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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: 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)

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