These design elements can also influence visitors' enjoyment of the art collection ( Tinio and Smith, 2014 Mastandrea et al., 2019). These include specific elements of museums, from the halls to the artworks, from the arrangement of art in an exhibition, to the paths that visitors follow and the way that objects are displayed. Museums can be considered as built environments, and some museums have even been designed so that they themselves could be seen as works of art, as aesthetic objects to be appreciated. Urban environments, architecture, and buildings that have been systematically designed for both function and aesthetics can affect people's behaviors and social relationships ( Mastandrea et al., 2009). According to an evolutionary explanation known as the biophilia hypothesis ( Kellert and Wilson, 1993), human beings, who have evolved in natural environments, have developed an innate tendency to positively respond to nature as a consequence of an adaptation process. People show a basic tendency to associate the natural environment with positive evaluations. We refer to context according to three broad categories: Context as natural environments, context as built environments, and environments for aesthetic experiences. One of the areas that researchers have yet to fully address is the influence of the context (natural and built environments) on aesthetic experiences. Research on aesthetic experiences has a long history, and in recent decades, the field has experienced tremendous growth in the number of empirical studies conducted. Looking at a landscape, walking in a park, meeting people in a square, and walking into a building that is architecturally appealing are examples of natural and built environments where we can experience beauty, pleasure, attraction, and interest, among other aesthetic reactions. Aesthetic experiences can take place while we observe works of art in museums and galleries as well as in other contexts such as natural and built environments. Physiological and neurological responses are also involved. Most psychological perspectives on the aesthetic experience argue that it results from the coordination of different mental processes such as perception, attention, memory, imagination, thought, and emotion. The aesthetic experience may be defined as people's interactions with, and reactions to, objects, places, but also to the environment.
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