Monday 19 October 2015

Why do you think people visit museums?

TOEFL Essay 21 with model answer:

Read the question below. You have 30 minutes to plan, write, and revise your essay. You should write at lease 300 words.

 

Many people visit museums when they travel to new places. Why do you think people visit museums?


Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Model Answer:
Museums are the places where the relics and other historical and famous significances of any specific locality or geographical locations are stored to let people know about the past histories and traditions. Museums are the greatest source of receiving knowledge about any place within the shortest possible time and mostly they are entertaining as well.

When people go to a new place, by their natural curiosity they want to know about the history of the area and locality. If they start asking about the histories, they may not get the right answers and even the people of the location may not also provide the necessary supports in revealing the histories. Besides, museums educate people. Not only the historical elements are preserved in a museum, rather different study areas and research works are also exhibited in a museum as part of its expanding education and knowledge among the visitors.  The museum galleries turn into a live classroom for the visitors and they receive knowledge in an unconventional form.

Since there are different types of museums, the visitors become completely aware of the different issues. For instance, if the museum is about painting, the visitors will be able to know about painters of different eras and also would be aware of their painting themes. On the other hand, if the museum is related to science and inventions, the visitors will see different inventions of science and get familiar with the scientists too in a standard manner.

If the museum is about the culture of any location or nation, the past relics stored on the galleries allow the visitors to imagine the past days. Scenarios of past days become live before the visitors’ eyes, and they start imagining - how the days were, how people lived and about their customs and rituals. People mostly visit the foreign countries for entertainment and some other specific purposes. When the tour is for entertainment only, they visit the available and adjacent museums to know about the country. There are few museums which have all forms of galleries to make people aware of everything the country has or planning to prepare.

Additionally, museums inspire people to adopt newer practices and customs. When an individual observes something new in a museum during the travel, s/ he tries to adopt the specific feature in their daily lives and by this way, museums are inspiring the visitors in improving their livelihoods.

Therefore, it is a must for the tourist to pay a visit to the museums during their travel in foreign countries.

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