As the world is becoming globalize in a rapid speed, many people want to know about other countries. Even though the typical way to learn the different culture is visiting a museum, it is a hard way to learn people's real lives. It is because the cultures and people's life styles are rapidly changing, and you can't experience the culture in a museum.
To begin with, as technology is developed, people's lifestyles are changed. However, a museum tends to display the historical objects, so it is very hard for people to learn about the recent cultures of other countries. For instance, when I was a junior in high school, I went on field trip to the France museum in the history club. In fact, the reason why I signed up for this trip was to talk with my France exchanged student about her country, so I took all the notes in the museum for our conversation. However, when I talked about the notes with her, she didn't even know what I was talking about. She said that the information I had was about 100 years ago, and it is not existing in France anymore.
In addition, people can't actually experience the culture by visiting a museum. Although, they can look up the objects that the people used to use, they can't apply to their lives with objects. The old said that experiencing the culture one time is much better than reading about it for a thousand times. My personal experience also supports this statement. Before I became an exchanged student in America, I wanted to know about the culture of U.S.A. so I went to the museum and felt confident to face the different culture. However, as I live in America and face the different culture, I realize that I was totally wrong. There were all kinds of cultures that I didnt' know about. Thus, needless to say, I learned so many things by experiencing them in America than visting museum many times.
On the whole, visting museum is very good for the educational purpose, but if you truely want to learn about the other cultures, it is not the best way because all the countries change rapidly, and people can't get the opportunity of experience of other countries in a museum. In this sense, visting a museum is not the best way to learn about the other countries. |