REALITY AND CHALLENGES OF PRIVATE MUSEUM: A CASE STUDY – LASTORIA MUSEUM .. MADABA GOVERNORATE

Document Type : Original Article

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Department of Tourist Management, Middle East University, Jordan

Abstract

The study aimed at understanding the time developments that heritage tourism passed by in Jordan, and concentration on the significance of the popular inheritance by procedures and haste solutions adopting the process of conservation and supporting any trend towards establishing centres and museums to document the popular heritage. And surmounting the legislative and organizational handicaps of the museums and private heritage houses, and enhancing efforts of the specializing governmental parties in the domain of concern with the sector of antiquities and museums, and seeking to enlist museums and heritage houses with all their types within the strategy of the world tourism, and assert considering it a basic partner in factors of tourist attraction, and empower the responsible for it from employing it economically, in addition to developing the cultural tourism and rising the heritage and the Jordan cultural identify, locally, regionally and universally and motivating the private and public sector to bear some of responsibility in conserving the heritage. Results of study had shown the dimension of comparing the general frame of the model of each of the public and private museums, existence of lack at work in the domain of popular heritage in Jordan in general, in addition to absence of the governmental parties support of the private museums, and non-existence of initiatives to direct the individual activities performed by individuals of the community aiming at tourist investing and supporting the national economy.

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