Eleventh International Conference on The Inclusive Museum

Abstract

The museum in the twenty-first century is the primary source of developments and transformations experienced in the cultural sector and a dynamic institute where sustainability associated tests are actualized. The museum diversifying its functions with traditional and contemporary approaches is a contemporary institution taken into consideration not only in the context of cultural heritage to be collected, protected, exhibited, and used for the purpose of training but also from the aspect of the strategies which allow them to recognized cross the globe and to turn into substantial resources for education to be developed and implemented. In line with the development of world museums, a considerable increase in the number of private and public museums is being experienced in Turkey. In the period during which the contemporary museum has new functions and uses many new concepts, the efforts of Turkish museums in using the museum environment for the educational purposes are in remarkable diversity. The state of being interweaving between the development of museums and the museum education in Turkey is in question. In this research realized in order to investigate the history of museum education in Turkey in context of museum education and to reveal the dilemmas related to the future of the field, the early period of museology (15-19th century), (Republican Period Early Years, The periods between 1960-2000 and Post-2000 period) have been scrutinized and the future plans of Turkish museums related to their harmonization with the contemporary functions and educational policies and practices have been discussed.