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College Students’ Views on Museum Learning: A Sustainable Aesthetic Education Perspective

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  • Baoqing Song

    (Arts Education Centre, Beijing Institute of Technology, Zhuhai 519088, China
    Beijing Community Service and Science Society, Beijing 100080, China)

  • Jie Ren

    (Beijing Community Service and Science Society, Beijing 100080, China
    School of Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China)

  • Xiaohu Wang

    (Sino-French Institute, Renmin University of China, Suzhou 215000, China)

  • Xiang Xie

    (Beijing Community Service and Science Society, Beijing 100080, China
    School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China)

Abstract

Museums are important educational platforms in informal learning environments, offering essential off-campus venues for university-level aesthetic education. Over half of students’ independent off-campus art appreciation activities occur in museums. This study employed a mixed-methods approach to analyse students’ general impressions of museums using the TF-IDF algorithm. Additionally, the specific feelings of university students participating in self-directed museum learning were explored through focus groups, and differences between learning in museums and appreciating other art forms from the students’ perspectives were analysed. The results show that museums provide students with profound cultural and artistic knowledge. Students prefer museums for independent art appreciation because of the freedom, control, and safety offered in that learning process. In terms of interactivity, comprehensiveness, and repeatability, clear differences exist between museum art appreciation and other art disciplines. Overall, museums are important and sustainable off-campus aesthetic educational resources for universities.

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  • Baoqing Song & Jie Ren & Xiaohu Wang & Xiang Xie, 2025. "College Students’ Views on Museum Learning: A Sustainable Aesthetic Education Perspective," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 17(3), pages 1-14, January.
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