▶ Your Answer : There are some people who believe that going to museums is not a best way of getting to know a country. However, I personally think that visiting museums has more advantages than any other methods for two subsequent reasons. First, the museum shows a collection of representative artifacts of a country and makes us understand the country easily. Secondly, it can save time and cost significantly. To begin with, thet museum breifly shows the country by its treasure and paintings. To be specific, the artifacts in the museum can tell us the overall history culture and people of a specific country. By looknig at the exhibition and reading the explanatory texts below, we can learn important and interesting feaures of the country. I can explain with my personal experience. I have been to the exhibition of Japanese paintings in National Museum recently. By visiting all the sections of each historical periods of art, I could understand not only how their art has been changed through extensive time but also how their history was alike to our and what Japanese people mainly think in reality. Through this visit, I could develope my knowledge about Japan more. On top of that, going to museum is the most effective way to learn about a country in terms of time and cost. Considering other ways such as tour, lecture, and reading books, visiting museum provides enormous amount of information about a country given that it only takes about three hours of time with comparatively cheap price for entrance. According to the research of YoungEdu Institue, it is turned out that visiting education is the most effective way among a variety of methods. They examined each way by letting each high school student to test them. They measured total expense of each way and took a test which asks facts about a country. As a result, the student who visited museum scored same to the other student who traveled abroad while spending ten percent of expense of traveling. Also, he scored higher than the one who read a book about thet country and spend equivalent amount of money. It shows that visiting museums is the optimal way to know a country. To sum up, visiting museums is better than any other way because of exhibitions with brief explanation of a country and the effectiveness in regard to time spending and money expense. In this regard, I believe that going to museums is the best way to learn about a country. |