Favorite Museums

[Merboy]

I love the Met and AMNH (American Museum of Natural History) in NYC. Lots of wonderful memories there.

[thickornotatall]

We lived around the corner from the Museum of Natural History and across the park from The Met....I worked at MOMA when in school and have visited museums in London..Paris..Madrid..Barcelona... Los Angeles and Mexico City...My favorite is The Detroit Institute Of Arts ...It features The largest Diego Rivera mural outside of Mexico. My cousin was head buyer of antiquities in Detroit and was Ann Fords buyer of art for her collection.

[CuriousByNature]

We lived around the corner from the Museum of Natural History and across the park from The Met....I worked at MOMA when in school and have visited museums in London..Paris..Madrid..Barcelona... Los Angeles and Mexico City...My favorite is The Detroit Institute Of Arts ...It features The largest Diego Rivera mural outside of Mexico. My cousin was head buyer of antiquities in Detroit and was Ann Fords buyer of art for her collection.

British Museum, Victoria and Albert, British Library Special Collections, and Natural History Museum all in London. Hermitage in St. Petersburg. Field Museum in Chicago. All of the Smithsonian Museums in Washington DC. So many good ones out there...

[+ Pensant]

I was astounded by how impressive the Cleveland Museum of Art was.

[KeepItReal]

The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia is worth a visit if you enjoy Fine Art.

[keefer]

traveled Europe in my mid-30's following an itinerary put together by friends, the top two museums during that trip was Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam, the experience was dramatically transformed with the audio guide/tour and Uffizi in Florence, (though I lost count after the thousandth Madonna con bambino)... but as I've aged I find myself returning again and again to the British Museum.

[Merboy]

The Franklin Institute is also great, they had a heart exhibit where you can feel the walls ....

[Merboy]

I also like the Liberty Science Center

[+ WilliamM]

Leopold Museum, Vienna

 

Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

[KrisParr]

Tate Modern in London and Picasso in Barcelona.

[wsc]

In more out the way places, the Speed Museum in Louisville, Kentucky is wonderful and includes the reassembled great hall of a Tudor-era manor house deconstructed in England and brought to America. I remember being fascinated with that in high school.

 

Also, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond is a world-class collection of art in a much less hectic locale than museums in larger cities. I particularly like the Antiquities galleries.

 

And though not a museum, the architecture and embellishments of the main building of the Library of Congress in DC, is -for me- a transcendent experience, well worth my four visits. Particularly impressive is seeing the remnants of Jefferson's Library, sold to replenish Congress' Library following loss of the original Congressional collection in the War of 1812. To see, but please don't touch, books bought and used by Thomas Jefferson is a spine-tingling experience.

[+ azdr0710]

Smithsonian American History Museum in DC. Spent all day in one wing of one floor during a visit. The first post-it notepad! The first mini-van! The Coke "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing" song on continuous loop!

Edited January 17, 2021 by azdr0710

[marylander1940]

I love the Met and AMNH (American Museum of Natural History) in NYC. Lots of wonderful memories there.

 

Metropolitan in NYC, Bishop Museum in Honolulu and Minneapolis Institute of Art.

[+ Pensant]

The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia is worth a visit if you enjoy Fine Art.

It is, though it’s a bit of an eccentric jumble, reflective of its founder.

[cany10011]

I hope I don’t repeat the excellent choices others have mentioned, but In NYC: I like the Frick, Rubin, Whitney in Manhattan. Noguchi museum in Queens is fantastic. The Storm King Center is also nice for it’s sculptures and a short jaunt from NYC. The Brandywine museum in is also worth checking out for its Wyeth collection.

[cany10011]

Metropolitan in NYC, Bishop Museum in Honolulu and Minneapolis Institute of Art.

Have you visited Shangri-la in Honolulu. It’s the former Duke estate and part of the Honolulu Museum. Beautiful interiors and surroundings. Great Islamic art collection there too.

[cany10011]

I also like the Liberty Science Center

It is quite fun! I love the hands on experience. I took my god daughter there once and she enjoyed it. It’s a very easy trip from manhattan.

[cany10011]

For those into pottery, the Nezu museum in Tokyo and the Gulbenkian in Lisbon have wonderful Asian ceramics collection.

[+ DERRIK]

I not much of a museum visitor but I found the Holocaust Memorial in DC very moving

 

i decided on the spur of the moment to visit a museum and picked the Holocaust because it had no line

 

 

No one could take the tour and not have tears when finished

Edited January 18, 2021 by DERRIK

[+ Lucky]

https://www.toptenz.net/top-10-strangest-museums-ever.php

[EastbayMike]

Hakone Open Air Museum in Japan.

[+ WilliamM]

Nobel Prize Museum, Stockholm (near the Baltic Sea)

[jonnychgo]

I not much of a museum visitor but I found the Holocaust Memorial in DC very moving

 

No one could take the tour and not have tears when finished

True, one of the most moving experiences.

[+ g56whiz]

We lived around the corner from the Museum of Natural History and across the park from The Met....I worked at MOMA when in school and have visited museums in London..Paris..Madrid..Barcelona... Los Angeles and Mexico City...My favorite is The Detroit Institute Of Arts ...It features The largest Diego Rivera mural outside of Mexico. My cousin was head buyer of antiquities in Detroit and was Ann Fords buyer of art for her collection.

I think we were neighbors @thickornotatall. West 82nd. Park block.

Edited January 17, 2021 by g56whiz

[+ g56whiz]

I get claustrophobia in crowded museums. 50 years ago bankers got Election Day off while few others did. I would spend a lonely hours wandering thru The Met or Guggenheim. Then we last that day to MLK day and museums are all closed on Mondays. Alas.

 

If you can escape from the bars and baths of Bangkok for a bit, I commend the Jim Thompson House Museum. He, of the silk business, collected Thai buildings, ceramics, furniture, etc that he assembled into a magnificent estate in the middle of the city. It’s now museum and oasis of tranquility in that bustling city.