Panorama Konya Museum From The Tourist Guides’ Point of View

Abstract

Panorama museums, the first examples of which are seen worldwide beginning from the 19th century, brought a new dimension to the concept of museology. Panoramas vary with the themes they choose, the countries they are located in, their structural features, and the social messages they want to convey. Panorama Konya Museum is an important museum that depicts the 13th century Konya and Hz Mevlana. In this research, Panorama Konya Museum is evaluated with the perspectives of tourist guides. First of all, the contributions of Panorama Konya Museum to tourism as a tourism destination, to the transfer of history and culture are discussed and information about the historical scenes in the visuals is given. In the study, in which a qualitative method was adopted, case samplingwas used, and the information obtained from the thirty tourist guides participating in the study was analyzed by a content analysis method. Tourist guides’ views on the audience the museum adheres to, the information about the museum in the virtual environment, the value the museum adds to Konya, its value as investment, its role in the transfer of history and culture and its effects on visitors, the works of the museum management, the direction and information boards of the museum and the approach of the museum staff to tourists were all analyzed. The tendencies and reasons of the tourist groups to visit the museum, the positive and negative aspects of the museum, whether the guides would like to include the museum in their future tour programs and whether they received such requests from the visitors were investigated by interviewing the tourist guides.