The intentions of publishing the University & Art Museum (No. 1)—Art Museums as Knowledge Production and Civilization System are: firstly, we seek to, based on art museums, examine their internal structure and motivating factors. By elaborating on the art museum’s cultural principles, collection, public mission, education and administrative models,the issue explores the relationship between art museums, society, the modern education system, and civilization; secondly, we attempt to put art museums in a larger social and cultural context to discuss numerous possibilities based on modern cultural philosophy, views of cultural education, academic and scientific methods and new knowledge structure from the perspectives of college education.