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Dark Tourism - Prisons

Collected by: University of Michigan, School of Information

Archived since: Mar, 2013

Description:

The Dark Tourism Collection archives websites on the phenomenon called “dark tourism.” Our goal for this collection is to enable exploration of the motivations behind the creation of dark tourism sites, as well as reasons for visiting them. The initial foci of the Dark Tourism Collection is prison sites from the late 19th to 20th century.

Subject:   Society & Culture prisons tourism tourism--research

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Title: Villa Grimaldi | Corporación Parque por la Paz Villa Grimaldi

URL: http://villagrimaldi.cl/

Description: The official site of the Villa Grimaldi Parque por la Paz. It was the site of internment and torture during General Pinochet's Dirty War. It has been reconstructed as a site of memory and remembrance La Corporación Parque por la Paz Villa Grimaldi fue constituida el 13 de julio de 1996, como una entidad privada sin fines de lucro y que, por Decreto Exento N° 170 del 17 de marzo de 2005 del Ministerio de Bienes Nacionales, es la encargada de gestionar y poner en valor el sitio patrimonial Parque por la Paz Villa Grimaldi, ex “Cuartel Terranova”. Su quehacer se orienta fundamentalmente a la promoción y defensa de los Derechos Humanos al interior de la sociedad chilena.

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Subject:   prisons tourism--research tourism Villa Grimaldi (Santiago, Chile) Santiago (Chile)--History--20th century.

Title: Eastern State Penitentiary

URL: http://www.easternstate.org/

Description: Eastern State Penitentiary website is part of the Dark Tourism Collection that archives websites on the phenomenon called “dark tourism.” Our goal for this collection is to enable exploration of the motivations behind the creation of dark tourism sites, as well as reasons for visiting them. The initial foci of the Dark Tourism Collection is prison sites from the late 19th to 20th century.

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Subject:   prisons tourism tourism--research Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Title: Robben Island Museum

URL: http://www.robben-island.org.za/

Description: From the 17th to the 20th centuries, Robben Island served as a place of banishment, isolation and imprisonment. Today it is a World Heritage Site and museum, a poignant reminder to the newly democratic South Africa of the price paid for freedom.

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Subject:   prisons tourism tourism--research Robbeneiland Robben Island Museum Robben Island (South Africa)

Title: Seodaemun Prison History Hall

URL: http://www.sscmc.or.kr/culture2/foreign/eng/eng01.html

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Subject:   prison tourism tourism--research Seoul Korea

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