Panoramic museum visits as cultural recreation activities: Panorama 1453 History Museum example

Abstract

Museums have moved to a different dimension as a result of the development of revolutionary new insights in classical collection exhibitions and the use of new technologies, with the understanding of Post-Modern Museology. Panorama museums, which are developing as three-dimensional storytelling models of history museums and becoming increasingly common, are museums of different designs due to their exhibition conditions with their 360-degree panoramic painting art. Panorama museums are innovative museums open to technology and interactive platforms that provide visitors with one-to-one interactive experience. Museums, as a recreational activity, are also among the points of visit for cultural purposes. Especially with its architectural features and designs, it gives visitors the impression of living that moment in a historical film, giving them a completely different world feeling. Based on this, in the study, the visitor experiences of the “Panorama 1453 History Museum” on the TripAdvisor site were examined. The universe of the research consists of 473 comments made by people who visited the museum between December 2011 and August 2020. The sample of the research, on the other hand, consists of the first 141 visitor comments. The remaining 232 comments were not included in the study because they consist of the comments made to the first posts. A total of 795 encodings were made in the research. In the research, it was found that the visitors were satisfied with the panorama museum visits as a recreational activity, it contributed to the learning of history and culture, they also experienced a historical journey and found it interesting and impressive. In the conclusion part of the research, suggestions were made in terms of both academic and sectoral aspects.