Museum Collections Documentation System and Its Role for Tourism: The Case of National Museum of Ethiopia
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2019-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Nowadays heritage documentation is highly digitalized and standardized. This increases
the attractiveness, descriptiveness and management of heritages; and promotes tourism
industry strongly. However, inmost country’s museums the heritage collations were
documented on traditional documentation structure as some researchers’ points. The
main objective of this study is to assess museum collection documentation system at the
National Museum of Ethiopia and explore the roles of standardized museum collection
documentation for tourism industry and heritage management. The study employed both
qualitative and quantitative research design and applied primary and secondary data
collection tools. Purposive and simple random sampling techniques were used to obtain
data among 139 sampled participants for interviews and questionnaires. Secondary data
were gathered from different published and unpublished literatures. As well, observation
and figures were used to fill the gaps of interviews and questionnaires. Accordingly, the
collected data analyzed on qualitative and quantitative analysis approaches. The major
findings revealed that the National Museum of Ethiopia heritage collections documented
below professional standards; and this gap impacts on: the public, heritage management
and tourism industry. The study also indicated that standardized heritage documentation
gives permanent significance for tourism industry. Therefore, the researcher suggested
the concerned bodies (ARCCH and Ministry of Culture and Tourism) should improve
heritage documentation organizational structure and put in place guidelines and policy
for heritage documentation.
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Museum, Tourism, Museum Collections, Museum Tourism, Standardize Heritage Documentation