People who visit museums of modern art are used to describing their visit in emotional terms. Traditional art, on the contrary, more often gets rational description.
A group of Italian experts from University of Rome in the head of Stefano Mastandrea has researched and analyzed the reasons for what people go to museums.
The experts questioned 137 people who had visited two not so well-known Rome museums, the palace of Braschi (exhibiting pictures of 16-19 centuries) and The National Gallery of Contemporary Art (exhibiting pictures of 19-mid 20 centuries).
In both cases the visitors mainly turned to be women. The educational level of the visitors was the same in both cases. The most frequent answers to the question why they visited museums were that they had great interest to this or that artist or that they were coming to see the original pictures.
However, there turned to be visitors who said they visited the museums for self-satisfaction, while the reason for the visitors of museums of traditional art was the wish to get spiritual nourishment.
What is more interesting about these studies is that the visitors of the museum of contemporary art showed higher results in the sense of expressing emotions.
According to the researches, people who visit contemporary art museums and galleries look for new impressions as compared with those who prefer ancient art.
However the experts found it important to mention that in both cases the visitors were satisfied with their visits.
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