What are some of your favorite museums you’ve been too?

[sherpa]

1 hour ago, BuffaloBud said:

Air Force Museum - Dayton

Pro Football Hall of Fame - Canton

 

Good call.

The Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola is fantastic as well.

The iconic O'Club of Naval Aviation was the Cubi Point, (Philippines) club.

It was home to Seventh Fleet, (Pacific) aviators when in port.

When the base was closed, they packed up a good deal of the interior and put it on an aircraft carrier and brought it back to the US, and is now at the P'cola museum.

It is really cool.

Many a  night in that O'club in the PI, some not completely remembered. 

Anyway, a fantastic museum in Pensacola, birthplace of Naval Aviation.

 

Edited November 22 by sherpa

[Sweats]

ROM - Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.......this museum is excellent stuff, man. They tend to change things up every couple of months to showcase new things. If you have a full 12 hours or even a weekend free, it is worth its weight in gold to visit.

 

Ottawa Museum - Ottawa, Ontario........i was so looking forward to this museum when i visited Ottawa and it was trash. I was through the whole exhibit in about 1 hour, there really wasn't much to see and it was a huge complete let down.

[GaryPinC]

Been to museums in Cleveland, NYC, Pittsburgh, Chicago and small ones out west so this one's gonna sound weird but the best family museum I've ever gone to is the Grand Rapids Public Museum.  If you're ever stuck around Grand Rapids, I highly recommend it.

 

They do an amazing job with their displays with a wide variety of items gathered from history and donors around that side of the state.  Art, fashion, paleontology, games, natural history, engineering history, war history.  It focuses on Western Michigan but has worldwide items donated by wealthy in the area.

 

They recreated an entire street from the 1890's with all the shops that you walk into to see the appropriate artifacts.  Aquarium tank with several young sturgeon from the Grand River.  A large finnback whale skeleton a local Dr. had bought in Florida and displayed in his front yard for a year before donating to the museum.😂

 

Interesting collection that keeps you from getting bored for 2-3 hours.

[muppy]

if you are ever in Sacramento CA they have a very respected Train Museum located there. I'm posting a link. Look at some of the pictures. It's Fantastic stuff

 

https://www.californiarailroad.museum/

[The Jokeman]

The Cleveland Museum of Art was a surprise as me and wife went to Cleveland solely to see Rock and Roll HOF and had some extra time to kill and stopped in.

 

The Art Institute of Chicago, it felt like I was walking into a movie as an 80s kid iykyk.

 

Of course The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC is a must see for anybody. I didn't get to spend a lot of time but it's still one of our country's best.

 

As Buffalo native gotta say adore the Albright Knox but haven't been since the rebuild but definitely will.

[RevWarRifleman]

Fort Niagara when I was a youth.  Loved the trip, but the history of it literally got me hooked  with American history in that era.

 

Another museum,  the Ann Frank House in Amsterdam, Holland. I went there when I was on leave in the Air Force.  This museum 

has had a profound impact on me! When the tour guide took us up the stairs where the Frank family stayed, I could only

IMAGINE the terror the Frank family had as those Nazi troopers rushed in on that fateful night!!!

    You can still see the pencil marks on the wall where Mr Frank measured the kids height each year. And when our group were

there, listening to the tour guide, he church bell sound because it was twelve noon. That's the same church bell that Ann wrote 

about in her diary, and how it gave her inspiration and calmness in such terrible circumstances!!

 

   That's my 2 cents.

 

 

Go Bills!!!

[dhg]

The Mob Museum in Las Vegas was excellent

 

https://themobmuseum.org

[That's No Moon]

Quebec 01 Missile Alert facility just north of Cheyenne, Wyoming. 

[DrW]

Art: Prado, Madrid (Spain). I was there about 50 years ago, and I still remember Velazquez' "Las Meninas".

Modern Art: MoMA, New York.

Both Dali museums are worthwhile, the one in St. Petersburg (Florida) and the one in Figueres (Spain).

Tram Museum ("Strassenbahnmuseum") Hannover (Germany). The special attraction: They let you drive a tram (20 minutes, $40; 1 hour, $110).

https://www.tram-museum.de/besucher/strassenbahn-selbst-fahren/

And finally, right here in Lubbock, the National Ranching Heritage Center, where they have collected farm buildings from all over Texas from 1780 to 1950.

[Another Fan]

Would love to go here

 

https://schulzmuseum.org

[ICanSleepWhenI'mDead]

If you like quirky and somehow find yourself in Zagreb, Croatia, I highly recommend the Museum of Broken Relationships:

 

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

 

It's a hoot!

 

 

 

 

[Fr. Jerk]

WWE HOF, ya dig?

[Augie]

On 11/21/2024 at 10:53 PM, US Egg said:

Was in D.C. about 30 yrs. ago for a week, doing the whole scene.

 

Wasn’t looking for it, didn’t know there was one, but came across and went in the U.S. Holocaust Museum.

 

I kind of wished I didn’t go in, unlike anything I ever experienced.

 

I understand. There is no emoji that respects that properly. 

[frostbitmic]

The Smithonian

Cleveland Museum of Art

ROM Toronto

Memorial Art Gallery - Rochester

[CookieG]

In the "what the hell is it doing in the middle of a prairie" category:

 

 

The Kansas Cosmosphere in Hutchinson Kansas.

Let the cute and bubbly Space Vixen give you a tour.

 

Some are mock ups, most are real.  

 

A Gemini Era Module,

A SR-71 Blackbird

the original Liberty Bell module after it was salvaged, (they restored it)...before it went on tour

 a ton of a Apollo artifacts

and the original Apollo 13 Command Module.

 

 They were the museum who built the Mission Control set for the Apollo 13 movie.

 

 

A nice detour if you are traveling on I-70 or I-35 through Kansas.  I beat the worlds 2nd largest ball of twine.

[Irv]

I would say my favorite is the "How to Spell Correctly Starting a Thread Museum".  

[Vetriano]

Met museum nyc- especially the sculptures.

 

london museum is great. Have amazing watches/clocks. Rosetta Stone, Elgin marbles. Highly recommend a highlight tour

[Orlando Buffalo]

If you are history buff the Hermitage was great along with the WWII museum in New Orleans, both are easily a full day of material. I will also state my opinion on the Dali museum in St. Pete, which is that it is interesting but I was done in about an hour, the cost was too high in my opinion, I went there before going to a Rays game and I had set aside 3 hours, so I had to kill the other two hours in a brewery down the street, so maybe I am being harsh. 

[jayg]

I've been to the big museums in LA, New York,  Chicago and all over Europe but I moved to Virginia when I was 5 and the Air and Space museum will always be my favorite. If you include Cathedrals the ones in Spain and Italy are exceptional. Field Museum 2nd and Prada 3rd to rank them. IMHO.

[Augie]

27 minutes ago, jayg said:

I've been to the big museums in LA, New York,  Chicago and all over Europe but I moved to Virginia when I was 5 and the Air and Space museum will always be my favorite. If you include Cathedrals the ones in Spain and Italy are exceptional. Field Museum 2nd and Prada 3rd to rank them. IMHO.

 

I’m not really a huge fan of museums or cathedrals, but Sagrada Familia in Barcelona is a stunning cathedral.  The stained glass gives you cool blues and greens in the morning sun, and reds and oranges at sunset. It feels like you can reach out and touch the light. It’s very hard to describe. I found it to be more impressive than the Sistine Chapel. 

 

As for museums, I preferred the d’Orsay in Paris over the Louvre. The art is just more relatable and basically the art chapter that came after the stuff in the Louvre. I was surprised to learn that the Mona Lisa was actually stolen long ago. It was felt that because it was relatively small and of a woman it was less important and might not be noticed or be a big deal. 

 

We took our grandson to the Museum of Natural History in NYC a couple summers ago. It was cool to see the museum again, and even better to see it with a wide eyed 9 year old boy.