Exploring Innovative Concepts and Practices in “Non-Object” Exhibitions in Museums

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In today’s museums, the ways a wide range of audiences acquire knowledge are not just limited to examining “objects” (objects in museums). Emerging auxiliary materials can also help them understand the histories and life of their predecessors. These auxiliary materials endowed with excellent narrative capacities, have not only broadened the channels for information transmissions in museum exhibitions, but also given additional possibilities for exhibition planners. Based on this, some units have tried to offer the brand-new “Non-object” exhibition mode dominated by auxiliary materials. Different from those traditional exhibition modes, the “Non-object” exhibition mode does not use objects in museums to give narrations for purpose of emphasizing two-way interactions with the audience and transmitting knowledge to audiences through light academic exhibition texts. The Encountering Mi Fu Exhibition has concretely practiced such “Non-object” exhibition mode. By using auxiliary materials as main narrations, it has better told stories through plenty of lightly academic exhibition texts, guided audiences’ participation through a variety of interactive devices, gave some reflections on the “Non-object” exhibition mode, as well as pointed out the reasons why it is suitable for small and medium-sized museums for purpose of providing new inspirations, new ideas and new directions for future museum-exhibition planning work.

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