the museum can quickly and effectively convey various information to visitors. At present, the research on social media in the museum industry mainly focuses on the level of technology use, while the research on the marketing application of social media is relatively scarce, especially from the empirical perspective. This study constructs a conceptual model to identify the impact of SMMAs on visitor experience in the context of the museum industry through the empirical analysis.Design/methodology/approachA survey is conducted with a total of 538 visitors who follow the fan page of the Palace Museum Weibo. The collected data are analyzed via structural equation modeling.FindingsThe results show that SMMAs have significant effects on social presence and social support, which in turn significantly affect flow state. Moreover, the results demonstrate that social presence and social support partially mediates the relationships between SMMAs and flow state.Originality/valueThe contribution of this study is twofold. First, from a theoretical perspective, it offers new insights into the conceptualization of social media marketing. Second, from a pragmatic perspective, the results are helpful to guide museums how to carry out social media marketing activities.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/OIR-12-2020-0564

Research on the Transformation of Amart Museums under the Internet Thinking: A Case Study on the Palace Museum

With the development of information and Internet technology, traditional museums have long followed the trend of integrating innovative technological elements into the changed museums. The museums must seize the opportunity of the trend transforming into smart museums, the key is to grasp the characteristics and laws of the Internet era, and use Internet thinking to explore the future development path. However, there are few studies on Internet thinking among the existing results. On the other hand, most of the relevant actual case studies still focus on the micro-level, which has obvious limitations. This paper will start from the current situation and trend, focus on the Palace Museum as a case study object, and discuss the problems and characteristics, to put forward the thinking about the development of smart museums in four aspects to explore the optimal path of transformation for smart museums.