There are numbers of people always visit the museums when they travel to new places. It is not difficult to explain this pheromone. As a combination of history and culture as well as the place where many actors are exhibited, museums always have their attraction to people by gratify the visitor’s thirst for knowledge and great works.
People may know more about the history and culture about the country or the city they traveled by visiting the local museums. The Capital Museum of China will be good example. Its displays are well exhibited the culture, the custom and the history of China. For an ecdemic visitor who knows little about China, it is difficult to know China well by going everywhere. So in a limited time, visiting this museum will be a good way to let him know the characteristic of this country.
And some museums are also a place where many celebrated artworks are kept. The Louvre Palace in France, for instance, is a dream place for mounts of people who love act. There are many great works such as Venus sculpture and Mona Lisa painting give the museum a special affection. There is no doubt that people will visit this museum when they take a trip to Paris. They may have read of lots a books about these famous works of art and look forward to the chance to see them with their own eyes.
There also exists the reason that people visit museum because it is a museum. They heard about a museum before, and other people visited it when they came to this place. They curious about it so when they come here, it will be a good chance for them to know it, even though the museum is not the kind of place they really like. For an example, people visit the Great palace for different reasons. Many of them visit there because it is a well known place.
In conclude, the desire of knowledge about a place and chance to see great arts as well as the curious about the museum they heard is what I think people’s reason to visit museums when they travel to a new place.