Favorite Museum/Gallery

the Getty and the MET

[Munchkin03]

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

[KillarneyRose]

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.

[ADPiSAI]

Musée d'Orsay, Paris

[Peaches-n-Cream]

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.)

[MattUMASSD]

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.

[FAB*SpiceySpice]

Originally posted by Munchkin03

The Villa Borghese, Rome

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.

[sairose]

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!!

[CatStarESP4]

Metropolitan Museum of Art
American Museum of Natural History
West Valley Art Museum
The Louvre

Not exactly museums, but I like:
Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT (I used to go there a lot when I was a kid. Christmastime, the house smelled like mulberries) Here's the link!
Phelps House and Masaccoh Plantation in Simsbury, CT
Old Sturbridge Village (visitors learn about New England's past) in Sturbridge, MA Link

[norcalchick]

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.

[mmcat]

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

[Munchkin03]

Originally posted by FAB*SpiceySpice
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 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.

[Peaches-n-Cream]

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.

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by Peaches-n-Cream
I like the Met so I'll say the Met. I don't agree that "it's the Olive Garden of museums."

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

[Munchkin03]

Originally posted by Peaches-n-Cream
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.

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.