Concerns on school-museum partnership have been practiced in many
museums for a long time. Current practices of school-museum partnership, however,
include several problems occurred due to the lack of systematic partnership
between two organizations. Flipped museum in this study, then, is suggested as an
alternative model of school-museum partnership proper for the digital age.
Flipped museum, basically borrowing main factors of flipped learning( i.e.,
use of video or digital resources for preliminary learning), is an alternative model
of school-museum collaborative learning consisted of three stages of learning
(pre-learning at school, visit at museum, and post-learning at school) within
blended learning environment.
In order to examine the possibility of the flipped museum as a new approach of
school-museum partnership, this study developed a case study of the flipped museum
program including two organizations(an elementary school with 20 5th graders and
National Folk Museum of Korea), and then examined if the model can overcome the
problems the current school-museum collaborative programs have confronted with.
After collecting and analyzing data from observation notes of the researchers,
deep interviews with teacher, curator, and the students, and their reflective
journals, respectively, the results showed, first, meaningfully positive learning
effects from the students after their participation in the flipped museum program,
and secondly, presented specific roles and requirements needed in each stage of
the flipped museum program. In a word, the flipped museum can be considered
useful as an alternative model of school-museum collaborative partnership utilizing
the blended learning environment needed in the digital age.