Some are attracted to museums by the art and the culture — but if that isn’t enough, there is always the strange!
Cancún Underwater Museum
No need to hold your breath to see this one. The Cancún Underwater Museum is, as the name suggests, underwater. More than 500 sculptures anchored in the ocean off Mexico are meant to illustrate the interplay of art and nature. Visitors can either admire the works through a glass-bottom boat or take a scuba diving tour.
Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre
With great attention to detail, New Zealand built the Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre, which exhibits original aircraft from the First and Second World Wars. Some belong to film director Sir Peter Jackson, who helped create the set designs with his team. Anyone interested in the pioneers of aviation should pay a visit to the museum in Blenheim.
Tenement Museum
At New York’s Tenement Museum, visitors can gain an insight into what life was like for immigrants and the working class in the city from the 1860s through to the 1980s. The museum opened in 1992 and offers guided tours of two tenement buildings with recreated rooms, where costumed ‘residents’ enact the daily lives of the city’s newcomers and workers over the period — leaps and bounds from the money makers of Wall Street.
Cupnoodles Museum
The Cupnoodles Museum in Yokohama, Japan, offers a treat: exhibits can be not only admired, but eaten. Visitors can work in the museum’s noodle workshop, refining creations with their favourite ingredients. While doing so, one can also learn the history of the ramen noodle, one of Japan’s most popular foods.
【小题1】What is special about the Cancún Underwater Museum?| A．The strange name. | B．The number of sculptures. |
| C．Works about art and nature. | D．Ways of visiting it. |
| A．Cancún Underwater Museum. | B．Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre. |
| C．Tenement Museum. | D．Cupnoodles Museum. |
| A．They are about art and history. | B．They display aircraft from world wars. |
| C．They have unusual features. | D．They record immigrants’ daily lives. |
