Visiting Art Museums Shown to Increase Longevity

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We should all be getting more exposure to the arts, claims a medical study published in the   British Medical Journal . Just one exhibition a year could add years to our lives.  A team of researchers from the University College London surveyed 6,710 adults in England, aged 50 or older, to test whether a correlation exists between arts engagement and mortality. The longitudinal study tracked how often participants went to museums, art galleries, exhibitions, theater performances, concerts, or the opera. They found that even those who had what was classified as infrequent arts activity (going to maybe one or two cultural events a year) had a 14 percent lower risk of early mortality.