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Museums in the Modern World

Museums have changed. They are no longer placesfor the privileged few or for bored vacationers to visit on rainy days. Actionand democracy are words used in descriptions of museums now.

At a science museum in Ontario， Canada， you can feel your hair stand on endas harmless electricity passes through your body. At the Metropolitan Museum ofArt in New York City， you can look at 17th centuryinstruments while listening to their music. At the Modern Museum in Sweden， you can put on costumes provided by the Stockholm Opera. As theseexamples show， museums are reaching out to newaudiences， particularly the young， the poor， and the less educated members ofthe population. As a result， attendance is increasing.

More and more， museumsdirectors are realizing that people learn best when they can somehow become partof what they are seeing. In many science museums， forexample， there are no guided tours. The visitor isencouraged to touch， listen， operate， and experiment so as to discover scientificprinciples for himself. He can have the experience of operating a spaceship ora computer. He can experiment with glass blowing and paper making. The purposeis not only to provide fun but also to help people feel at home in the world ofscience. The theory is that people who do not understand science will probablyfear it， and those who fear science will not use it tobest advantage. Many museums now provide educational services and children sdepartments. In addition to the usual displays， theyalso offer film showings and dance programs. Instead of being places that one “should” visit， theyare places to enjoy.

One cause of all these changes is the increasein wealth and leisure time. Another cause is the rising percentage of youngpeople in the population. Many of these young people are college students orcollege graduates. They are better educated than their parents. They see thingsin a new and different way. They are not content to stand and look at works ofare； they want art they can participate in. The same istrue of science and history. In the US， certain groupswho formerly were too poor to care about anything beyond the basic needs ofdaily life are now becoming curious about the world around them. The youngpeople in these groups， like young people in general， have benefited from a better education than their parents received.All these groups， and the rest of the population aswell， have been influenced by television， which has taught them about other places and other times.

The effect of all this has been to changeexisting museums and to encourage the building of new ones. In the US andCanada alone， there are now more than 6，000 museums， almost twice as many as therewere 25 years ago. About half of them are devoted to history， and the rest are evenly divided between the arts and sciences. Thenumber of visitors， according to the AmericanAssociation of museums， has risen to more than 700million a year.

In fact， the crowds ofvisitors at some museums are creating a major problem. Admission to museums hasalways been either free or very inexpensive， but nowsome museums are charging entrance fees for the first time or raising theirprices. Even when raised， however， entrance fees are generally too low to support a museum， with its usually large building and its highly trained staff.

1. Paragraph 2________.

2. Paragraph 3________.

3. Paragraph 4________.

4. Paragraph 5________.

A Causes of changes

B Increasing number of museums and visitors

C Museums getting closer to more spectators

D Movies shown in museums

E New notions about the management of museumsFPlaces to visit

5. Now museums are no longer restricted to theprivileged few， but________.

6. With the development of society， people， especially the young people， _________.

7. To meet the needs of society， more museums________.

8. Two major problems for museums are that theyhave too many visitors and they ________.

A have higher demands of museums

B are open to more people with different socialbackground

C to lengthen their opening hours

D charge too little for admission

E have been built and open to public

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