Mapping the olfactory mindscape in museums: a grounded theory investigation into smellscape perception and its impact on cultural tourism experience
Xi Ling & Menlixue Cheng
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1776370CLM-MUSEUM-001 · VERIFIED
The smellscape of an ethnographic museum was documented through participatory smell walks and a survey with 120 visitors and follow-up interviews with 30 of them, describing how visitors detected, associated and evaluated its odours.
One ethnographic museum in China, studied from a tourism perspective; it does not characterise a general museum smell chemically.
The statement the claim rests on was found word for word in the abstract fetched from the named service, and an editor read the full abstract against every part of the claim. Abstract from Europe PMC (ebi.ac.uk/europepmc), check run 36955913407.
active · reviewed 2026-10-02 · corrections 0
Xi Ling & Menlixue Cheng
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1776370Permanent identifier smellbook:claim:a-documented-museum-smellscape · Graph record (JSON)
Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since Strategy Phase 349.