Today educational function of college museum is receiving attention due to its various factors as social·individual desire, etc. College museum restricted beneficiary to the members within the college in the past, however recently many college museums are helping to improve quality of life of regional members by operating programs for regional residents.
College museum is changing to lifelong education institute, and cultural art center. As five-day workweek for workers is implemented along with elementary·middle school’s five-day week is implemented, viewpoint on cultural education to spent leisure time together with family is steadily increasing. Presently college museums are running various educational programs, e.g. exhibition link, experience link, etc. proper for their own characteristic.
However, compared to this social demand, there are several problems in the reality of college museums. First, college museums need to develop education program based on the region and the characteristic of museum in order to intensify each other’s characteristic. Second, compared to increasing educational program, all museums including college museums do not have enough special manpower. Training of experts for the professionalism of education is required. Third, through the cooperation with local community, college museums need to be used more easily. Fourth, financial support for stable operation of education and improvement of quality of education is necessary. Beneficiary of college museum education program is also regional residents. For the regional residents, the government and local government should spare no efforts to support financially.