The Rural Open Air Museums: Visitors, Community and Place

Pawlikowska-Piechotka Anna (), Łukasik Natalia (), Ostrowska – Tryzno Anna () and Sawicka Karolina ()
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Pawlikowska-Piechotka Anna: PhD Eng. Architect, Associate Prof., Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Faculty of Tourism and Recreation, 00-968 Warszawa, Poland, 34 Marymoncka Street; Associate Prof., Warsaw Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, 00-659 Warszawa, Poland, 55 Koszykowa Street; T: 48 22 839 02 78
Łukasik Natalia: MSc, BSc, Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Faculty of Tourism and Recreation, 00-968 Warszawa, Poland, 34 Marymoncka Street.
Ostrowska – Tryzno Anna: PhD, Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw, Faculty of Tourism and Recreation, 00-968 Warszawa, Poland, 34 Marymoncka Street
Sawicka Karolina: PhD, Faculty of Tourism and Recreation University of Tourism and General Languages Warsaw, 00-999 Warszawa Poland, 38 Prymasa Tysiaclecia Street; Wilanów Palace Museum in Warsaw, 02-958 Warszawa, Poland, 10/16 Stanisława Kostki Potockiego Street

European Countryside, 2015, vol. 7, issue 4, 195-214

Abstract: Contemporary rural museums perform not only the traditional tasks but are also the places where both the visitors and the local community members have chances for entertainment and attractive leisure time. Consequently one can find in museums numerous catering offers such as cafes, bistros, snack bars, restaurants, pubs and wine bars. The material presented is the result of theoretical and field studies carried out in the selected open air museums in Poland and focused on newly introduced commercial activities (as catering). Our research results show that the development of sustainable cultural tourism as a generator of income in the open air rural museums is important in the challenging economic time. Museums having catering services of different character could easier overcome financial struggle. Moreover there is no doubt that the introduction of an interesting and ambitious cuisine in the restaurants located in the rural open air museum is of great importance also in other terms: popularization of the food culture, rural tradition of region, healthy diet and lifestyle, chance to increase the museum attractiveness, important economic support to the museum and the local community and the improvement of living quality.

Keywords: rural culture; open air museum; skansen; traditional food; visitors’ services (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1515/euco-2015-0014

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