Introduction:

      Brief introduction of lecture content:

      Based on his work experience in hosting exhibitions at the Royal Ontario Museum in the past 20 years, Dr. Shen Chen introduced the exhibition concepts and practices of Western museums from three aspects: Curating, Interpretative Planning and Criticizing. As a new type of museum in the 21st century, the Royal Ontario Museum of Canada recently launched a series of exhibitions designed for audiences, making new attempts in Curating, Interpretative Planning and Criticizing. "Everything is for the audience" is the core idea of "Curating, Interpretative Planning and Criticizing." Enhancing mutual understanding between academic and popular culture, expressing the academic and artistic connotations of exhibits, and making the audience feeling better are criterion for judging  museum exhibitions.

Speaker profile:

Shen Chen is a Chinese-Canadian archeologist and museum scientist. His research includes Paleolithic archeology, cultural heritage, and museum science. He graduated from the Department of History of Wuhan University in 1986 with a major in archeology. He has studied in the United States and Canada since 1990. He received a Ph.D. in human archaeology from the University of Toronto in 1997, and then served in the Royal Ontario Museum. Now he is the vice president of the museum, director of the Department of World Culture, researcher of East Asian Archeology and professor of the Department of Anthropology and East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. As expert of overseas assessment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, visiting researcher of the Institute of Palaeoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Li Qing academic lecture professor of the Oriental Archaeological Research Center of Shandong University, Dr. Shen Chen is responsible for the management, research and display of more than 60,000 East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) cultural relics at the Royal Ontario Museum, and has organized exhibitions such as "Sanxingdui Culture", "Chinese Qin Terracotta Warriors" and "Forbidden City: The Palace Museum Ming and Qing Dynasties Living Cultural Relics Exhibition". The "Pharaoh King" exhibition co-hosted by Nanjing Museum in 2017 has achieved great success in China and made great contributions to China-Canadian cultural exchanges.