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Some people might think that going to the museum is the best way that we can learn about a country, because there are many arts and artifacts related to the country. However, in my opinion, I believe it is hard to say that it is the best way we should seek for, when we want to know about a country. I have two reasons for my assertion. First, the museum does not contain intangible cultural heritage of the country. Second, it can only show the history of the country.
First and foremost, we cannot find every important cultural legacy in the museum. This is because, the museum can only hold tangible arts and artifacts. However, there still exists many invisible cultural sources that we should know to understand the country, such as foods, music and language. For example, about two years ago, I had a chance to meet with a famous traveler in person. At that time, what she put emphasis on was that if people really wanted to have a thorough understanding of a country, people should experience many things in person including tasting traditional foods, meeting its people or sleeping at its conventional style house.
On the top of that, museum cannot show the present of a country. To be specific, when we go to the museum, what we can see is only the collection of relics that people in the country made use in the past. Although, it is capable of representing how people live long time ago, it can be meaningless to people who want to know what is happening in the country at this moment. According to a survey conducted by the National Korean Travel Agency, the foreign visitors were surveyed, when they went back to their own countries. One question was about what point they were very sorry for during the travel. The most frequent answer was that they could not see dynamics of Korea in person and how Korean people live right now. If they had the chance to visit places such as markets or famous city square, they would not have felt like that.
In conclusion, as stated above, we can think of two disadvantages of visiting the museum when we would like to learn about a country. First, we cannot see or go through intangible cultures such as cuisines or music in the museum. Second, what we can know about a country is restricted to the past of the country. For these reasons, I strongly argue that visiting the museum cannot be the perfect way to learn about a country.
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