Jing An   安静

 

In my junior year, I left Xi’an Polytechnic University where I lived two years as a Broadcasting & Hosting student for Oklahoma Christian University (OC) in the U.S. During the following three years, I, with unremitting efforts, took four years’ worth of courses in three, majoring in Journalism and minoring in Education.

 

It was this communication-education experience that inspired me to set an unusual career goal for myself: promoting museum culture and incorporating it into people’s daily life and study in China, which is a perfect combination of communication and education in my mind.

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I was born in Xi’an, the capital of thirteen dynasties of China in history and home to various museums. Since childhood, it has been my usual practice to visit museums to feel traditional Chinese culture. I enjoy doing this for it exposes me to a vivid learning environment different from tedious classes. In order to release myself from the intense learning while studying at OC, I often visited local museums. For me, the attraction of museums lies in the process of picking up cultural and scientific knowledge through exposure to interesting exhibitions or activities. Even in my following visits to other cities like Washington and Chicago, museums were an obligatory stop on my trips.

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Thanks to fantastic museum experiences in the US, I have discovered my academic interest and career goal–developing the educational function of museums in China and transforming museums into platforms where students or visitors could feel and acquire knowledge interactively and effectively. For me, it is my life-long career to develop visiting museums into a daily leisure manner in people’s daily life and study with the aim of carrying forward traditional Chinese culture to more and more people, even to the world.

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