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Museums
1). For those people who prefer food for thought there are very many museums, exhibition halls and picture galleries.
2). There are different kinds of museums. 3). Those who are interested in history can find a lot of useful and unusual information in history museums. 4). There they can get acquainted with a number of documents, photographs, books, personal belongings of well-known people of the past. 5). In museums of local lore, history and economy one can better understand how people lived in this region, how they worked. 6). They can also learn a lot of interesting things about flora and fauna of the locality. 7). To understand arts and to enjoy masterpieces of art one should visit picture galleries and exhibition halls.
8). There are a great number of museums all over the world. 9). The most famous of them in Russia are the Museum of Fine Arts named after Pushkin and the State Tretyakov Arts Gallery in Moscow, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, and others. 10). The State Hermitage is one of the largest and most famous museums in the world. 11). The arts of all the peoples in the world are represented here. 12). The Hermitage Museum was founded in 1764 as a pavilion called the Hermitage. 13). Today it has over 350 exhibition halls, which house a very rich collection of works of art.
14). One of the largest museums in Great Britain is the British Museum, which is the best known national museum of antiquities and ethnography. 15). It is situated in London. 16). The British Museum is a huge beautiful building with a high round reading hall in it.
17). It is famous for its greatest library. 18). The library has more than six million books that occupy more than 80 miles of shelves. 19). Here you can find everything you want: English Chronicles, autographs of great writers, Greek and Latin manuscripts, books and magazines from all parts of the world. 20). There are also lots of other memorials in the museum: the Hall of Mummies, the Ethnography Department, the Arts of Par East and so on. 21). There are always many visitors from all countries in the British Museum