Favorite Museum/Gallery
 

Whats your favorite Museum or Art Gallery?

I have a new pt job at the spy museum which will be interesting.

My favorite museum of all time is the Air and Space Museum. Coming in as a close second is the Franklin Institute in Philadephia. As a kid I loved going through the giant heart maze.

My favorite small museums are the Transit Museum and the Frick Collection. My favorite big museums are the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Field Museum - Chicago

Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History - Detroit. I went to visit when it first opened. My mommy's book was in one of the displays.:D

I really liked the Prado (sp?) in Madrid. And of course Le Louvre. Here in the US, the Western art museum in Fort Worth is very nice. There are also a couple of small but nice art museums up in Tulsa, OK (mainly western art).

I've heard great things about the OKC art museum and will soon be living accross the street. I'll have to visit.

The National Gallery of Art is pretty cool, they have the only Da Vinci painting in the Western Hemisphere and a lot of other cool paintings like Salvadore Dali's "Last Supper".

The Hirschorn. It's modern art.

In California: The Getty
In Chicago: The Art Institute
In NYC: I can't decide

-Rudey

The National Museum of Natural History.

Mostly because of the Hope Diamond.

BLING BLING!!!!!!


Matt (or anyone else in DC) Have you ever been to Tudor Place? I am thinking of visiting there this summer at some point.

Anybody been to the Hermitage?

Never been to tudor place.

For homes of different people

Mount Vernon the estate of George Washington is an interesting place. If you are in the dc area go visit.

Arlington House - Pre Civil War Home of Robert E. Lee is also interesting to check out. His estate was turned into a Cemetery.

Fredrick Douglas House - This house is off the beaden (sp) path but also worth visiting.

There's a bike trail that goes from Georgetown down to Mt. Vernon that I've been dying to take down there. It's 40 miles round trip though, I don't know if I'm ready for that.

Yeah its intense....Why dont you do the part from Old town to to Mount Vernon, or do the Georgetown Rosslyn leg?

Well I haven't been to many museums. Unfortunate, I know. I've never been to NYC. One day I will.

I've been, several times to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto, and The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto. I've been to The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) museum in Saskatchewan and The Field Museum in Chicago. I've been to some other smaller ones like the Sesquicentennial museum in Toronto.

I guess out of the ones I've been to, my favourite would be the ROM and the Field Museum.

The Dali Museum in St. Petersburg.

The Cleveland Museum of Art near Case Western Reserve University

the Getty and the MET

The Isabella Stewart Gardner, Boston
The Villa Borghese, Rome
Beauborg, Paris
Tate Modern, London

The Frick Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Cloisters (always makes me think of Marjorie Morningstar standing among the lilacs when I go there :) )
The Carnegie Museum of History (the first and still the best dinosaur collection I've ever seen)
The Hockey Hall of Fame (does that count??? :) )

Edited because how can I forget the Andy Warhol museum in my own hometown??? I think you need to be a Warhol fan to appreciate it, though. Otherwise it would get tiresome pretty quickly.

Musée d'Orsay, Paris

NYC: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

London: Tower of London (My inner princess loved the jewels.)

Paris: Musée du Louvre and Musée d'Orsay

Washington, DC: The Smithsonian
(I didn't realize that there were so many buildings that made up the Smithsonian until I visited.)

the smithsonian is 17 museums soon to be 18. 15 are in Washington DC and 2 are in New York. In the fall the National Museum of the American Indian will be opening on the mall in dc. I beleive thats the title but im not sure.

Oooh we went there last Sunday, it was absolutely beautiful!

I'd have to say that my favorite museums are the Uffizi in Florence and the Peggy Guggenheim collection in Venice. I got goosebumps looking at all the beautiful artwork at these places. :)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. THat place just gave me goosebumps. I particularly enjoyed the modern art wing (seeing Dali's work just about gave me a high!), and the musical instruments wing was incredible!!

it's not a typical museum, but the Exploratorium in San Fran is always fun.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/

"The musuem of science, art and human perception."

I liked the hands on stuff they have there.

while double dittoing earlier posts.
also consider...
rock and hall of fame in cleveland
baseball hall of fame.
ufo museum in roswell, nm.

The Uffizi is awesome. The day I went, the A/C was messed up, so it was almost painful to walk around there.

Could someone please say something other than the Met? It's like the Olive Garden of museums. A great general collection, but more exquisite collections exist.

What's wrong with the Met? I like the Met so I'll say the Met. I don't agree that "it's the Olive Garden of museums." That is a funny line though, lol. :)

I don't agree either. The "Bennigans of Museums," I might agree with.

Well, maybe since I come from an art history background, I expect more. Usually, people who have taken more than Art History 101 wouldn't say the Met.

It's respectable, and produces the top curators in the field. But it's pretty one-stop shopping.

Also, I used the Olive Garden referring to a thread over in Dating and Relationships.

I really hate to say this but I have no patience for museums at all...it drives everyone I know crazy. The Air and Space Museum bored me to tears except for getting to see the missles my dad used to play with...I did like a few of the Smithsonians in DC but I can't remember which ones offhand - I think American History. I don't remember anything in NY ever standing out to me, but then again, not too much art does - I'm just not an art girl.

Is there a comprehensive musuem on the slave trade in the US?

Yeah the air wasn't even turned on when we got there so it was pretty bad. Luckily we had a really hot tour guide named Rocky :cool: so we suffered through the heat to enjoy the museum and him. ;)

Most of you focused on art museums, but I have to break it down by type:

Historical: My ultimate favorite is Greenfield Village, an outdoor museum of actual buildings that Henry Ford has moved to this location. A courthouse that Lincoln practiced law in, a couple old school houses, the Wright Brother's first bicycle store (where they invented their first plane), a plantation complete with slave quarters, a chapel, Stephen Foster's home, the birthplace of Henry Ford, numerous stores, part of Edison's Menlo Park. It's an amazing place.

Art: Art Institute in Chicago, the Detroit Institute of Arts has some excellent exhibitions, but not counting those, Chicago's is better. (haven't been to too many art museums).

Science: COSI in Toledo is just wonderful. It beats out the Detroit Science Center and the Ann Arbor Hands on Museum by leaps and bounds. I went to one in Charlotte, NC once that I think was called Discover. That one was pretty cool too, but I really love COSI.

Dee

Good point. I did mention my beloved Transit Museum, but one that I forgot is the Ontario Science Centre. I was there only once, and about 25 years ago, but it was amazing!

You guys are all reminding me of what I should do when I am bored besides playing on GC. I need to take advantage of being around so many great museums.

Paris - the Orsay
Barcelona - the Picasso Museum
Cleveland - Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame
Chicago - Museum of Science and Industry (cheesy but fun)