抄録
Our attempt is to develop Eco-museums as local community building measures to revive local culture and the symbiosis between people and nature, aiming at community exchange and relations in a wider scale, based on the reuse of local regional resources. The aim of the present research, focused on Tango region of Kyoto prefecture, is to investigate the potential values of the cultural, lifestyle and natural resources of this region through the database and further, to study and build the basic concept of 'an Eco- museum as a Local Community Building', where local nature, culture and people can be approached as a living museum or stage. As a result of our research on the regional farming, forestry, craftworks, local food customs, traditional entertaining arts, water resources, flora and fauna, landscape, etc. we discovered the precious value and joy to observe the close-to-nature self-sufficient lifestyle and we clarified a future direction to develop eco-museums as local community building to create a ' guests-attracting and pride-breeding region'.
