The symbolism of the spiritual ritual between the museum display and sustainable tourism development (The Mawlawi Museum is a model)

Document Type : Original Article

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PhD in Anthropology (Heritage and Museums Division) Faculty of Arts - Alexandria University

Abstract

Museums are cultural institutions that aim to preserve human 
heritage in all its forms, and they are concerned with preserving 
this heritage through several means. An overview of the 
collection and display of collectibles in front of visitors has 
developed; To dazzle them in culture and creativity.
We find diversity in the museum collections, and a multiplicity 
of the gym as a symbol of heritage. The heritage bears signs and 
connotations, material and immaterial, that is, it has two 
functions, a visible function and a invisible function.
Researchers in the field of folklore study in museums are trying 
to find a connection and integration between the elements of life 
that are recorded inside their museums, and the information they 
obtain as a result of their continuous research on the nature of 
these materials and their course through history, and perhaps they 
will expose their development to reach the link of 
communication and integration that it is in time. in which it was 
collected.
The choice of the Mawlawiya Museum - on Sioufia Street in the 
Helmeya neighborhood in Old Cairo - came to express an 
immaterial mystical heritage dating back to the Ottoman era. The 
museum side of this presentation is with the tourism development 
side, which emphasizes the need for integration and cooperation 
between state institutions to invest this mystical museum heritage 
with its artistic aesthetics in the field of sustainable tourism 
development, and to attract tourists with clear environmental, 
social and economic dimensions

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