The Ringling Museum

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A problem that I would like to solve is to make art and science museums more accessible to people of all backgrounds. This concern has been brought to my attention by conversations with staff at The Ringling Museum where I volunteer. So often it seems that people see going to the museum as a luxury. I believe that if children were given more options to go to museums, it may help them to bring a higher interest to their education. Museums offer something a textbook cannot. Seeing art in front of you can change your perspective on the scale of the work. The skeleton of an extinct animal can inspire a future paleontologist. A planetarium show may inspire a future astrophysicist, such as Neil DeGrasse Tyson who was inspired as a child by a trip

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