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What is Natural History\ulcorner (지역사란 무엇인가\ulcorner)

  • Choe, Jae Chun
    • The Korean Journal of Ecology
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.525-531
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    • 1995
  • The Korean government has recently announced its plan to establish the first National Museum of Natural History. However, the Korean word for natural history, jayonsa, is not a very familiar term to some academics as well as the general public. This article discusses the definition and history of natural history, describes the functions of natural history meseums, and makes suggestions to the establishment of our National Museum. Modern natural history is no longer an art of ‘stamp collecting’. It is a comprehensive scientific endeavor pursuing to enlighten the history of the planet Earth and the diversity of natural objects it contains. Natural history museum must have two museums within the museum: the outer museum for exhibition and general public education and the inner museum for research and specialist education. I hope that our National Museum of Natural History will be a place where we all get to know about Nature and thus to love her.

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Study on their Presentation Types and Exhibition Methods in National History Museum - Focused on National History Museum In Korea - (자연사박물관의 전시매체유형 및 연출기법에 관한 고찰 - 국내자연사박물관사례를 중심으로 -)

  • Lee Jong-Sook;Kim Kyung-Mi;Yoo Dong-Lim
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.15 no.1 s.54
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    • pp.131-138
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    • 2006
  • This paper compares presentation methods which are characteristic among museums of natural history in Korea. The different medium for exhibitions are divided into Specimen, Model or Panel Type Displays, Video Presentations, Sound, and Tactile Exhibits, and further classified as Fixed (A Type), Observable (B Type), or Performance Art (C Type) Displays. The museums we studied were the Seodaemun Museum of Natural History, Ewha Womans University Museum of Natural History, Seoul National Science Museum, Gyeryongsan Natural History Museum, the National Science Museum, Mokpo Natural History Museum, and the JejuDo Folklore and Natural History Museum. A study of these museums' approaches to display composition, and exhibition methods according to their exhibit types and contents, revealed the following results: The museums of natural history rely more on Fixed type displays to show information, with appropriate uses of the Observable and the Performance Art type exhibitions. Better utilization of appropriate medium is desired for display contents of Astronomy Space Earth, Minerals Rocks Geology, Animals, Plants, Insects, Prehistoric Organisms Environment, and Anthropology.

A Study on the Visual Perception Space Structure Analysis of Exhibition Contents Organization in Natural History Museum (자연사박물관 전시내용구성의 시지각적 공간구조분석에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Eun-Jung;Hong, Kwan-Seon
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.80-92
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    • 2009
  • Natural history museums preserve and manage the creatures living in each country, so they play unique roles for bio-diversity, and in fact, their roles are really instrumental for the collection, preservation, research, exhibition and education of creatures in the 21st century. Therefore, this research has the purpose to survey the status of our country's existing natural history museums, analyze their visual perception space structural characteristics, and ultimately utilize their characteristics as basic data in planning out and designing spaces of natural history museums to be established later on. As for the research scope, the research selected as research subjects 7 natural history museums that currently have composite set of open type and mixed type and have been accommodating comparatively active exhibitions since 2000 among 10 or so natural history museums in our country. Research method is that the research analyzed the exhibition spaces of 7 natural history museums by using depthmap program which can analyze space with visual graph analysis function, and analyzed the visibility among unit areas by each natural history museum integration and exhibition contents composition. In such analysis method, the research was able to quantitatively analyze the visual characteristics of exhibition space that induces and adjusts the motion of audience. Visual perception quantitative analysis as in this research will enhance exhibition design by considering the correlation between audience and exhibited items when planning out natural history museums space to be established later on.

A Plan on the Establishment of a National Museum of Natural History in South Korea (한국 국립자연사박물관 설립 방안 연구)

  • Lee, Chang-Zin;Cho, Jun-O
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.31 no.6
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    • pp.656-670
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this study was to provide a master plan for the establishment of a Korean National Museum of Natural History. The origin and development of the natural history and the natural history museum were surveyed by visiting not only Korean natural history museums but also foreign ones from 1987 to 2009. Based on the obtained information, the qualitative and quantitative status of Korean natural history museums was comparatively analyzed in terms of globalization. Results indicated that Korean natural history museums ranked more than 100th in the world, and the research, management, and publications were situated in a rudimentary stage. Particularly, the number of researchers within the area was too small, and the research environment was poor in its function and resources. In addition, the specialists on exhibition and education of the museums were too few to publish the research products and academic journal articles. For that matter, a strategy as the research-specimen management-publication-exhibition-education functions should be in place to operate before the construction of National Museum of Natural History begins.

Damage monitoring scheme of beam-type structures using time history of natural frequencies (고유진동수의 시간이력을 이용한 보 구조물 손상 모니터링 기법)

  • 박재형;김정태;류연선
    • Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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    • 2004.04a
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    • pp.41-47
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    • 2004
  • The objective of this paper is to monitor damage in beam-type structures by using time history of natural frequencies. First, numerical experiments on test beams are described, Dynamic responses of the test structures are obtained for several damage scenarios in a consequent order. Next, the time history of natural frequencies are extracted for the first four modes from the dynamic responses of the test structures. Finally, damage detection in the test structures is performed using the time-history of natural frequencies.

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An Analytic Study on the History of Natural Number Concept (자연수 개념의 역사에 관한 분석적 고찰)

  • Ko Jung-Hwa
    • Journal for History of Mathematics
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.9-22
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    • 2005
  • Natural numbers have not yet been studied adequately on the aspect of its historical development in spite of its mathematical and educational importance. This article studied the historical development of natural number concept, that is, its historical meaning in the mathematical development process and influence of cultural and social element in relation with way of understanding number. From these examinations, we identified some characteristics in the history of natural number concept.

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Environmental Learning Elements Appeared In Dialogues of Social Interactions among Small Groups of Middle School Students at the Natural History Museum: A Case Study of the Natural History Hall in Gwacheon National Science Museum (자연사박물관 관람 시 중학생 소집단의 사회적 상호작용 중 대화에 드러난 환경 학습 요소 : 국립과천과학관 내 자연사관을 사례로)

  • Jung, Won-Young;Kim, Chan-Jong
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.15-31
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    • 2010
  • This research aimed for revealing social interaction-based environmental learning elements at the natural history museum. First, we carried out a survey of the perceptual change about 'the environment' concept. It was for confirming whether environmental learning occurred in visiting. Second, we found environmental learning elements through analyzing dialogues among small group members during looking around the museum. Social interaction-based environmental learning elements were classified into five; knowledge, affection, value, skill, behaviour. Each environmental learning element included several sub-elements, so we revealed totally 9 environmental learning sub-elements. By results, we said characteristics and possibility of the natural history museum as an informal environmental educational institution. It is meaningful for extending areas of environmental education.

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A Policy Research for Establishing an Ideal National Museum of Natural History (이상적인 국립자연사박물관 건립을 위한 정책 제언 연구)

  • Lim, Jong Deock
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.36 no.7
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    • pp.674-681
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    • 2015
  • The study was designed to analyze the curatorial professional resources of natural history museums in Korea and propose a plan on how to develop human resources including younger generation of experts to be working on the future National Museum of Natural History. Many academic associations and expert groups in the field have been making multilateral efforts along with research-based studies about how to best establish a National Museum of Natural History in the past 20 years. The Korean Earth Science Society was a premier organization which has been working closely on the establishment of natural history museums and science museums through a number of academic studies and projects more than any other academic associations. This study recommends that the future National Museum of Natural History needs highly-trained specialists of museums. Therefore, the Korean Earth Science Society has to offer multiple courses that produce specialists in various fields of museums through education and training.

Environmental Education Contents Embedded in Exhibits of Natural History Museums (자연사박물관의 전시에 반영된 환경교육 내용 요소 분석)

  • Jung, Won-Young;Park, Eun-Ji;Lee, Joo-Youn;Kim, Chan-Jong;Park, Ji-Eun
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.92-106
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    • 2009
  • We assumed that natural history museums have rooms for functioning as institutions for the environmental education, especially in aspects of multi-disciplinary, informal education. So we set goals of this research as finding 1) how much environmental education contents are reflected in exhibits of natural history museums, and 2) what those characteristics in aspects of dimension, range, and topic are. First, we developed a framework for analyzing of environmental education contents. Second, we applied the framework to seven major natural history museums. As the result, environmental education contents are reflected by 69.1% totally. Especially, the 'knowledge' dimension covered mostly, and among them the range of 'elements of Ecosystem' occupied more than other ranges. With inferring our results, we suggested that characteristics of natural history museums in environmental education are followed; spatial-temporal expansion of bio-diversity concept, visualizing impacts of human activity against nature.

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