現代社會人們文化生活方式選擇的日益豐富,為博物館公共服務水平提出了更高要求。隨著社會城市化發展、市場自由化競爭、大眾旅游的興起以及社會文化多元發展的影響,博物館的角色也在不斷變化。西南少數民族博物館的形態和展示方式,也逐漸由作為收藏、研究、教育發展為交往、傳播和審美文化形態的博物館。近年來,西南少數民族博物館的發展主要體現在物質和非物質文化的傳承與保護、少數民族形象的審美與建構、文創產品的傳播與消費、新媒體技術的運用與創新以及私營博物館創建等方面的發展。

As an important characteristic of one nation,culture is a good embody of the nation’s cohesion and vitality.Ethnic minority museum is a part of this cultural system,which is the result of social,economical,technical and scienticif innovation. When cultural pattern and presentation are steadily changing,ethnic minority museum becomes a popular and global language. Therefore, in the globalization context,it is greatly important to study how ethnic minority museum exerts its educational function on the society and the public in a broader area and how to spread our nation’s civilizaion and culture to the world.