Education in Open-air Museums in Research Studies of Visitors to the Wielkopolski Ethnographic Park in Dziekanowice

The article presents results of a study regarding visitors to the Wielkopolski Ethnographic Park in Dziekanowice. 319 people were interviewed in the questionnaire. The questions concerned the reasons for the visit, interests in the exhibition and sources of information. A quiz testing the knowledge acquired through visiting the museum was also carried out. The data analysis included differential tests between groups (on motives, interests and knowledge in relation to social-demographic features) and a cluster analysis of tourists visiting the museum. A number of subjective and objective factors were identified which determine the knowledge acquired during the visit to the museum. They included the exhibition arrangement, ways of interpreting the heritage used to transfer knowledge and the type of visiting group.

Marek Nowacki