重庆中国三峡博物馆(重庆博物馆)前身是1951年成立的西南博物院,其博物馆教育功能之发挥则可更早追溯至抗战大后方时期中国西部科学博物馆。2011年建馆60年之际,重庆中国三峡博物馆成立馆史编撰课题组计划编撰大事记及馆史,但最终未正式公开出版。作为编撰组成员之一,笔者在对馆史资料初步整理基础上,结合中国社会发展各阶段赋予博物馆的历史背景,对该馆创建发展各阶段的社会教育功能定位做一论述,并从中发现中国博物馆社会教育功能的变化趋势,以期对梳理中国博物馆发展与未来规划赋予特殊意义,以求教于前辈同仁。 Chongqing China Three Gorges Museum (Chongqing Museum), formerly known as the Southwestern Museum, was established in 1951. The museum’s educational functions can be traced back to the Western China Science Museum during the War of Resistance Against Japan. At the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Museum in 2011, the Chongqing Museum of China’s Three Gorges Project set up a history writing compilation team to compile the memorabilia and the museum history, but it was not officially published. As one of the members of the compilation team, based on the initial collation of the museum history data, combining with the historical background of the museum given to the various stages of social development in China, the author makes a discussion on the function of social education in all stages of the museum’s creation and development and finds that China The changing trend of the social education function of the museum, with a view to combing the development and future planning of the Chinese museum to give special significance in order to teach colleagues in the older generation.