MUSEUM ACTIVITIES AND TOURIST OFFER BASED ON ETHNOLOGICAL COLLECTION IN MOŠČENICE

Abstract

The author first points to the basic trends in the development of tourism and confronts them with local culture which is usually, in the process of acculturalization which is unavoidable because of frequent contacts of local population and tourists, unsuitably presented and even deformed. This also happens because of insufficient investment in protection, preservation and presentation of cultural monuments; in the situation under examination tourist economy is expected to invest in culture, as it is one of the motives of tourists for coming to a certain place. However, both programmes and working methods of museums and museum exibitions have to be adjusted to such purposes by close cooperation with local population which should be included in some working programmes of museums. In that way a museum could become a living organism which can offer to foreign visitors a more complete information and an opportunity to participate, and not only exibits out of context. Museum collection (e.g. the Moščenice ethnographic collection) could become a link between the local and foreign culture, trying to create conditions for valuable and complex exchange.