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Overview
In this paper an attempt is made to identify problems concerning the effectiveness of museum communications with regard to foreign tourists to the United Kingdom speaking other than English as a first language. Issues concerning such visitors are raised; the outcome of research conducted in seven London Museums regarding provisions made in foreign languages will be presented and the outcome of a survey of sixty foreign visitors whose first language was not English will be reported. I conclude with suggestions of how the situation for ‘linguistically challenged’ tourist visitors to British museums could be improved. The terms ‘foreign tourists’ and ‘foreign visitors’ as used below identify tourists who do not have English as their first language.
This paper reports work for a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillmentof the requirements of the MA in Museum Studies degree at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, in 1996.
This paper reports work for a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillmentof the requirements of the MA in Museum Studies degree at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, in 1996.
Notes
This paper reports work for a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillmentof the requirements of the MA in Museum Studies degree at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, in 1996.