Innovation in Teaching Model Based on University Museum Resources

In recent years, many domestic schools of fashion design have enhanced their efforts in teaching study of ethnic costume culture as more and more novel ideas and scientific teaching methods are applied. Digging, sorting out, transforming, and applying the national costume culture in the school teaching of fashion design is a main way to inherit and develop the national costume culture. As a knowledge transfer space in universities, museums pass knowledge to students via exhibitions and teaching activities, seek for answers across the space and time by exploratory learning as a practice since ancient times. Ethnic costume museums are important premises to study and inherit national costume culture and natural teaching resources. Taking the Study on Chinese National Costume Decoration opened by the Museum of Ethnic Costumes, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology as an example, this paper analyzes the teaching resources, content, methods, and results, etc. of courses to reflect on the university museums related to ethnic costume culture and its course teaching. It also discusses the potential advantages of university museums in teaching to combine with national costume culture innovation and inheritance courses for innovation in teaching model as a reference.