Museums to me are wonderful place to be and spend some time in.I give myself an excuse to go whether it is for class or even I just got some free time on my hands. Museums are buildings that contain information within various subject. They are literally libraries of history and information lined up against the walls. They could contain information in topics such as history of a lost civilization or even to less important stuff like pizza. The Metropolitan museum in New York is one of the most famous sites in world. It contains physical history from different parts of the world and time periods as well as art. Museums hold paintings, statues as usual ways to show history. But they can even go the creative route with Visualizations. In “What is Visualization?’ by Lev Manovich hr speaks of the definition of a visualization. According to him it is hard to pinpoint an exact definition but it is along the lines of using computers to create a visual of information which can either be static(still) or dynamic (moving).

One of my favorite examples of visuals in a museum is in the Whitney. There was an exhibit that used lights and live movies in different rooms to create fantasy like environments. Some rooms just contain lights to create physical patterns you can reach and touch other rooms are just movies you can watch with surround sound systems in the room to make it feel like your in a different environment.