A Museum's End

Some people might think that museums are boring and are a waste of time, but they really aren't. If you go to a museum with bad expectations, at the end of thev visit, you views will change.In the Duncan article, she talks about a ritual's experience is to have a purpose, or an end. After, visiting a museum, the beneficial outcomes of musuems are compared to outcomes of traditional, religious rituals. When people peform some religious rituals, they are trying to seek obtain some sort of education out of it. Duncan explains that at the end of visiting a museum (museum ritual), the "visitors come away with a sense of enlightenment, or a feeling of having been spiritually nourished or resotred" (Duncan 479). Something unexpected will happen during your visit, and you will discover so many interesting things that it will be on your mind later after the visit. That's why so many people go to museums.

My experience is that I've always found something worth while in a museum. Everything in a museum is fascinating, even if the objects in the museum aren't aesthetically pleasing to look at. I really don't know when the last time I went to a museum, not including the High Museum. The Prado Museum in Spain is one art museum that I would love to go to because of the Spainish art.