why people visit museums
...hen people go to a museum their general knowledge increase so much, and it help to pass their knowledge for other people. For instance, people go abroad visit a museum, and come back to their home country, and after that they usually tell to their friends what they saw and learn in the travel. In this way people pass though their culture to other people that learn about a place that they never visited. When people visit a museum in a new place, they may find new interests from visiting that place. It is not only to see or to know what the place was like before, but also to find what new interests lie in wait of discovery. For example people find out other mediums used to make an art work in a museum; clay is a common medium used by Africans for most of their works. Probably people who visit African museums learn how to use clay for their own art work. That is a new interest. People go to museum for trade. Most of the art works that we see these days are worth thousands and millions of dollars. Rich collectors of art work usually go to museums to purchase art works and artists also go there to sell their work for a living. Another reason people can walk into a museum can be to criticize and learn from other people. Certainly one of the people that will visit a museum would be an artist, a painter, a sculptor. It is said that inspiration comes within. But I believe that other pe...