How satisfactory is a museum gallery display in explaining the culture of a people? Give examples from your own experience of a museum.
HistoryClass 11CBSEAnswered 27 Mar 2026
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Answer:
A museum gallery displays the culture of a people in the following ways:
- In museum, we seek information regarding dialects and languages.
- Remains of pots, apparels, ornaments and other things are displayed.
- Books, research papers, survey reports and works of historians and archaeologists are kept in the gallery of museum.
- Icons of the ancient periods, the theology in its basic forms and coins are also found in the museum.In fact, the museum is a storehouse of all the things symbolizing cultures of human beings from prehistoric period to the present. These things display cultures of the respective periods.
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