Establishment of the concept and practice of eco-museum as a revitalization measure against the depopulation and aging processes in local areas

我们的尝试是将生态博物馆发展为地方社区建设措施，以复兴地方文化和人与自然的共生，旨在基于对当地区域资源的再利用，在更大范围内进行社区交流和关系。本研究以京都探戈地区为研究对象，旨在通过建立一个数据库，调查该地区的文化、生活方式和自然资源的潜在价值，并进一步研究和建立生态博物馆的基本概念，将当地的自然、文化和人作为一个活的博物馆或舞台来接近。通过对当地农业、林业、工艺品、地方饮食习俗、传统娱乐艺术、水资源、动植物、景观等方面的研究，我们发现了喜悦观察接近自然的自给自足生活方式的宝贵价值，并明确了未来发展生态博物馆的方向，将生态博物馆作为当地社区建设，创造一个吸引客人和引以为豪的区域。因此，很明显：1)生态博物馆是每个地区想要保存、传播或欣赏的一切事物的博物馆或舞台。2)从生活过程中创造的生活美(日常生活美)来考虑农业山村的美和光，寻找当地的原始景观(原始景观)。3)保护和传播当地的自然和生活文化之美，不是通过将它们插入指定的建筑或设施内，而是放在它们原来的地方。4)重要的是要将当地的“灯光”或景点视为创造每个当地的自豪感，在该地区的日常生活中振兴它们。

Our attempt is to develop Eco-museums as local community building measures to revive local culture and the symbiosis between people and nature, aiming at community exchange and relations in a wider scale, based on the re-use of local regional resources. The aim of the present research, focused on Tango region of Kyoto prefecture, is to investigate the potential values of the cultural, lifestyle and natural resources of this region by making a database and further, to study and build the basic concept of an Eco-museum as a Local Community Building where local nature, culture and people can be approached as a living museum or stage. As a result of our research on the regional farming, forestry, craftworks, local food customs, traditional entertaining arts, water resources, flora and fauna, landscape, etc. we discovered the precious value and joy to observe the close-to-nature self-sufficient lifestyle and we clarified a future direction to develop eco-museums as local community building to create a guests-attracting and pride-breeding region. As a result, it becomes clear that: 1)Ecomuseum is a museum or stage of all things that each region wants to preserve, transmit or enjoy. 2)We are searching for the local proto-landscape (original landscape) by considering the beauty and lights of agricultural mountain villages in terms of beauty of living created in the process of life (beauty in everyday life). 3)It is important to preserve and transmit the beauty of local area's nature and living culture not by inserting them inside designated buildings or facilities, but in their original places. 4)It is important to consider local area is 'lights' or attractions as creating the pride of each local area, revitalizing them within the everyday life of the area.