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Museum expansion is one of the key indicators in cultural policy. Representative cultural institutions like museums are the symbol of cultural legitimacy and pride, understood as a cultural standard in a society. To increase the number of cultural institutions up to the standard of developed countries, continuous research and policy development about cultural institution expansion have been done. Since regional autonomy policy has been declared, most of regional directors have set capital projects of cultural institution as a barometer for the cultural development and the fruit of autonomy. Thus, the approach to cultural institution has been a key issue which shows the statistical result in policy goal.
There is no denial in cultural policy’s role of increasing the number of museums. However, its quantitative approach results in numerous problems which crippled cultural function of museum in qualitative level. Most of museums are constructed and maintained without consulting proper professional opinions and making necessary arrangements with local residents. So increasing financial deficit, lowering maintenance efficiency, out of date exhibit, constant shortage of professional personnel and indifference of local residents have been common difficulties in most of museums. This is mainly caused by the limited understanding which regards museum as a ‘construction’ only. This fundamental absence of systematic planning inevitably leads to future maintenance problems. For this reason, the museum culture and professionalism have fallen behind.
Seeking solution for this problem, the goal of this study is to emphasize the importance of conceptional and operational planning process which enough preparation works are carried out beforehand. Especially, to make museum planning more professional, the research on museum planning process and museum planner’s role in a foreign country have been done and its possible application has been discussed to propose overall improvement plan for museum capital projects in Korea.
The goal of introducing a museum planner in total museum building stages is to develop and revitalize museum culture by securing more competitive power. Thus, it not only develops museum culture but also laying solid foundation for industrial infrastructure. If museum capital projects are settled as a part of knowledge-intensive industries, it will ignite cultural institution projects such as auditorium, theater or culture center which have been going through same difficulties as museum, expanding the horizon of culture planning. Therefore, reinforcing museum preliminary plan and the introduction of museum planning are necessary not only because of technical merit in building museum. This issue should be viewed from the cultural development policy standpoint requiring more detailed research in effective introductory methods and legislative support in policy making.