I never understood the benefit of public museums, especially in the internet age.
If you want to look at some artifacts without touching it, you could google it and see it.
Also in public museums a lot of artifacts get damaged due to visitors behaviors.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to keep the old artifacts at storage facility and release a high quality pictures of it instead of putting it in a museum?
Is there is a benefit for public museums?
Paintings are fascinating.
There is a luminescence in the paint and texture that cannot be duplicated on a screen or page.
I didn’t really understand this myself until I attended a showing at the local museum of some rennaissance era artwork. It’s stunning, and the photographs do not do it justice.