Recent Strategy & Characteristic of Worldwide Design Museums

Abstract

Design museum has been grown explosively and got the spotlight worldwide. In this study, we explorer why recently new and remodeled design museums are briskly open and shed light on the characteristic and strategy of global design museum with great success in the world. This study is qualitative research based on case study. The research question posed in this study is: What are the best practice of the design museums as seen by selected stakeholders in relations to its structure and strategies. Grounded theory approach was used to make sense of the collection and analysis of the data. Data collection of document analysis was used primarily. Among global design museums that represent their nations, several design museums focus on the diversity of design work and others specialize in specific field. However, common point of those is that they do not just display the object, but apply their design history, culture, and value. Also, they continuously sympathize and communicate with spectators for further development. Throughout the successful design museum cases, we could know that true design museum is the place where they pursue design that arouses people’s empathy, communicate with spectators through experience and seek practicality with aesthetic value.