中国既是一个历史悠久的文明古国,又是一个蓬勃发展中的现代国家。随着科学文化的发展进步,如果经济车轮的高速运转没有先进文化的同步伴随,其发展态势就是不可持续的。因此,使青少年接受广泛的教育、学习广博的知识,已成为人们的迫切需要。教育主要有学校教育和社会教育两种途径。博物馆是一个以文物标本为基础,通过陈列展览进行形象的直观教育的社会教育机构,是任何其他机构所不能代替的,是现代社会教育的重要组成部分。然而长期以来,我们把博物馆的“藏宝”功能看得太重,对它的公共文化设施、社会教育场所等方面属性认识不足。重视博物馆的社会教育作用,充分发挥博物馆的社会教育职能,已经引起了各方面的普遍关注。对此,我们必须认识到,应当解放思想,最大限度地发挥博物馆对青少年的教育职能,为社会培养人才,为促进社会主义现代化建设事业作出应有的贡献,为科教兴国贡献力量。 China is both an ancient civilization with a long history and a thriving modern country. With the development of science and culture, the development trend of the economy is unsustainable if the high-speed running of economic wheels is not accompanied by advanced culture. Therefore, it has become an urgent need for young people to receive extensive education and acquire extensive knowledge. Education mainly has two ways of school education and social education. The museum is a social educational institution that takes visual specimens as its basis and displays its images through visualization. It is an irreplaceable part of any other institution and an important part of education in modern society. However, for a long time, we have placed too much emphasis on the Museum’s “treasure” function and lacked an understanding of its public cultural facilities and social education sites. Paying attention to the social education function of the museum and giving full play to the social education function of the museum have caused widespread concern in all fields. To this end, we must recognize that we should emancipate the mind, maximize the museum’s educational functions for young people, train qualified personnel for the society, make due contributions to the cause of socialist modernization, and contribute to rejuvenating the country with science and education.