Towards a Global Network of Water Museums A Common Heritage for a Sustainable Future Palazzo Zorzi, Venice, Italy. 2-4 May 2017

1. Assistant president, Yunnan Academy of
Social Sciences
Director, Yunnan Water Museum Project
Xiao Yun, Zheng
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Yunnan Water Museum project is planned water museum in
Yunnan province of China. But as a part of the project, Dianchi
Lake Water Museum has been constructed in 2014 in Kunming
University campus and opened to public. In the next stage, a
larger water museum Yunnan Water Museum is planned for
construction.
Dianchi Lake Water Museum
Funded by the Centre Governmental Financial Support Project
and Kunming University, Dianchi Lake Water Museum was
constructed and open to the public in 2014.
The museum use photos, video, digital tools and physicals to
exhibiting the water history and current situation of Lake
Dianchi, the sixth large fresh water lake in China.
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Museum of Yunnan Water Museum
Project

3. Exhibition
• The exhibition
is consisted
with a main
hall(600m2)
and six branch
halls, a digital
information
place, and six
local open air
places along
the Lake
Dianchi basin.

4. Main activities are for water
education to the university
student and the citizen to get
water knowledge usually,
and hold regularly water
lectures, symposium, etc.
The museum has regular
communication with the
local governments and
institutions for information
exchange and educations

5. Planned construction of Yunnan
Water Museum
In coming two
years, we will
begin the new
water museum
construction.

6. Weakness
Current Dian Chi Lake Water Museum is still
limited for its space of exhibition to include more
exhibiting contents.
- Poor communication activities with the broad
society due to its location in the university campus.
-Coming Yunnan Water Museum still lack of
enough funding to get its constructional goals.
-challenges for its beginning of construction, the
design, staff training, sustainable funding, and
how to establish the cooperation with other
museums, social organizations, etc.
Weaknesses and Threats: aspects to be improved

7. Threats
- current Dianchi Lake Water Museum limited in
exhibition space.
-case in China, there is no water museum network to
working in communication, promote the improvement of
the exhibition, training and other activities among the
museums.
-how to capture the interesting of the public is a problem.
Currently poor interesting of the public is a challenge for
water museum in China.
Improvement
--establish broad cooperation with other water
museums, join the global water museum network.
--exchange exhibitions with other water museums.
--increasing the visibility to the public by join more social
Activities, like the World Water Day, cooperation with
the schools, etc.
Weaknesses and Threats: aspects to be improved
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8. Water and MDGs (Millennium Development Goals)
Current works
Yunnan Water museum (includes Dianchi Lake water
Museum) has contributed to water sustainability by the
topics:
--water exhibition and educations, there are thousands
people visited the museum.
--collection of the water related historical physicals.
--public education by the lectures, conference, etc.
--research on water issues of the locals.
--data collections of water.
Water and MDGs

9. Water and MDGs (Millennium Development Goals)
The future
--exchange exhibition with other water museums, especially
with international museums is an important way to capture the
publics and increase the visibility.
--join the global network of water museum, to get broad
Cooperation space.
--organize water museum research activities, conference and
publication.
--exchange visiting training and research among the water
museum internationally
Water and MDGs
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10. Expectations for Global Network of Water Museums:
--make a common web for exchanging the information,
communication, etc.
--regular workshop of the GNWM for discussing the works.
--organize regular staff training.
--issue the news letter of GNMW regularly.
--exchange exhibition in the future.
The offers from our museum
--coordinate the local water museums to contribute GNWM
--organize the international activities, include workshop,
training, support local water research, etc.
--share local information to the network.
--join the international training work.
Global Network: our expectations
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11. Expectations for Global Network of Water Museums:
The needs
--the lessons for innovating the exhibition, display,
public education and other functions.
--receive information from other museums for improve
our works.
--join international training activities, especially in the
areas of how to improve exhibiting design and extend
the public relationship.
--increase the visibility internationally.
Global Network: our expectations
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