Many people visit museums when they travel around the world. For example, when I visited the Louvre in Paris, there were so many people queuing in front of the museum that I had to wait a long time to enter. People visit museums not because they can appreciate the value of exhibits, but because they want to fulfill their cultural desires. These desires will be fulfilled just by seeing something "culturally authorized", and just by seeing an exhibit relating to something they had studied in books.

People's desires to see something "culturally authorized" bring them to museums when they travel globally. For example, in the Louvre and in front of Leonardo da Vinci's the "Mona Liza" was a crowd of people. Probably ordinary people, not professionals on art, have an amateurish opinion such as "I like it", or "it is more beautiful than I had seen in a book." They can not appreciate the value of the "Mona Liza", but to really see it makes them feel as if they are doing cultural activities, or they belong to a cultivated group. In fact they may not learn anything from seeing a famous exhibit, and it may be meaningless for the ordinary to visit museums. However, they visit because they believe they can be sophisticated by visiting, and the fact they visited may give them "cultural satisfaction".

People also feel satisfied culturally when they see an exhibit relating to what they had already studied in books. For example, I studied in a language-history class about the Rosetta stone, a big piece of stone with an epitaph in old Egyptian and Greek, and then I saw the real Rosetta stone when I visited the British Museum. I felt culturally satisfied and thought that my study was not meaningless. Nowadays a lot of people go to school and are educated, and want to visit a museum to see something learned in books. When they see an exhibit studied in books they probably feel as if their effort to study has put them in a refined group and they feel satisfied.