Museums and open-air museums adjust their functions to the modern environment. They satisfy the needs and expectations of a growing number of social groups. They allow for a contact with the exhibit. The space of a museum enables us to observe the versatile relations between the humanistic and technical dimensions. Museums and open-air museums exhibit technical achievements. Technology allows for the organization of modern museums and open-air museums. The effects of interactivity, made possible thanks to technology, are, however, not technical but humanistic. A tourist, or an art lover visiting a museum is changed intellectually and esthetically. Such a change is possible, but not without the contribution of multimedia devices, which are the effect of the development of technical civilization. Museums and open-air museums are spaces of accumulated beauty, „shining through” the accumulated items with the help of technology. Thus, such places are an example of a technical development that is not accompanied by a crisis of culture.