Do you love visiting museums? Today, museums around the world are holding"Slow Art Day"in order to1 their visitors to take their time and enjoy art more deeply.
This is a fast world2 the Internet is a huge and busy place. There are millions of websites for people to choose from. Research has shown that a person usually spends 15 seconds on a website3 moving on to other things.
You might4 people to slow down when they're in museums full of great art. But you are5 . Several studies have shown that the most common amount of time for people to spend on a piece of art is6 ten seconds. And in that7 time, the visitors are doing8 else taking photos of themselves!
In recent years, museums have been working to9 that. Over 170museums around the world are10 "Slow Art Day". They are asking their11 to spend at least 5 to 10 minutes on each piece of art. They12 that people will enjoy art more if they spend more time studying it. 13 , people are able to notice more details. Studying a piece of art for more time can also let people14 what the artist went through to create the work.
Besides offering art to visitors, some museums also offer chances to people to share their15 and talk about the art afterward.
Summer Programs at Museums | |
The Postal Museum Date: July 17-23 Age: 11-13 Would you like to join us this summer vacation? You can create a stamp with your own design. Write and mail a postcard, and learn about the history of stamps. Tel: 965-0400 | The Air and Space Museum Date: July 29-30 Age: 8-11 If you enjoy programs about air and space, please come here. It's a good place to make and fly your own paper airplane, watch an IMAX movie, and climb into a real airplane. Tel: 651-0930 |
The Science Museum Date: August 7-20 Age: 9-12 You can experience video arts and computer technology, play VR games to explore a future city, and ask the robots questions about science. It will be wonderful! Have fun! Tel: 357-3030 | The Building Museum Date: August 21-27 Age: 13-15 Want to enjoy design challenges? Come and join us. You can also go on field trips to some famous buildings, and build small houses with soft blocks. All the programs are free. Tel: 272-0560 |
Buy a ticket to the Disgusting Food Museum in Sweden, and you'll find it is not printed on a piece of paper.
"Instead, it is a vomit(呕吐物) bag with our logo, "said Samuel West, who set up the museum. It was a joke. But it sounds reasonable in some ways. Inside the museum, the foods with some of the world's most terrible smells are on display. Walking around in it, someone may want to vomit.
Yet making people vomit is not West's purpose. "I want people to know that disgust is always in the eyes of the visitors, "said West. "We usually find things we're not familiar with disgusting. " For example, the tree-ant larvae(幼虫) eaten in Mexico, or Stinky Tofu in China.
There are nearly 80 dishes in the museum. They come from Asia, Europe, the United States, South America and so on.
West wants people to know that disgust isn't just about taste or smell. It's also about the way the food is made. In the museum, some foods might taste pretty good, but they are made in a terrible way. Those include French foie gras(鹅肝酱). This dish needs to feed ducks or geese with force.
West hopes that the museum will help people rethink what is delicious food. He also wants to encourage people to try more foods that are environmentally friendly. He suggests people eat less meat, especially beef and pork. Instead, he encourages people to eat smaller animals.
There are many beach towns around the coast. We think Balboa has the most fun. It's good to start on Harbor Blvd and drive into Newport Beach. As driving west, you will see many bike rentals and kite shops.
In winter, driving to the Balboa Pier area, you need to turn right at the traffic light, and there is a parking lot. Then walk there and read the sign. It provides some information about the history of the area.
Next, when you leave the parking lot, turn right at the traffic light. Keep to the right at the Y, no matter how many roads you see like this shape. Park when you see a stop sign. Walk to your right along the coast above the rocks and watch the waves, which come in from three different directions.
When you continue your trip, watch for the sign. This will take you to the Balboa ferry(渡船). The cost is small and the ferry takes you to Balboa Island. You can drive around the island.
"The past is a different country; they do things differently there, "L. P. Hartley wrote in one of his best-known novels, The Go-Between. To the British novelist, the past was not closely connected. And one of my Chinese students once told me, "I have no interest in the past. I'm only interested in the present and the future. "I have to disagree. The"past"is a very interesting country, and the more we know about it, the more we will be able to understand the present and in this way, prepare ourselves for the future.
An ideal place, as I see it, that can allow us to look back on the past is the museum. I prefer to visit museums as if you are sitting in the same room with some of the greatest men in history. While no museums can make sure to offer a complete picture of human history, the lessons we can learn from the events and wonders of the past are of great value.
Thanks to modern technology, museums are being turned from placesof looking and learning to spaces for people to really take part in. A large number of multi-media(多媒体) shows, which allow visitors to keep their interest in its exhibits during their visit, play a big part at the Shanghai Natural History Museum.
The rise in technology has also made museums more reachable than ever. Since the outbreak of pandemic, traditional museums have started to think outside of the box in order to create new ways for visitors to experience their collections online. It is surely good news for those who are crazy about museums but have difficulty actually going there. However, you shouldn't expect to get the same experience that an in-person visit would provide, at least, that is, for now.
International Museum Day is on May 18 every year. This is a quick reminder that you should always spare some time to visit museums and enjoy the "must-see" things that are an important part of the cultural heritage(遗产) of humankind.
