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As we know, museums are buildings with many precious and important objects(物品) from different places. They are kept so that people can go and see them. For example, art museums are places where people can learn about d1. cultures. More and more popular "design museums" are opening today, h2., play quite a different role. Unlike most art museums, the design museum shows objects that are e3. found in our daily life, such as fridges and washing machines. The a4. of design museums is that they are places where people feel familiar with the exhibits. Being different from the art museum visitors, design museum visitors s5. feel frightened or puzzled. This is partly because design museums clearly show how and why mass-products(批量產(chǎn)品) work and look as they do, and how design has i6.our lives. People can see the better changes of the products. Art museum exhibits, on the o7. hand, would most probably fill visitors with a feeling that there is something they don't understand.

Several new design museums have opened their doors in recent years. Each of these museums has tried to satisfy the public's growing interest in the field with new i8.. London's Design Museum, for e9., shows a collection of mass-produced objects from electric typewriters to a group of Italian fish-tins. The choices open to design museums seem far less s10.than those to art museum. Visitors may also sense the humorous part of our society while walking around such exhibits as interesting and unusually attractive toys collected from our everyday life.

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