Museum : Activities and Programs to Support Environmental Education and Its Role as Information Center

随着2天周末越来越被社会所接受，博物馆被期望扮演社会教育机构的角色。此外，随着人们对环境教育重要性的认识越来越明显，人们期望博物馆在环境教育中发挥作用。本研究的主要内容包括：1、博物馆环境教育内容与方法的分析。(1)对世界各地这一主题的现状进行了研究和分析。(2)根据上述研究结果，就如何在博物馆中进行实际的环境教育内容、方法和受众进行了讨论。(3)邀请美国博物馆的环境教育工作者参加研讨会和讲习班。(4)开发了一个模块式的教育材料，将用于实际的教育。(5)向博物馆参观者进行调查，了解他们对博物馆环境教育的期望。(6)在博物馆举办了环境教育教师研讨会，并研究了影响，2分析了开发以博物馆为中心的环境教育支持信息系统的可能性及其有效性。(1)开发软件程序和基础实验，以实现虚拟现实方法，作为博物馆使用Internet并作为WWW服务器发送信息的情况下引入视觉图像的方法。(2)从WWW服务器上收集信息，转换成数字图像并组织成数据库。(3)根据上述研究结果，支持在博物馆公园（自然博物馆茨木县）安装WWW服务器并向公众开放。

With 2 days weekend becoming more accepted around the society, museums become to be expected to play the role of societal educational institute. Also, with the recognition of the importance of environmental education becomes more visible, museums become to be expected to take a part of the role in environmental education. This study focused on the items, which concerns about following 2 points.1 Analysis of the content and the method of environmental education at museums.(1) Conducted a research and analysis regarding the current situation of this theme around the world.(2) Conducted a discussion on how the actual environment education can be carried out at museums content, method and audience based on the findings of the above research.(3) Held a seminar and workshop inviting environmental educators at museums in the USA.(4) Developed a module style educational material that would be used in the actual education.(5) Conducted a survey to museum visitors on their expectations on the environmental education at museums.(6) Held a seminar at museums for environmental education teachers and studied the affect,2 Analysis of the possibility of development of information system for environmental education support cente red in museums and its effectiveness.(1) Development of soft program and fundamental experiment for implementing virtual reality method as a way to introduce visual images in case museums would use Internet and play a role to send information as WWW server.(2) Collected information from WWW server, converted into digital images and organized them into data base.(3) Based on the outcomes of the above research, supported to install a WWW server at Museum Park (Nature museum Ibaraki Prefecture) and opened to the public.