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The Role of Museums in Society and Tourism
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The Role of Museums in Society and Tourism Henriette Sultana B.A. Tourism Studies Year 4 Museology Dr. Anthony Pace Introduction "I do not believe in the end of man.... I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he, alone among creatures, has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul, a spirit, capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."1 William Faulkner, "Speech on Acceptance of the Nobel Prize," 1950 In Faulkner's fictional world it is memory that pulls pieces of the past into the present and resurrects the dead. A museum is in its own way a model of memory, for by preserving the past it ensures the future. Like any work of art within it, the museum is an act of faith in the power of the human imagination. In previous days a museum was an academy or a library and even in...
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