🏝️ Describe a place that is not visited by many tourists (Part 2)

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• 00:05

  Hello dear listener and welcome into ielts speaking.

• 00:07

  Part two describe a place that is not visited by many tourists.

• 00:12

  You should what the place is, what people can see there, why only few people visit this place and explain why you think it's interesting.

• 00:22

  Rory, off you do.

• 00:29

  I suppose the place that comes to mind most easily is the McManus galleries in the centre of my hometown, Dundee.

• 00:36

  That's not to say it's not frequented by tourists, it's just that it's not always the first stop whenever they choose to come and visit, even though I think it really should be.

• 00:44

  Despite the name, it's actually more of a museum than a gallery.

• 00:48

  And perhaps that's why many people don't go, since the name is a little bit misleading.

• 00:54

  Its full of loads of different artifacts from around the world, which makes sense since it was built in victorian times when the British Empire was a real force out in the world and explorers were bringing back all kinds of things, rightly or wrongly.

• 01:08

  Like I said, the name is a bit unclear in relation to what it actually offers, but its not a total misnomer since the walls are festooned with paintings of all kinds of styles from across history, including modern and classical art.

• 01:22

  I think there might actually be some postmodern stuff in the new exhibits, but im not entirely sure when it comes to why not many people go.

• 01:30

  Im not entirely sure about that either.

• 01:32

  Frankly its not like the building is hard to miss.

• 01:35

  It's like a huge victorian building done in what I think is called a neo gothic style.

• 01:40

  But im no architecture expert.

• 01:43

  No, the real reason might be that its not well advertised and doesnt seem to do much outreach or like I say, it doesn't seem to do this anyway so it doesn't really draw people in and that's a real shame because I've been a few times this year and I think it's one of the best things about my hometown.

• 02:00

  It's got a real sense of history behind it and it's not like you see buildings or contents like that every day.

• 02:05

  My favorite one is this necklace that's made of bear claws from the Americas.

• 02:09

  It's absolutely fascinating and I have no idea what it's for or what it symbolizes or anything.

• 02:16

  I just think it looks really cool.

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