Museums are fun places to go to when it's raining outside. Or when you want to exercise your brain more than your body. Museums are great places to “learn” (apprendre), to “study” (étudier), to “look” (regarder), and “have fun” (s'amuser).

There are many kinds of museums, but two main ones are art museums (un musée d'art) and science museums (un musée des sciences). Sometimes the art and science museums focus on a specific field, so you can have a museum of contemporary art (un musée d'art contemporain), a museum of modern art (un musée d'art moderne), a museum of decorative arts (un musée des arts décoratifs), a museum of photography (un musée de la photographie), a museum of Asian art (un musée des arts asiatiques), a museum of natural history (un musée d'histoire naturelle), a museum of technology (un musée de technologie), or a museum of archeology (un musée d'archéologie).

To Like and To Visit — Aimer et visiter

Let's work with the French verbs for “to like” (aimer) and “to visit” (visiter) to make sentences about whether you'd like to go to the museum or not. In the blanks, write either a positive sentence (Oui, j'aime visiter le musée d'art contemporain) or a negative sentence (Non, je n'aime pas visiter le musée d'art contemporain).

What do you see?—Qu'est-ce que tu vois?

At the museum, you get to see a lot of things. “To see” is voir in French. Here is the conjugation map for voir: