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2. Get a map before hand – Whether you get it with your ticket or buy it for a couple of bucks, it is most important thing to get the worth of your ticket and time. Without a map you may be just re-discovering the museum items all over again, stumbling upon them and missing some of the ones you may have wanted to seen.
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3. Get a guide – An audio guide is my best friend in a museum. I sometime wish there were audio guides and numbers all around a new city I visit so that the process of learning about new things becomes easy. An audio guide tells me which things are the most important finds or items of display. I may miss everything else but I do not miss those described in an audio guide.
4. Know what interests you – A museum can have a huge collection. No matter how ample or little the time on hand is, you cannot see everything in one visit. So, decide the areas that seem most interesting to you and focus on those to get the most of your visit.
5. Take back five things from the museum – I don’t mean I pick up and walk away with museum items! The truth is nothing disappoints me more than walking for hours in a museum and not remembering a single thing I saw there after returning home. So I made a simple a ‘five item rule’. I make a mental note of five things that impressed me the most in a museum and return home and research it. It makes my museum visits more meaningful.
The task of seeing and retaining so much information can be daunting. Although we made a simple rule for our museum visits, ‘we do not aim at seeing everything and we do not aim at remembering everything we saw.’ But, yet I find richest museums in the world failing to keep his attention for more than five minutes. I guess museum are not for everyone after all. Are you a museum person?
