Museums are ones of the most popular places for tourists to visit when they travel a foreign country. Although some people do not agree to this claim because they think that museums are just full of old fassioned paintings and sculptures, it is certain that many tourists have still visited museums day by days. Thus there are some obvious reasons for them to visit museums.
To begin with, Most of people visiting museums will answer that question like this ; "I want to learn the social and cultural history of this country". Certainly it is a better way to face the foreign culture in a limited time than reading books concerned with the country or watching documentary programs about it. To be specific, I had an experience to visit the Louvre museum when I stayed in Paris during the summer vacation. It was a great chance to meet a varieties of paintings and sculptures from ancient time to comtemporary ages. Especially I was impressed of a painting which depicts Jeanne d'Arc and French Revolution vividly. It reminded me of the french movements for freedom, equity and philanthrophy that I had learned only in the textbook before. So we can learn their history with reality through the paintings in museums.
Additionally, people can take a pleasure visiting special purpose museums which are suitable for their individual tastes. For instance, I am always looking for museums related in cars because I studied designing of cars. When I traveled to Japan I went to Honda museum apart from my collegues because they were not interested in cars and motorcycles. I have thought that I can enjoy watching a well shaped car no more because design cars is my work. However I obtained a new viewpoint to see a car and good ideas to develop my work at that time. New cars of Honda followed the principle faithfully, 'the more comfortable inside and the more stable outside'. visiting museums with specific purpose will help people to take a opportunity for their developments.
Considering all these reasons, it is evident to recognize that visiting museums is a good choice for tourists. People can be closer not only to foreign culture but also to history of the country by skinning the paintings. Moreover visiting museums aimed to a specific themes like cars, wine, flower will add a great deal of pleasure to the trip. Most of countries or cities well known for sight seeing has commonly kept many museums for these reasons. |