Consuming dark sites via street art: Murals at Chernobyl

This paper aims to extend dark tourism scholarship concerned with existential aspects of the human nature and power ‘dark places’ provoke our thinking about meaning purpose existence. Our main focus is on artistic expressions in form murals that have emerged years following nuclear disaster Chernobyl, questioning significance meanings they for Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, context tourists' perceptions and, more generally, being world. To end, we deconstruct tourist experience sites through knitting together tourism, existentialism street art.