Abstract
Museums provide an excellent teaching site for higher education and a visitor base for higher education students. In Hungary, however, there is typically a low amount of university-museum cooperation at the institutional level, and a low proportion of university students visit museums. Szeged, Hungary (the third largest town in Hungary near the Serbian border) has an active museum scene and a large university. Therefore, we conducted a questionnaire survey among students at the University of Szeged to find out what kind of museum image they have, how often they visit museums, and whether they use museums during their studies. We surveyed Hungarian students, students with dual Hungarian cityzenship, and international students. In this presentation, we examine the attitudes of students with dual Hungarian citizenship towards museums. The vast majority of this group are dual Hungarian citizens from Serbia, so we were able to study a group from a minority background. The results show that they do not tend to visit museums frequently and are less familiar with university-organized museum programs. They also do not make much use of the opportunities offered by museums in their studies.
Presenters
Anita HegedusAssistant Lecturer, Department of Communication and Media Studies, University of Szeged, Hungary
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
University Students, Museum Consumption, Dual Cityzenship, Higher Education
