section two you will hear a guide at an art museum talking to a group of visitors first you have some time to look at questions 11 to 16 now listen carefully and answer questions 11 to 16 good morning and welcome to the museum one with a Remar arable range of exhibits which I'm sure you'll enjoy my name is Greg and I'll tell you about the various collections as we go around but before we go let me just give you a taste of what we have here well for one thing we have a fine collection of
20th and 21st century paintings many by very well-known artists I'm sure you'll recognize several of the paintings this is the gallery that attracts the largest number of visitors so it's best to go in early in the day before the crowds arrive then there are the 19th century paintings the museum was opened in the middle of that century and several of the artists each donated one work to get the museum started as it were so they're of special interest to us we feel closer to them than to other works the sculpture gallery has a number of
fine exhibits but I'm afraid it's currently closed for refurbishment you'll need to come back next year to see it properly but a number of the sculptures have been moved to other parts of the museum around the world world is a temporary exhibition you've probably seen something about it on TV or in the newspapers it's created a great deal of interest because it presents objects from every continent and many countries and provides information about their social context why they were made who for and so on then there's the collection of coins this is what you might
call a focused specialist collection because all the coins come from this country and were produced between two ,000 and a th000 years ago and many of them were discovered by ordinary people digging their Gardens and donated to the museum all our porcelain and glass was left to the museum by its founder when he died in 1878 and in the terms of his will were not allowed to add anything to that collection he believed it was perfect in itself and we don't see any reason to disagree
