Reviewing The Experiences of Culinary Museum Visitors: Emine Göğüş Culinary Museum Example

Abstract

In this study, the experiences of the visitors to Turkey’s first culinary museum, Emine Göğüş Culinary Museum have been reviewed. In Tripadvisor.com website, visitor comments made during the April 2012-August 2017 period have been reviewed by content analysis method. It has been observed that following the analysis, experiences of the culinary museum visitors have been categorized into five themes, education, esthetics, escapism, historic evoking and the experience with staff. It has been reported that visitors were mostly impressed with the educational experience, as their trip showed them there were different dishes they did not know about in the region. At the end of the study, recommendations towards museum directors and planners have been developed.