Museum and Tourism
Museums and tourism
Stakeholders, resource and sustainable development
Master’s Dissertation International Museum Studies Museion/Göteborg University Spring term 2004 Author: Guðbrandur Benediktsson Supervisor: Cajsa Lagerkvist
LIST OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1. INTRODUCTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1. Aims and objectives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2. Theoretical approaches and sources. . . . . . . . . .
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2. TERMS AND DEFINITIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.1. What is a museum? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.2. What is tourism? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3. MUSEUMS AND CULTURAL TOURISM. . . . . . . . . . 16 3.1. Stakeholders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3.2. The resource. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3.3. Sustainable development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 3.4. Cooperation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 4. CASE STUDIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.1. Göteborgs Stadsmuseum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.2. Reykjavik Museum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3. Comparison on GSM and RM. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.4. SWOT-analysis regarding the museums and tourism. 5. CONCLUSION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6. BIBLIOGRAPHY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . APPENDIX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 34 37 40 43 47 50 60
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FOREWORD
The work on this dissertation has taken almost one year, the origin of the idea can be traced back to June 2003 and later that summer I began my work as an intern at Göteborgs Stadsmuseum, focusing on the museum’s relationship with tourism. The more I got acquainted to the subject, the more interesting I found it and with the support from Cajsa Lagerkvist, my supervisor in The Master’s Programme in International Museums Studies at Museion –
Stakeholders, resource and sustainable development
Master’s Dissertation International Museum Studies Museion/Göteborg University Spring term 2004 Author: Guðbrandur Benediktsson Supervisor: Cajsa Lagerkvist
LIST OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1. INTRODUCTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1. Aims and objectives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2. Theoretical approaches and sources. . . . . . . . . .
2 3 5 5
2. TERMS AND DEFINITIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.1. What is a museum? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.2. What is tourism? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3. MUSEUMS AND CULTURAL TOURISM. . . . . . . . . . 16 3.1. Stakeholders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3.2. The resource. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 3.3. Sustainable development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 3.4. Cooperation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 4. CASE STUDIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.1. Göteborgs Stadsmuseum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.2. Reykjavik Museum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3. Comparison on GSM and RM. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.4. SWOT-analysis regarding the museums and tourism. 5. CONCLUSION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6. BIBLIOGRAPHY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . APPENDIX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 34 37 40 43 47 50 60
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FOREWORD
The work on this dissertation has taken almost one year, the origin of the idea can be traced back to June 2003 and later that summer I began my work as an intern at Göteborgs Stadsmuseum, focusing on the museum’s relationship with tourism. The more I got acquainted to the subject, the more interesting I found it and with the support from Cajsa Lagerkvist, my supervisor in The Master’s Programme in International Museums Studies at Museion –
Bibliography: iv) Informal interviews - focus groups Interviews with 9 tourist at RM – from England and USA. April 30. 2004. Interviews with 12 visitors at GSM – people from Iceland living in Göteborg. Octorber 11. 2003.