[ABSTRAK
Tesis ini membahas tentang pengembangan Pusat Informasi Kawasan Percandian Muarajambi sebagai sebuah museum situs yang merupakan salah satu jenis museum yang berlandaskan pada paradigma new museology. Lokasi penelitian di Kawasan Muarajambi, Kabupaten Muarojambi, Provinsi Jambi. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian yang bersifat deskriptif dengan pendekatan kualitatif. Hasil penelitian ini dapat merumuskan suatu konsep museum situs dalam rangka pengembangan Pusat Informasi Kawasan Percandian Muarajambi sebagai museum situs yang sesuaidengan kaidah permuseuman dan konsep new museology. Selain itu pengembangan pusat informasi ini menjadi sebuah museum situs dapat menjadi sarana yang baikuntuk penyebarluasan informasi, penelitian, pendidikan dan rekreasi. Pada dasarnya museum situs merupakan sebuah museum yang disusun dan dibentuk untuk melindungi tinggalan alam dan budaya, bergerak dan tidak bergerak, di situs aslinya, yaitu dilestarikan di tempat di mana tinggalan tersebut telah dibuat atau ditemukan.Eksibisi di dalam museum situs merupakan salah satu cara dalam mengomunikasikan hasil penelitian di situs. Interpretasi antara koleksi dan lingkungan situsdiintegrasikan dalam sebuah tata pamer. Selain melalui eksibisi, proses komunikasi di museum situs dapat juga dilakukan dengan program publik dan edukasi.

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ABSTRACT
This thesis research the development of the Information Center of Muarajambi Region as a site museum, which is a kind of museum that is based on the paradigm of the new museology. Locations of the research in the Muarajambi Region, Muarojambi District, Jambi Province. This research is a descriptive study with a qualitativeapproach. The results of this study can formulate a concept of the site museum in order to develop Information Center of Muarajambi Region as a museum site in accordance with the rules of the museum and the concept of new museology. In addition, the development of the information center into a museum site can be asmedia for the dissemination of information, research, education and recreation. In essence, the site museum is a museum conceived and set up in order to protect natural or cultural property, moveable and immoveable, on its original site, that is, preserved at theplace where such property has been created or discovered. Exhibition at the site museumis a kind in communicating the results of research on the site. Interpretation of the collections and the site are integrated in a theme exhibition layout. Communication process in the site museum can also carried out with public and educational programs;This thesis research the development of the Information Center of Muarajambi Region as a site museum, which is a kind of museum that is based on the paradigm of the new museology. Locations of the research in the Muarajambi Region, Muarojambi District, Jambi Province. This research is a descriptive study with a qualitativeapproach. The results of this study can formulate a concept of the site museum in order to develop Information Center of Muarajambi Region as a museum site in accordance with the rules of the museum and the concept of new museology. In addition, the development of the information center into a museum site can be asmedia for the dissemination of information, research, education and recreation. In essence, the site museum is a museum conceived and set up in order to protect natural or cultural property, moveable and immoveable, on its original site, that is, preserved at theplace where such property has been created or discovered. Exhibition at the site museumis a kind in communicating the results of research on the site. Interpretation of the collections and the site are integrated in a theme exhibition layout. Communication process in the site museum can also carried out with public and educational programs, This thesis research the development of the Information Center of Muarajambi Region as a site museum, which is a kind of museum that is based on the paradigm of the new museology. Locations of the research in the Muarajambi Region, Muarojambi District, Jambi Province. This research is a descriptive study with a qualitativeapproach. The results of this study can formulate a concept of the site museum in order to develop Information Center of Muarajambi Region as a museum site in accordance with the rules of the museum and the concept of new museology. In addition, the development of the information center into a museum site can be asmedia for the dissemination of information, research, education and recreation. In essence, the site museum is a museum conceived and set up in order to protect natural or cultural property, moveable and immoveable, on its original site, that is, preserved at theplace where such property has been created or discovered. Exhibition at the site museumis a kind in communicating the results of research on the site. Interpretation of the collections and the site are integrated in a theme exhibition layout. Communication process in the site museum can also carried out with public and educational programs]