SOCIETY IS NESTED WITHIN THE ENVIRONMENT AND REST ON A FOUNDATION OF CULTURE CALLED ECO-MUSEUM

Abstract

Eco-museums are for, by and about the people in their environment. One of the
best-characterized examples of eco-museum is community involvement; which
does not just preserve artifacts but protect and creates its physical environment
in the form of the landscape as well. They occupy a definable region delineated
by residents, where people work together to adapt to a changing world through
mindful development processes that reflect their communities, their landscapes,
and their ways of life. In China, there are various government-led eco-museums
projects that play in contemporary Chinese society as a strategy to preserve
cultural heritage and also stimulate economic development in ethnic minority
regions. This is an approach for reconfiguring people?s relationship with their
cultural heritage through culture, memory, meaning, values. 1According to De
Varine 'eco' in eco-museums refers to the well- adjusted relationship between a
society and its environment and equally, it defines 'house' or 'living space'. It is
not just an institution that facilitates involvement in the decision-making process
but also places of daily life and this spread the concept of involvement essential.
Eco may refer to both community and ecology through which it integrates
different approaches to heritage to communities and ecology. It is more
engaged with the local communities than travellers through services. According
to Corsane et al; evaluating the authenticity of an eco-museums can be justified
by the level of its community engagement and democracy. The focus on
community involvement means that eco-museums also includes heritage in
strategies of sustainable community development along with its preserving
heritage in the form of artifacts. Community interaction or attachment with its
territory is called a sense of place and it is generated by involvement that exists
in all human habits. Eco-museums thus include the question of heritage into the
involvement along with the preservation of outstanding places. A communityoriented
or palatial understanding of the landscape is an important element of eco-museums that involves cultural and historical landscape and thus creates a
sense of place and enhances local pride, place identity. The purpose of the
paper is to understand the role of eco-museums in the area of the identity of a
place, largely based on local participation and aiming to enhance the welfare
and development of local communities. The methodology to write the paper has
been taken by the description of sources reading, gathering in-depth insights on
topics, focuses on exploring ideas, summarizing and interpreting and mainly
expresses in words (qualitative approach). The outcome of the paper has
justified the importance of local communities who are sustainably attached
through values and beliefs and their traditional norms by the roots of nature.
Therefore the paper has justified that eco-museums encourage sustainable
community development based on in situ conservation and interpretation. The
feature question is; what are the outcomes of the community development by
its interpretation? And in which position eco-museums stands in the context of
its overall development along with its ecological connectivity?