Museums - Cultural

Museums have come to be accepted and recognized as the best-equipped institutions devised by man for the assemblage of cultural objects and their presentation and preservation for the present and future generations. They are being gradually transformed into a cultural reality. Thus, just as one goes to the theater for plays and other performing arts; the mosque, the church or the shrine for worship; the library for the printed words, today to the museum one goes to see evidence of man's material outfit. For, no other institution or place so readily comes to mind as museums do when evidence of material culture is sought. Herein lies the importance of museums as cultural institutions and an agency for transmitting culture. Which of the following statements in respect of museums are true as per the text?