Reflection Paper: A Trip To The Arizona State Museum

Known for their various types of artwork and different lifestyles, Native Americans are responsible for the contribution of more than 50% of the artwork we see today in our region. Most people believe that museums are basically only places you visit on random school field trips and they can not really teach you anything. I was one of these people. I felt that museums were not interesting at all and because of how boring they were, that no one actually learned anything from them. Well, one trip to the Arizona State Museum proved my theory completely wrong. By visiting the museum, I learned a collection of new and interesting facts about the Native American people that i would not have learned otherwise. For example, I learned that the Native …show more content…
The truth is in about 11,000 B.C., the Native people were creating drawings and designs on various pieces of bone, stone, and bark. The oldest known piece of art found in the Americas was actually a depiction of a mammoth with some type of pattern design drawn on a piece of bone, found in Florida. It is believed that this was drawn by the first native people in the area. This sparked a fire in the people and they have been creating art ever since! They now incorporate art into their everyday lives, ceremonies and other aspects of their …show more content…
In the past, I also thought the same way about libraries. Until one day, the library in my hometown started offering all their books online. This quick new way to access information made it more appealing to read and look at books. Learning how to like library was basically the same as learning to like the museum. I had to first take an online tour of the museum for it to start to interest me. The information had to be presented in a way that appealed to me in order for me to become interested. That is how a digital literacy is