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Last Sunday, I visited San-Antonio museum of art situated on the northern section of the San-Antonio River-walk alongside the opening of Gloria Galt River in Texas United States. This museum was established in 1970s and finally it was opened for the public in 1981. The Economic Development Administration of San Antonio funded grants for the museum.
On the way to the museum, I was doubted about my trip to the museum that it will be worthy or not. However, when I reached in museum, I find many things interesting in museum as I was expecting to be there in a museum that made me happy and grab my attention at first. About all the things in museum were well-meaning and devout and everything tells its own history. There is not only the basic science …show more content…

When we entered into the museum we saw paintings and photography from the 18th, 19th and 20th century events that were arranged in sequence and let the visitors to imagine the life and events from history. The museum was well decorated and huge investment was made in it. The first thing that I spoke was, “wow, this is much cost cubic money.” I always found the museum a worth place to visit as it always has interesting things for me that let me to experience the old culture and way of life in the ancient time. At the first glance, I visited the photo gallery in which I saw the collection from the Egyptian, Roman and Greek culture. The number of portraits and photos were present …show more content…

These are quite interesting that they hang them with different things and in different styles. One thing that I always find the answers that killing of the animals by human and then place to the museum so that people came to know about it and save those species is strange act. Another attractive thing was the Asian art as it was situated on 15,000 square feet of galleries which were established in 2005. It represent the 15000 pieces of art work from China, Korean, Pakistan, Indian, Japan, Thailand, Tibet, Mongolia, Nepal, and

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