This study focuses on the linguistic landscape of museums, taking the museums in Shaoxing City as typical empirical research objects. Through multi-dimensional analysis, it deeply explores the current situation of their linguistic landscapes. Based on the current situation, it discovers the potential problems and the underlying causes, and accordingly proposes targeted optimization strategies. Through empirical research, the aim is to provide optimization strategies for the linguistic landscape of museums, comprehensively enhance their international cultural communication and exchange functions, offer certain theoretical support and practical guidance for the scientific construction of the linguistic landscape of museums, and help museums play a greater role in the field of cultural inheritance and communication.
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Chen, Y. , Shen, Y. , Yang, M. , Huang, C. and Wang, Y. (2025). Research on the Linguistic Landscape of Shaoxing Museums from the Perspective of International Cultural Communication. Open Access Library Journal, 12, e3211. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1113211.
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