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Research projects 


Taking as its starting point the regional development of tourism, the Touriseum investigates the cultural history of tourism as a global phenomenon from the point of view of both visitors and locals.

Behind the scenes

Life and work in the hotels of Southern Tyrol/South Tyrol between 1880 and 1939


In the context of a research project that ran from 2017 to 2020, the Touriseum investigated the living conditions and everyday work of management and employees of hotels in Southern Tyrol/South Tyrol, taken as a microcosm in order to provide a comprehensive look behind the scenes of the industry between 1880 and around 1939 – a time when tourism was still in its infancy.

As part of the research project, an international conference was held at the Touriseum in 2018. The proceedings of the conference have been published in the Touriseum's publication series "Tourism & Museum".

Archive of contemporary witnesses


In 2013 the Touriseum began to develop an archive of contemporary witnesses to continuously collect and keep tourism-related memories of people’s life stories. For the 2016 season, in its “HOTEL.GENERATIONS.STORIES” audio lounge, the Touriseum played excerpts from the memories of the everyday lives of individual generations in family-run tourist establishments in South Tyrol. A comprehensive analysis of the interviews appears under the title “The Bigger Picture – intergenerationality in family-run tourist businesses in South Tyrol” (German with English abstract) in the sixth volume of the Touriseum’s study series “Tourism & Museum”.

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