[S23-P] Poster

[S23-P-03] How do disaster museums communicate with the visitors?

^○Hideyuki Shiroshita, Yuto Oka (Kansai University, Takatsuki, Japan)

Disaster education is usually understood as knowledge transfer from experts on DRR to non-experts. However, several preceding studies pointed out this fixed relationship make the non-experts dependent on the expert. On the other hand, it is also argued that collaboration between experts and non-experts is needed to improve the standard of disaster management. In order to tackle this problem, the fixed relationship between experts and non-experts should be changed.
There are thus far 122 disaster education museums in Japan. If the above mentioned fixed relationship is also applied to the museums, there would be no interaction between the museums and the visitors. In order to evaluate current situation of the interaction at the disaster museums in Japan, a questionnaire survey has been carried out. Visitors' feedback has been taken as an example of method of communication between the museums and the visitors. As the result, it is revealed that 57.6% of the respondent museums have at least one method that realise interaction between the museums and the visitors. In addition, it is also revealed that 22.4% of the respondents collaborate with volunteers. This can be understood as another method of mutual communication.