Favorite Museums

[+ 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.

[marylander1940]

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

 

The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco should be also in my list.

 

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

 

I cried visiting Yad Vashem.

 

[+ harey]

Guggenheim museum in NYC

Getty Center in LA

de Young museum in San Francisco

Rothko Chapel in Houston

Islamic Arts Museum in Istanbul

[+ bashful]

My favorite is The Detroit Institute Of Arts

 

One of the best in the USA.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Institute_of_Arts

 

Others that I’ve seen over the years are some of the Smithsonian Museums (National Gallery, Air and Space, American History), the Holocaust Museum, Henry Ford Museum/Greenfield Village, and the Museum of Science and Industry. I bought a membership to the Art Institute in Chicago a few years go, but just haven’t gotten there yet.

 

edit. Don’t know if it’s a museum per se, but the Arizona Memorial on Oahu is a must see.

Edited January 18, 2021 by bashful

[kingsley88]

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.

Loved the Van Gogh museum as well! I'll admit I was 20 years old when I visited Amsterdam during study abroad and a friend told my friends and I that some of the paintings may a make more sense if we had a beer or two before going to the museum and he was right! Nowadays when I go to an art museum I prefer to drink a glass of wine or beer before going.

[+ WilliamM]

Second, the Uffizi Museum in Florence, with Leonardo and Michelangelo at their best in Italian Renaissance Art.

 

Also the Borgese Gallery in Rome for the same glorious period in art, especially Raphael.

 

Prado in Madrid is one of my first museum, worth the wait

Edited January 18, 2021 by WilliamM

[cany10011]

Second, the Uffizi Museum in Florence, with Leonardo and Michelangelo at their best in Italian Renaissance Art.

 

Also the Borgese Gallery in Rome for the same glorious period in art, especially Raphael.

I remember visiting the Borghese villa. One would have to email/call for reservations. There was no online method to do so. Was truly a gem! Yes, the Uffizzi is fantastic - amazing Botticelli’s on the second floor.

[jtwalker]

Air and Space Museum at Dulles Airport

[+ WilliamM]

The quite fragile painting "The Lady Supper" can be seen (with reservation) at a Catholic convent in downtown Milan

[PetetKsfo]

I love many of the traditional museums previously mentioned, plus also the Boston Museum of Science, and the Van Gough museum in Amsterdam.

 

But I would be remiss on this site to not mention the national Leather Archives and Museum, located in Chicago.

In addiotion to great erotic artwork, it holds a vast history of gay and gay leather life. There is a library where you can see old gay magazines from decades ago, containing classified ads of escorts and masseurs from the days before the internet. Perhaps you might even find some ads of guys who frequent this site!

 

Regards

Peter

[marylander1940]

Chicago Art Institute

 

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[+ bashful]

Loved the Van Gogh museum

 

Don't know if this was mentioned previously, but the new Van Gogh Immersive Exhibit (in venues other than museums) looks interesting. I can't find a link that will paste, but google "Van Gogh Immersive Exhibit"

[Bargara Leatherboy]

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.

 

 

The Jim Thompson House is awesome, its on a canal and i had a wonderful few hours riding the public ferry boats up and down the canal , 19 baht for the full length

[Bargara Leatherboy]

My favs are as follows

* The Frick Collection NYC

*The Guggenheim. NYC

* Rodin. Paris

*Guggenheim Venice Italy

 

I love what the English call stately homes

 

Blenheim Palace. UK

Howard Castle UK

 

Some Fabulous Royal Residences

 

Buckingham Palace

Windsor Castle

Hampton Court Palace

Balmoral Castle

Sandringham House

 

Versailles

[+ Lucky]

I wonder what the requirements are to get into the Masterbation Hall of Fame?

Surely there will be no spelling test.

[mike carey]

Surely there will be no spelling test.

Probably the same spelling test as for the sub-bation hall of fame.

[spider]

I love a good niche museum. Those small highly focused on an off the wall topic ones. My favorite one is the Mütter Museum in Philly. It's a museum of medical oddities. Kind of morbid but fascinating

 

Ditto. The Sir John Soane museum in London is great. The Cloisters. Get a Paris Museum pass and map it out. A number of them are only worth 10-30 minutes but are interesting and included in the cost. There’s a nice house museum in Amsterdam, name forgotten to me. Haven’t yet made it to the penis museum in Reykjavik, but people says it’s worth a trip. There’s also a small whale museum that has a bunch of fiberglass whales that sounded corny but I had 30 minutes to kill and had fun. This one isn’t exactly small, but the Hermitage outpost in Amsterdam is very nice. Many University campuses have very nice and not well known museums as well. Sometimes a corporate headquarters will have a small but interesting museum, always free.

Edited January 18, 2021 by spider

[LGatton]

Surely there will be no spelling test.

It would be pretty impressive if you could spell something out while doing that??

[+ Charlie]

Ditto. The Sir John Sloane museum in London is great. The Cloisters. Get a Paris Museum pass and map it out. A number of them are only worth 10-30 minutes but are interesting and included in the cost. There’s a nice house museum in Amsterdam, name forgotten to me. Haven’t yet made it to the penis museum in Reykjavik, but people says it’s worth a trip. There’s also a small whale museum that has a bunch of fiberglass whales that sounded corny but I had 30 minutes to kill and had fun. This one isn’t exactly small, but the Hermitage outpost in Amsterdam is very nice. Many University campuses have very nice and not well known museums as well. Sometimes a corporate headquarters will have a small but interesting museum, always free.

It's Sir John Soane. (A friend of mine was the director many years ago)

[spider]

It's Sir John Soane. (A friend of mine was the director many years ago)

 

Yeah. That pesky L sneaks in, but at least I got the E right! Fixed. Thanks.

[cany10011]

It seems there are a lot of interest in museums i just watched the film “My Rembrandt” which talks about the personal pursuit for his masterworks as well as competition between museums for Rembrandt’s extant pieces that rarely come to the market.

https://filmforum.org/film/my-rembrandt

[Beancounter]

The Toy Museum in Paul’s Valley, Oklahoma

 

El Prado in Madrid, Spain.

[+ azdr0710]

For those interested in the Navajo Code Talkers of WW2, the exhibit at the Burger King in Kayenta, AZ, is a stunningly incredible trove.

 

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2901

[+ WilliamM]

Neue Gallery, New York City. Austria & German paintings and special Exhibits