Why do you think people visit museums? Museums are an amazing place. We can spend hours and hours in a museum and learn a lot about a foreign country or culture. It’s in the interest of every country to have an attractive museum to make a good impression on their tourists. Therefore national museums normally are very well equipped. They have a lot of exhibition pieces as well as staff and in most cases they also provide an adequate infrastructure. That make it understandable, why so many people visit national museums. Most museums are very affordable and not always the most expensive museum is also the best once. Last year for example I had the chance to visit one of the most popular and beautiful museums ever: the Louvre in Paris. The museum, against my misgiving, was very affordable. Indeed I get in for free, as do every person under 26 years. I only had to pay 5 euros for a navigation device, which looked like a game-boy, that enabled me to navigate through the whole building and gave explanations if requested. There are a lot of different types of museums. Some focus on sculptures, other on remains or pictures. There is no museum that you can’t imagine. The vary types of museums guaranties, that there is the right museum for everyone. I for example love antique sculptures, but I never would hit a museum filled whit remains. Another reason to visit a museum is bad weather. Many people try to escape rain and wind by visiting a museum. Therefore, if you are really interested in a certain museum, you should visit it on a sun-shining day and enjoy it while it is not overfilled. For all the aforementioned reasons its absolutely understandable that people visit museums when they travel to new places and learn something about this place.