Along with Korea's rapid economic growth, there are many social changes like 5-day
work week and 2nd and 4th Saturdays off from school for students, and people are
investing more to develop themselves. Among this changing environment, we can also find
the increasing expectation of public towards the museum.
But the majority of private museums which are 185 out of 434 museums in number all
over in Korea is under a difficult situation to run. Public or private museums located in
regions exist not only to present and preserve the traditional or folk cultures, but also to
succeed the unique culture that are constantly being created in local people's lives.
Specially life history museum carries an important role to collect items which represent the
life culture of its region and develop them.
In reality, these museums are disappearing because of chronic loss and indifference of
public. Therefore this study is to suggest the ways to animate the local museums as well
as the ways to activate the culture in general for region through museums.