Abstract 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.
2012, Vol. 27 
