One day, Country Mouse gets a phone call from his cousin, City Mouse.

City Mouse says, “Cousin, please come visit me.”

“OK!” says Country Mouse. “I will walk to your house. Can you give me directions?”

“You can’t walk to Paris!” says City Mouse. “You have to take a train.”

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Art MuseumsArt museums have paintings and sculptures. These are some of the things you might see in an art museum.

The Mona Lisa is one of the most famous paintings in the world. Leonardo da Vinci painted it around 1503. Over six million people see the Mona Lisa each year.

Facts About MuseumsNatural History MuseumsNatural history museums show things from the natural world, like animals, plants, and minerals. These are some of the things you might see in a natural history museum.

Little Dancer Aged Fourteen is a sculpture by Edgar Degas from 1881. The sculpture shows a young dancer in a dress with a ribbon in her hair.

The T. rex dinosaur lived over 65 million years ago. It was about 12 meters (40 feet) long and was as big as a bus.

Many natural history museums have mummies of people who died thousands of years ago.

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