TITLE:
Integration and Innovation: Collection Management of Ethnic Minority Museums
AUTHORS:
Dongyou Huang, Chenchen Huang
KEYWORDS:
Ethnic Minority Museum, Collection Management, Theoretical Integration, Practical Innovation
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.14 No.3,
March
6,
2026
ABSTRACT: As the material carrier of the pluralistic unity pattern of Chinese civilization, the collections of ethnic minority museums are important cultural resources for building a community with a shared future for mankind. This paper systematically explores the current characteristics, practical challenges, and optimization paths of the collection in ethnic minority museums in the Chinese mainland region in three aspects: rational acquisition, scientific protection, and innovative utilization. The research found that the collection of the current minority museums has homogeneity, the protection technology is lagging behind, the utilization of the form is single, and so on. The framework of “value guidance-technology support-ecological symbiosis” should be established, which includes the rational collection and screening mechanism, the scientific protection system, and the innovation and utilization of the communication ecology, so as to provide theoretical reference and practical guidance for the revitalization and global sharing of the collection resources of the minority museums.