Are Museums Necessary?

In this new age we live in where we can get anything by the click of a button, museums seem like the most ancient method of gathering information. Children can travel to Africa without leaving their bedroom, go to the bottom of the ocean and back with the simple typing of a couple of words. But are we really learning? Getting inspired? Appreciating our past? THINKING? We seem to have succumbed to a state of doing everything mechanically.

Museums offer us the opportunity to grasp our history and get an idea of what our future might be like. The feelings you get the inspiration of knowing that there was something before us and imagine what might come after us can only come by coming face to face with the extraordinary creations and relics left by the past.

Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt and many others would not even exist in our minds if it weren't for museums. History should be displayed not only because of its significance, but because of the beauty it stows. Museums provide people of all ages that hands-on learning that not many places offer.

Where would many of our great architects, painters, engineers be today if someone hadn't had the idea to study and preserve everything that a museum holds?

It is important to also know that museums not only hold artifacts and paintings from the past but they also make known all the talented creations made by people who we live with today. They (museums) make accessible to the public things that we only see on TV or read of in books; Outer space, science, art, architecture, sculptures, etc.

Some people may argue that we have to preserve our treasures so they don't get deteriorated, but if I were one of the artist from the 19th century I would be proud to know that my works of art where available to the public for so many years. The technology we have must be put to good use and help keep intact (or try) all the work that we encounter in museums.

So, all in all museums bring us many different experiences, memories, inspiration, and that feeling of bettering ourselves every day. Is there any other place that offers so much?

We have to learn the value of our past, present, and future cultures. Educate the minds of today as we have done the past ones and leave everything for generations to come.

Museums should prevail for the enrichment of the human mind, the constant necessity of finding answers and trying to explain to ourselves everything that has happened in the world and will happen.