The goals of museum collaboration are several, as are its intended beneficiaries. Assuming the success of the practice, local communities can gain the opportunity for self-representation and self-determination, museums can contribute to the creation and dissemination of new kinds of knowledge, and visitors can take home better understandings of cultural difference. While these are the ideals of collaboration, they frequently go unrealized, in large part because, as research indicates, the visiting public fails to recognize the active involvement of communities at museums. This raises the question as to whether, in the absence of this audience awareness, museum collaboration can fully contribute to the realization of the tolerant society that it purports to support. The purpose of this research is to examine the role of museum visitors in achieving the goals of museum collaboration, as well as to consider why this public has difficulty recognizing community involvement at museums and how this may be remedied. “A Partnership of Peoples” is an extensive renewal project underway at the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at the University of British Columbia (UBC), designed to facilitate collaborative research at the museum. It also serves as a case study for my consideration of the relationship between museums and the visiting public as a part of the collaborative process. By speaking with both MOA staff and visitors, I gained insight into the intended goals of the renewal project with respect to the museum’s relationship with communities and the general public, as well as visitor understandings of collaboration. With this fieldwork, in addition to a literature review, I found that the significance of collaboration rests in the personal interactions that occur between individuals. As the majority of visitors do not benefit from these interactions during their time at the museum, they are at a disadvantage when it comes to recognizing the engagement of others in the creation of displays or the facilitation of research. The task for museums, then, is to make contemporary peoples visible and audible, connecting objects to communities and increasing opportunities for visitors to experience these personal meanings.

This thesis explores the issues surrounding the ruins of the Clayburn Company Ltd. Since its demolition in 1930, the original source of pride and income for the company town has become more and more invisible except in the memories of some long-term residents. Now that the village is populated by a new generation that wishes to rejuvenate and adopt the idealistic past of Clayburn Village, interest has turned to the overgrown lot where the factory once stood. For the rest of the village, the path to revitalizing Clayburn Village has been obvious. Many of the most important houses and three non-residential structures still stand and have been restored. However, only traces of the brick factory remain, leaving the options about how to pay homage more various and less obvious. This paper relates a history of Clayburn, then explores the construction of histories and the importance of artifacts to support those histories. In this case the artifacts in question are buildings. Current actions being taken to restore the built heritage of the village demonstrate the commitment on the part of residents to that means of preserving their history. Possible options are explored, from low to high levels of intervention, ranging from leaving the ruins to the attrition of time, until they finally dissolve, to building directly over the ruins with an obviously new building. The proposed plan for the site takes a stance between these two extremes. The program for the site includes a visitor's centre of modern design, that is not located where buildings previously existed, and landscape elements that mark the former locations of brick plant buildings. A careful weighing of several criteria, including the desire to impart as much information as possible, while not confusing the visitor as to antiquity or detracting from the future use of the site as a green space, resulted in the final design. The value of the experience of the ruins as a project in progress was also felt to be important.

Historiska tragedier har visat på den potentiella faran och de allvarliga och ibland tragiska konsekvenser som kan uppstå på arenor och platser där det vistas många människor. I en publik finns alla typer av människor representerade och det finns flera utmaningar kring att kommunicera säkerhet till en bred målgrupp som har fokus på upplevelsen av evenemanget. Syftet med denna studie är att fånga uppfattningen av hur ansvariga på arenor arbetar och interagerar kring säkerhet med besökare på en arena. Totalt har sex stycken kvalitativa intervjuer med åtta personer som arbetar med arenor genomförts och tematiskt analyserats. Resultatet framhäver att säkerhet och trygghet ligger högst på prioritetslistan både hos arenor och arrangörer. Aktörernas storlek och därmed resurser påverkar förutsättningarna för arbetet och därför kan arbetssättet variera. Samverkan mellan olika aktörer och myndigheter har utvecklats de senaste åren och fungerar väl. Även om det sett till lagar och regler finns en tydlig ansvarsfördelning ser flera arenor sig som en form av kontrollant gällande vissa säkerhetsaspekter. Det finns flera utmaningar, bland annat eftersom riskuppfattning är subjektiv och varje evenemang unikt. Planering och analys är därför viktigt, med hänsyn till bland annat typen av evenemang, förväntad publikbild, aktuell hotbild och lokala förutsättningar. Sociala medier har öppnat upp nya möjligheter kring information och dialog men också nya risker då okontrollerad information snabbt kan spridas. Erfarenhetsutbyte mellan arenorna verkar i dagsläget till största delen ske informellt trots att forskning visar att genom att lära sig från sina egna och andras misstag kan nya misstag undvikas eller konsekvenser lindras. Resultatet tyder på att utvecklingen kring säkerhetsinformation går mot en mer proaktiv approach och att trygghet och service är nyckelord. Framtiden finns i ett gemensamt ansvar - ”see something, say something”. / Historical events have shown the potential danger and the serious and sometimes tragic consequences that can occur at arenas and places where large crowds are gathered. There are several challenges when communicating safety to a broad audience whose focus lays on the event and its adventures. The purpose of this study is to examine how managers at arenas operate and interact around the safety of visitors in an arena. A total of six qualitative interviews with eight people who work with arenas was done and thematically analysed. The results of the study show that safety and security are on top of the priority list of both the arenas and organizers. The organisation’s size and thus resources affects the conditions for work and therefore the approach can differ. Although there is a clear division of responsibilities in terms of laws and regulations most arenas consider themselves as a form of controller on certain fundamental aspects of safety. Collaboration between stakeholders and government has evolved during the last years and is considered to be good. There are several challenges since risk perception is subjective, and also because each event is unique. Planning and analysis is therefore crucial, taking into account the nature of the event, expected audience, potential threats and local conditions. Social media has opened up new possibilities related to information and dialogue but also new risks since uncontrolled information can spread rapidly. Exchange of experience between the arenas appears to mainly be done informally, although research has shown that by learning from own and others' mistakes, new mistakes can be avoided and potential impacts milder. The result shows that there is a movement towards a more proactive safety approach and that safety and service are key factors. The future will hold a shared responsibility - “see something, say something”.

West-countries museums, which had represented the traditional, historical and national values, have transformed since 1980 extending the range and character of their activities. Such transformations in Lithuania started in 1990, after regaining Lithuania independence. The museums, along with representation of „high level“ culture, started to take part in the processes of contemporary and popular culture, and the range of their activities started to vary a lot. The needs of museum visitors became one of the main issue. Anyway, the issues of interaction and relationship between museums and community, the analysis of museums sociocultural activities still remain very important problem requiring deeper studies. This study investigates municipality museums sociocultural activities. The study focuses on conceptualization of such activities, the interaction between museums and regional communities which is understood by meeting sociocultural needs of the visitors. This research project includes four pats. First three parts presents literature analysis: the theoretical basis of museums sociocultural activities, museums-community relationship peculiarities and general museums policy in Lithuania in 1990 – 2004. The fourth part includes the investigation of museums sociocultural activities in community from the visitor’s point of view. The following museums were included in the study: Panevėžys country, Biržai, Kupiškis, Pasvalys and Rokiškis municipality museums. 136 visitors... [to full text]

Uganda’s tourism industry is a major source of foreign exchange income, creating much-needed employment and development opportunities. This study provided an overview of motivations and characteristics of non-resident visitors to Uganda. This exploratory research was conducted in Uganda during July and August 2011. Information obtained includes the popular activities and places visited, visitor expenditures, demographic information, motivation for visiting Uganda, and motivation for traveling and volunteering in general. This study concluded that the majority of non-resident visitors leaving Uganda were volunteers, with a majority being religious volunteers who did not represent a sustainable tourism market within Uganda. Data provided in this study can allow tourism stakeholders to draw conclusions on what is needed in Uganda to help the tourism sector to continue growing more sustainably and to remain competitive amongst other East African tourist destinations.

A large part of the tourism literature has focused on the phenomenon of slavery tourism, or the visitation of sites related to the Transatlantic Slave Trade. In the U.S. South, former plantation homes are popular sites of visitation, albeit very few studies have looked at African Americans' experiences there. The purpose of this qualitative dissertation is to understand both the politics of representation of slavery at slavery related sites (production side) and the different ways African American visitors make sense of these sites (consumption side). The present study uses the case of the African Burial Ground National Monument, a former cemetery for enslaved and free Africans living in colonial New Amsterdam (today New York City) and now a National Park in Lower Manhattan, which exhibits a complex combination of "darkness" and "sacredness." The site exposes the public to its contentious process of development and reveals that African American visitors have mixed perceptions of slavery and the way it should be remembered and represented on site (Africans as victims or as victors), as well as a range of motivations to visit, experiences and emotions attached to the site. This research illustrates how slavery tourism sites choose to represent slavery, whether from the perspective of the White slaveholders, as it has traditionally been done, or from the perspective of enslaved Africans, as it is done at the African Burial Ground. Whatever the strategy they choose, this study demonstrates that there is a process through which these sites go in order to create the final product to be presented in the brochures, tour narratives, and exhibits. This study illustrates how visitors' relationship to the site influences their experience there, including the physical, spiritual, and psychological acts they exercise (volunteering, praying, pouring libations, communicating with the ancestors, etc.), and the meanings they attach to the site visited, whether it is pride, sadness, anger, or peace. The significant insights from this study contribute to the current literature on slavery tourism, particularly the one on African American visitors' experiences, and suggest managerial propositions for the National Park Service and other institutions offering interpretive programs on slavery.

This research is carried out to explore the factors that influence visitors to choose a particular destination for a visit or the attributes visitors consider necessary to quality a place as a potential destination for a visit. This research is a comparative study on tourism destination marketing conducted in a town in a developed country; Gotland Island in Sweden and a town in a developing country; Limbe city in Cameroon. This research tries test two hypothesis, which were formulated by the researcher. Hypothesis I; visitors consider particular attributes in a destination before they visit it. Hypothesis II; some attributes are inevitable in any destination choice decision. The research contains ideas from 200 respondents, 100 visitors of Gotland Island, and 100 visitors of Limbe City, and the results support both hypothesis. The research also contains a comparison of the attributes visitors consider in Gotland Island and Limbe city. This brings out the factors that would be considered by visitors in a developed country and visitors in developing country.

The aim of the thesis is to present the visitors knowledge from Archaeology museums in Catalonia, based on the Archaeology museums of Catalonia. In Catalonia there are no studies about the public of these museums. Lack objective data about the public from which they rise to raise our hypotheses regarding the impact of archaeological museums on the population. From a methodological and systematic analysis we can get closer to the knowledge of the general characteristics of the public of these museums. We focus on the visitors through interviews and surveys with observation and indirect functions of museums related to public exposure of their content, and assessing the impact of exposure and whether it has achieved their goals. From there you hire the evolution that has taken Archaeology in our country and if museums are analyzing whether a meeting between researchers and the public. The evaluation presented on visitors and the exhibition halls aims to provide information about museums and approach to the dissemination of knowledge in reference to the archeology in museums in Catalonia. / Los objetivos de la tesis son identificar en el panorama turístico actual cuales son las tipologías turísticas capaces de garantizar un adecuado nivel de sostenibilidad, es decir las que tienen en cuenta la necesidad de establecer eficaces alianzas entre los principales actores del sector turístico: 1. Buscando ejemplos prácticos de modalidades turísticas más responsables con los recursos. 2. Destacando el rol desempeñado por el ecoturismo, aquella modalidad turística según la qual el visitante realiza sus vacaciones relacionándose de manera más consciente y directa con los aspectos medioambientales y socioculturales presentes en el lugar elegido. 3. identificando las acciones dirigidas a garantizar la salvaguarda del medio ambiente y el despegue económico de áreas tradicionalmente deprimidas por el hecho de haber estado ajenas a la práctica de actividades productivas y económicamente rentables. 4. identificando objetos dirigidos a estimular el consumo turístico de un área natural protegida interpretada como espacio auténtico según ideales postfordistas e identificar los perfiles de los turistas característicos de las áreas protegidas. Tambien si los productos turísticos ligados a la naturaleza, cultura y gastronomía pueden contribuir a revitalizar el turismo costero de Liguria 5. Verificando si el sistema regional de espacios protegidos ha producido resultados en protección medioambiental y a la vez desarrollo endógeno a través del turismo. 6. Cuantificando la oferta real de las áreas estudiadas. 7. Verificando si los tres parques estudiados han identificado y desarrollado objetos específicos de consumo turístico.

The goals of museum collaboration are several, as are its intended beneficiaries. Assuming the success of the practice, local communities can gain the opportunity for self-representation and self-determination, museums can contribute to the creation and dissemination of new kinds of knowledge, and visitors can take home better understandings of cultural difference. While these are the ideals of collaboration, they frequently go unrealized, in large part because, as research indicates, the visiting public fails to recognize the active involvement of communities at museums. This raises the question as to whether, in the absence of this audience awareness, museum collaboration can fully contribute to the realization of the tolerant society that it purports to support. The purpose of this research is to examine the role of museum visitors in achieving the goals of museum collaboration, as well as to consider why this public has difficulty recognizing community involvement at museums and how this may be remedied. “A Partnership of Peoples” is an extensive renewal project underway at the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at the University of British Columbia (UBC), designed to facilitate collaborative research at the museum. It also serves as a case study for my consideration of the relationship between museums and the visiting public as a part of the collaborative process. By speaking with both MOA staff and visitors, I gained insight into the intended goals of the renewal project with respect to the museum’s relationship with communities and the general public, as well as visitor understandings of collaboration. With this fieldwork, in addition to a literature review, I found that the significance of collaboration rests in the personal interactions that occur between individuals. As the majority of visitors do not benefit from these interactions during their time at the museum, they are at a disadvantage when it comes to recognizing the engagement of others in the creation of displays or the facilitation of research. The task for museums, then, is to make contemporary peoples visible and audible, connecting objects to communities and increasing opportunities for visitors to experience these personal meanings.

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