Sunday, November 2, 2008

Why the people visit museums?

The man is curious for nature, the man’s passion to discover and know stuff is like an instinct, we enjoy knowing and meeting new things. When we go to a place we have not visit before we feel curiosity to know all about that place, the culture, the art, the great artists, the fashion style, everything that we could identify about it. For instance we are going to Italy on vacations: I think when we go to Italy is not only to go shopping and go to the movies, we know that Italy is a country full of culture, tradition, customs and ethnicity, I am sure that all people that visit Italy for tourism will go to a museum to see the art and everything that they can find about the country behind that great culture.

When we go to a museum we can find a lot of things that tell us something about the place we are in. I think other reason for people to go to museums is to get to know something about the history and traditions which are part of the past of the country or city, in that way the tourist can learn something and understand why the festivals and holidays of the native people.

An illustration of that situation could be in our country Colombia, the museum that can show us the past of our culture, “El Museo Del Oro”, which was built specially to give us an idea about the older cultures, the different tribes, the art they made with gold, clay and mud, the traditions, our history, the independence, the colony, the conquest, the wars and all the events that left a memory in the olden times of our country. The tourist can go to “El Museo Del Oro” and find a lot of things related with our past, since pieces of clay and gold art, to weapons that our ancestors used to fight for our independence.

The museums are fascinating; we can find a lot of interesting things there. In a good museum we can find since modern paintings and pictures, to old pieces revealing the most traditional history of the place.

Finally, I conclude that people who visit museums, do it because they are interested in knowing new things and enjoy seeing stuff associated to the history of the place they are visiting. On the other hand, the people can enjoy the new and the older art, in the same place. The museums enrich the mind in a very exciting mixture of art and knowledge.

3 comments:

carlos consuegra said...

Some people think museums are not really importants, but I think there is where all our history can be founde, so thats why I consider they are really an important part of a society

3l LoK0 said...

I think the people don´t really care the topic of museums, but a think the museum is and institution for a modern society.

Cesar Ballesteros.

Suzanne said...

I think the museum in a city is very interesting because you can find art and culture collected as part of our history that entertain and also allow learn.