--- title: Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is there — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Museums and galleries: how to visit and what is there», a lesson of the arts course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. 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How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/17-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/17-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there/0/) — A museum keeps important objects safe and shows them to everyone: paintings, mummies, dinosaurs, machines; a gallery mostly shows art, and some galleries also sell it. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/17-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there/1/) — Picture a guard saying "Step back from the art, please": oils and sweat from hands slowly damage paint, and one touch is small, but millions of visitors touching would wear a painting away. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/17-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there/2/) — Museums are huge, so the trick is to choose a few rooms and really look; many are free, so you can come back, and many have hands-on rooms, kids' trails and audio guides (recordings that explain things as you walk round). - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/17-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there/3/) — Museums also raise big questions: some objects were taken from other countries in colonial times and people argue about sending them back, and in wars museums hide their art because it holds a country's memory. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/17-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there/5/) — Museums ask people not to touch art because oils and sweat from hands damage paint over time; conservation means keeping art safe for the future. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/17-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there/6/) — Big museums like the British Museum or the Louvre have far more than anyone can see in one day; feeling worn out from too much looking is called museum fatigue. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/17-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there/7/) — Many objects in European museums were taken from other countries in colonial times; some countries ask for them back, people disagree about what to return, and some objects have been returned. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/17-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there/8/) — Returning objects to the country they came from is called repatriation. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/17-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there/10/) — Bright camera flashes over years can fade delicate colours and annoy visitors; many museums allow photos without flash. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/17-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there/12/) — Many dinosaur skeletons are casts, copies made from moulds, because real fossil bones are heavy, fragile and rare; labels usually say which parts are real. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/17-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there/13/) — Many national museums and galleries in Britain are free to enter, paid for by taxes and donations; some charge for special exhibitions. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/17-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there/14/) — Paintings in public museums usually belong to the museum or the country and are not for sale; at auction, art can sell for hundreds of millions. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/17-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there/15/) — A label gives the artist, date and material, but you can enjoy art just by looking and asking yourself questions. - ← previous: [Famous artists, simply (Van Gogh, Kahlo, Picasso, Hokusai, Bilokur, Prymachenko, Qi Baishi...)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/) - next →: [Modern art: "my little brother could do that"](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/18-modern-art-my-little-brother-could-do-that/) - ↑ back to [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/)