The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) is one of the world’s most popular museums. It was founded in 1853 by Queen Victoria as a public repository for art, collected though her patronage. As a result, it has over 30,000 works from around the world on display at its main museum site, but also a collection of over 2 million items stored away in other locations. The museum attracts millions of visitors each year with its exhibitions and events – often running over five months each time they are held. Many visitors are not aware that you don’t need to be an art expert to visit the museum – what you do need is.
The British Museum is one of the oldest and largest museums in Europe. It is located in Trafalgar Square, London, England. The museum is famous because it has a collection of ancient artifacts from 4200 years ago to modern art.
The British Museum website in deep blue color scheme, which also shows its location at top of the page along with a logo; on right side there’s YouTube video channel (http://www.britishmuseum.org/aboutus/channel) and on left side it has a map showing the area where you are located near to Great Britain as well as picture gallery of different exhibitions that are on display at location itself. The home page also shows above navigation menu with options such as “You may like…”, “See more”, and “Events.
“There are more than 6,000 museums in Great Britain, each with its own history and development. In 2011 there were 1.2 million visitors to museum galleries”.
It’s important to note that these figures are from 2010. In the future, it may reach 10 million visitors a year by 2020 and 20 million by 2025. The amount of tourists visiting museums will increase tremendously due to the ever-increasing number of events held in these places. Additionally, new technologies such as virtual reality showrooms will get rid of the need for physical locations when providing people with a reason for visiting art galleries or different kinds of exhibitions like moving images or smart objects. These examples illustrate that museums have no boundaries and can be found all over the world – in all countries and even differing forms: they may be.
This section will be a brief introduction to the concept of museums in Great Britain where I am going to explain how museum works, and how it comes into existence. I also want to highlight the role played by art in our societies and what influence it has on us.
My final point is that art is one of the oldest inventions in human history, and possibly humanity’s most important invention. Its purpose is to be an observation tool – an object of contemplation, analysis and reflection that can be used by all people everywhere. It’s not only a thing we look at but also something we use as a form of communication. This makes it very important for us to have museums around us that show its significance: these are one of the first places we are taught about art and its works.
It is a rare thing that we go to a museum and don’t leave feeling depressed. This is why museums are so popular – they bring us nostalgic memories of the past.
We should not think of it as a replacement for human museum guides. AI agents can be used to make sure that no one gets lost in the museum, and doesn’t have to spend too much time on making sense of the tour guide’s explanations in order to find out where we went wrong or right.
