本文分析了一定数量的国内外博物馆旅游相关文献,对博物馆旅游及其相关研究进行了分类比较阐述,发现国外博物馆与城市、社区、遗产旅游的融合是社会发展的趋势,几者之间相互促进,为双方带来了新的发展机会,促进了博物馆旅游研究的发展,对研究博物馆旅游及其作为城市旅游的重要载体具有一定的借鉴作用。我国博物馆旅游资源丰富,开始注重博物馆概念的泛化,出现了"生态博物馆"、"开放式博物馆"、"活态博物馆"等一系列的专题研究,可见,国内博物馆旅游开发领域正在不断拓展,要以发展的、创新的理念来开发国内博物馆旅游。

The international museum association defines the museum in 1989, and points out that it is for the public open, for the social service and non-profit permanent mechanism. It collects, protects, transmits and displays the human environment's material evidence for the purpose of the education, research and entertainment. The museum includes not only science and natural class museum, site class museum, art museum, ecological museum, but also exhibition center and art gallery and so on. With the development of urban tourism, the tourism function of museum is increasingly prominent, and gradually become a important carrier of showing city's unique history and culture, improve city's culture tourism's attraction, at the same time, museum as a high quality of culture tourism resources complied with the trend of the development of culture tourism. This paper made the classification and comparative statement about the museum tourism and related research, according by the domestic and foreign related museum tourism literature retrieval and analysis, find foreign museum and city, community, the fusion of heritage tourism is the trend of the development of the society, they are promote each other, for the two sides bring new development opportunities, and promote the museum tourism research development, to research the museum tourism and as an important carrier of urban tourism has certain reference. Museum tourism resources in China are rich. We begin to pay attention to the museum concept generalization, has emerged "ecological museum", "living state museum" and so on, it breaks the traditional museum development mode and operation mode, makes the ecological environment, site remains, historical scenic spots, historical block development, and becomes a kind of culture-centered, possessing leisure, entertainment, participation, experience and other modern tourism function and multiple profit comprehensive scenic spot.