In the past, important knowledge about culture and history was stored in museums. Nowadays, information is freely available on the Internet; therefore, there is no longer any need for museums. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

In a digital age, where an increasing amount of

information

is stored on the

Internet

, there has arisen a voice that

museums

, once serving as

information

centres, have become superfluous.

Although

the opinion sounds seemingly plausible, it has overlooked an essential fact that

information

consists of not only

knowledge

but

also

vivid feelings, which explains why

museums

are still necessary. Despite defending the preservation of

museums

, the essay can partially understand the concerns of those who support the abolition of

museums

. One of the primary reasons is that on the

Internet

individuals can access most of their

knowledge

about culture and history at a negligible cost, which is a field in which

museums

have no competence compared to the

Internet

. What can be an example of

this

perspective is my personal experience in Yangzhou, when I needed to collect

information

on jade articles for my dissertation, but the local

museums

lacked related

information

.

However

, on the

Internet

what I was searching for was available without any effort, since researchers had uploaded that informationinformation onto the

Internet

.

This

, to some extent, can illustrate that

museums

are not in favour of the field of

information

storage and retrieval.

However

, as has been mentioned,

this

flaw does not eclipse

museums

' peculiar advantage

that

Change preposition

in that

show examples

they not only provide

knowledge

but

also

provoke strong emotions deriving from direct interaction with antiques, which cannot be substituted by surfing the

Internet

. In The Story of Arts, a book by Gombrich who is an eminent art theorist, what is repeatedly reclaimed is that "Art is definitely not merely a kind of

knowledge

, it is

also

closely connected with humans' feelings." The essay totally agrees with the judgement as it persuasively explains why people still go to the Louvre to appreciate the sculpture of Venus, when almost every postcard has been printed with that. It is the feelings inspired by these arts preserved in

museums

that continually attract people to

museums

.

Hence

, as a place providing people with an opportunity to directly face antiques, they are irrefutably worth remaining. In summary,

although

the

Internet

has replaced

museums

in their role of preserving

information

,

museums

are still peculiar as they provide visitors with a chance to be moved by antiques, which cannot be achieved on the

Internet

.