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The Sonoran Desert Museum
MOMA
Depends on the age. Didn't care much for art museums until I got older.
I could also rep and say the Brooklyn Museum too since I could walk to it.
The 9/11museum in nyc. Cried through the whole time I was there and it’s a beautiful experience going out to the pond afterwards.
The R.O.M. (Royal Ontario Museum)
Virginia museum of fine art. I lived across the street during college.
Vatican has greatest collection of Roman art. Pergamon Museum in Berlin is awesome. Cluttered casts at London Soane's Museum are fun.
Musee D'Orsay.Stunning.
Getty
Collection de l'Art Brut (outsider art) in Lausanne, Switzerland. Mind bending art from non-professionals.
Isabelle Stewart Gardner in Boston.
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Museum of Natural History, Singapore! Got to see Dino skeletons, it was surreal!
Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix - you get to play a Theremin!
Musee d’Orsay, Paris
Musee d'Orsay in Paris. I love Impressionist art.
Boston MFA
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
National Portrait Gallery, London
Tate Museum, London
Museum of London
1.The Hermitage in St.Petersburg.
2. The Sistine Chapel at the Vatican
3. The Musee Cluny in Paris.
The British Museum:
Mummies - my spouse: "what is that smell?"
Babylon steles detailing the destruction of the nation of Judah
the Elgin Marbles
Chicago Field Museum. Art museums get quickly overwhelming for me, but I can spend all day at the Field.
Vatican Museum, Accademia, Doge's Palace Museum
Lourve and Picasso museums, Paris
Hermitage Museum
My favorites are the Prado in Madrid, the Belvedere in Vienna and the National Museum of Anthropolgy in Mexico City. And I agree the D'Orsay is lovely...
Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. Also, the Brucke museum in Berlin dedicated to German Expressionism.
For architecture the Petit Trianon (Marie Antoinette's little house in the back of Versailles) and Malmaison (Josephine's house - the lover of Napoleon), both are such gems of cozy, toned-down Neo-classical design
Natural.history museum london...not for the exhibits but for the beautiful building itself.
Blessed to grow up in Chicagoland area, several amazing ones...Science and Industry Museum, Field, Art Institute, Shedd Aquarium, Adler Planetarium are all wonderful!
Love Musee D'Orsay
British Museum, Tate Gallery, Victoria and Albert
The entire Smithsonian along the Mall in DC, and the FBI museum...Years ago, I spent a 10 day vacation in DC with my history-loving mom, and it was a terrific experience. Truly a beautiful city.
National Gallery in London.
Yes WickedBee - ROM is it! They used to have Tuesday nights free, and their displays were stunning.
I saw King Tut there when I was 19 and he was on his first world tour. And the David Cronenberg display they did was impressive. Nothing like seeing a 10 year old shake his head and say, "This is so. FUCKED. UP." while watching a portion of Naked Lunch.
national world war 2 museum in nola
Concur with so many of these but have to give a nod (okay, big hug) to the Nelson-Atkins in KC .... Go Chiefs!
Also, if you're ever so fortunate as to be in Neah Bay ... the Makah Tribe has an gem of a museum right on the edge of town. It's comprised primarily of artifacts recovered when a slide on the Pacific side of their territory in the 70s revealed an old settlement.
the Vatican
Eesti Kunstimuuseum Kumu is very good, particularly for a small museum in a small country. I particularly like the room with all the busts, all these historical figures packed in tight like a crowd at a basketball game. Creative.
probs not the best but two very interesting ones are Andy Warhol Museum and Georgia Okeefe Museum
#1 Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. It's amazing, even if you aren't a fan you gain respect from his output.
#2 Museum of Jurassic Technology in L.A. It's not a museum so much as a conceptual mind F@!k
@no, I haven't been to the MJT yet but enjoyed Lawrence Weschler's book about it a great deal!
British Museum... It. Has. Everything.
Also Fallling Water by Frank Lloydd Wright
The original Barnes Foundation, in the Philly suburbs, was the most astounding and confusing collection of art displayed from the most unique perspective imaginable. It was also the greatest collection of post-impressionist art ever gathered in one place.
When the Philly elite gathered and pretty much stole the collection from Dr. Barnes' estate,they made it just another institutional collection.
If you want to see a fascinating movie, find "Art Of The Steal", which details one of the greatest art heists in history, all approved by the judicial system of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Holocaust museum
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1. Tate Gallery--- especially the Rothko Room--a room Rothko designed as the best way to view his work
2. Art Institute of Chicago
3. MOMA
The Victoria & Albert Museum in London
Monticello
If I were to walk to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
Well, first I'd go to the room where they keep the Cezanne
the very tiny, but perfectly perfect Dixon Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in Memphis once showed art installations by Chihuly AND an impressionist exhibit which included Cassatt, Manet, Monet, and Degas--including one of his Little Dancer statues. i gladly admit to crying when seeing Little Dancer and having to be nearly torn away to leave her. Chihuly went all out for the installation at the Dixon, too. the whole of the gardens were turned into a magical and breathtaking landscape. i still cannot believe how perfect it all melded together and my luck in seeing all of it in one day.
laignappe: i highly recommend any art lover to go find the Doctor Who episode "Vincent and the Doctor" where the Doctor and Amy Pond take Vincent Van Gogh into modern times to see and hear how revered his art became. i cry every time i watch it.
Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix
Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pa.
Hagia Sophia in Istanbul
No one else? Salvador Dali Museum in Figueroa, Spain?
Mutter museum
The tomb of King Philip of Macedonia in Vergina, Greece
St Fagans
Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore
MOB Museum in Las Vegas!
It takes 2 days to get through all of the history they have there.
WWII Museum in NOLA
Loved the Tate! The JMW Turner exhibit was amazing.
The Getty before it moved.
The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
Texas Book Depository, Dallas
Ann Frank House, Amsterdam
Musee D'Orsay, Paris
Peggy Guggenheim, Venice
Picasso Museum, Barcelona
Genghis Kahn Memorial, Ulaanbattar, Mongolia
Chuju-giga exhibit, Osaka
I ran out out of the Salvador Dali Museum ready to vomit, it got too crazy.
The Louvre, the Vatican Museum, the Chicago Art Institute
The Field Museum, Chicago
Philadelphia Art Museum
Yad Vashem
Tate Modern
British Museum
Getty Villa
Picasso(Paris)
LBJ Presidential Library(Austin)
Been to all the major museums in NYC. Some things I liked, some I didn't, but I sure hated being in that city.
It doesn't get mentioned often but The Cleveland Museum of Art has one of the finest collections in the world.
The Louvre and The British Museum. Most unusual: I don’t recall the name but we visited a catacomb museum in Rome filled with skulls and bones of monks.
I grew up in NYC and I have great memories of the wonderful field trips we took to New York monuments and museums. I loved The Museum of Natural History and remember being in awe of the huge, suspended blue whale replica.
Also: The Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
Briscoe Western Art Museum, San Antonio. Fantastic collection of silver spurs, saddles, and water pump from the west Texas plains. They let me in the second day free because I told them I bypassed some cool stuff.
This Your Turn is giving me a major travel bug...I want to print this list, grab my piggy bank and passport and go! Field trip, anyone?☺
Mud-- you mentioned Chihuly, I'd have loved to see that exhibition! Do you by any chance know the name of the place in Memphis that had a Catherine the Great exhibit years ago? It was really impressive, and I believe it was the first time many of the items had left the Hermitage.
The Clark
I love the Norton Simon and the Frick, and going to the Venice Biennale is a great experience also.
I spent a large amount of my childhood growing up in Washington DC. So the Smithsonian is my only answer. The Field Museum in Chicago was the biggest disappointment. Nothing compares to the Smithsonian.
Hermitage, Leningrad, aaaaand the British Museum, London...
Smithsonian Art and Aviation (2"separate museums). Pretty cool stuff. The Getty in Bel Air. Will be going to Malibu soon
Bletchley Park
MOMA - saw the Yoko Ono exhibit there a while back. It was hilarious!
African-American museum in D. C.
It isn't the actual museums I find interesting, but their exhibits. The best and most beautiful was the VIENNA 1900 presentation at MOMA decades ago. The Klimt paintings, with their gold inlays, dazzled the eyes and mind. His masterpiece, The Kiss, was indescribable. I stood in front of it for almost an hour. The entire exhibit blew me away.
I'll say the most underwhelming museum I've ever been to was the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I went in November. While I'm glad I went, and there were a few neat things (specifically the little parody magazine John Lennon used to write and illustrate in grammar school, The Daily Howl, which was hilarious) it is too small and too lacking in representation of major movements of music. It really needs more wings, and I don't know how they can do that with where the museum is currently located (near a waterfront).
It needs a permanent punk exhibit, glam rock exhibit, it needs a permanent 70's wing, 80's wing, a permanent grunge exhibit, for starters. I know they have revolving exhibits, but it isn't enough.
I went to see the David Bowie Is exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum a year or two ago and it BLEW MY MIND. It had iconic costumes, handwritten lyrics, props from his stage shows, tours, movies, footage of his concerts, and of him before he became famous, and was perfectly arranged to narrate the timeline of his career. THAT is how to stage an exhibit.
@Vita: i believe the Catherine the Great exhibit was at the Cook Convention Center in Memphis. i wish i'd been able to see that!
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