Tourists and narration in the Arctic: the changing experience of museums

Johan R. Edelheim; Young-Sook Lee

doi:10.1079/9781780648620.0037

Tourists and narration in the Arctic: the changing experience of museums

Johan R. Edelheim, Young-Sook Lee

Multidimensional Tourism Institute

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Abstract

This chapter investigates a theory known as new museology, which considers how museums are forced to evolve in contemporary societies where data and alternative viewpoints are commonly available and perceived as multiple and concurrent realities. It examines, on one hand, how museums in Arctic Norway and in Finnish Lapland narrate the Arctic and, on the other hand, considers how visitors to these museums are narrating their experiences on travel review websites. The chapter aims to uncover how the separate texts might be valuable sources in filling the potential 'experiential void' that the geographic extreme has created, thus narrating into existence an 'experiential core'.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Arctic tourism experiences
Subtitle of host publication	production, consumption and sustainability
Editors	Young-Sook Lee, David Weaver, Nina Prebensen
Place of Publication	Wallingford, UK
Publisher	CABI
Pages	37-47
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Print)	978-1-78064-862-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1079/9781780648620.0037
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2017
MoEC publication type	A3 Part of a book or another research book

Keywords

arctic regions
museums
social media
tourists
visitor interpretation
visitors
web sites

Field of science

Tourism research

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Tourists and narration in the Arctic: the changing experience of museums. / Edelheim, Johan R.; Lee, Young-Sook.
Arctic tourism experiences: production, consumption and sustainability. ed. / Young-Sook Lee; David Weaver; Nina Prebensen. Wallingford, UK: CABI, 2017. p. 37-47 5.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review

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Tourists and narration in the Arctic: the changing experience of museums

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