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

[jayg]

11 minutes ago, Augie said:

 

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. 

Oh my,  can't believe I didn't mention Sagrada, I literally took over 1,000 pictures whilst there.  

[JÂy RÛßeÒ]

Pro Football HoF - Canton
Rock and Roll HoF - Cleveland

Baseball HoF - Cooperstown

Most of the Smithsonian museums (Air and Space being favorite) - DC
Field Museum - Chicago
Museum of Natural History - NYC
Museum of Pop Culture - Seattle

Boeing Museum of Flight - Seattle

Strong Museum of Play - Rochester

Rochester Museum and Science Center - great with the kids

Eastman House / Susan B Anthony House & Museum - Rochester

US Space & Rocket Center - Huntsville AL
Kennedy Space Center - Cape Canaveral FL

Here in Richmond - VMHC (Virginia Museum of History and Culture), Science Museum of Virginia and VMFA (Virginia Museum of Fine Art).  Lots of Civil War stuff I still need to get to, although it's painted a slightly different way down here...

Edited Monday at 04:40 PM by JÂy RÛßeÒ

[jayg]

2 minutes ago, JÂy RÛßeÒ said:

Pro Football HoF - Canton
Rock and Roll HoF - Cleveland

Baseball HoF - Cooperstown

Most of the Smithsonian museums (Air and Space being favorite) - DC
Field Museum - Chicago
Museum of Natural History - NYC
Museum of Pop Culture - Seattle

Boeing Museum of Flight - Seattle

Strong Museum of Play - Rochester

Rochester Museum and Science Center - great with the kids

US Space & Rocket Center - Huntsville AL
Kennedy Space Center - Cape Canaveral FL

Here in Richmond - VMHC (Virginia Museum of History and Culture), Science Museum of Virginia and VMFA (Virginia Museum of Fine Art).  Lots of Civil War stuff I still need to get to, although it's painted a slightly different way down here...

Me too in Richmond.  When I was a kid, the museum,  whatever they call it now,  had the Fabergé Egg collection pass through.  I thought they were awesome.  Now I remember the freedom train for the bicentennial , pretty cool. 

[BritBill]

Egyptian Museum - Cairo. Totally fascinating and historic. Just ignore the bullet holes on the front wall where Islamist fundamentalists shot at some German tourists. 
 

Natural History Museum - London. So fascinating and always something different to see when you go.

 

Slightly different and not technically a museum but Ripley’s Aquarium in Toronto is the best of its kind I’ve ever been to. 

[Pecos Bills]

On 11/21/2024 at 1:43 PM, ExiledInIllinois said:

Brooks in Memphis is decent 

 

https://www.brooksmuseum.org/

 

Also in Memphis, the National Civil Rights Museum is very powerful.  And of course, Graceland is worth seeing at least once in life.

 

[PromoTheRobot]

The Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, FL.

 

https://www.thedali.org

 

 

 

Edited 16 hours ago by PromoTheRobot

[Ned Flanders]

23 hours ago, Orlando Buffalo said:

WWII museum in New Orleans

Can't believe I didn't mention that in my earlier post...I went when it was just the D-Day Museum...got there about 1:00pm and they had to chase me out when they closed at 5:00.  Could have spent several more hours there.  

 

I understand the expanded museum, covering all of WWII, is excellent.  Need to get down there to see it.  

[Orlando Buffalo]

42 minutes ago, Ned Flanders said:

Can't believe I didn't mention that in my earlier post...I went when it was just the D-Day Museum...got there about 1:00pm and they had to chase me out when they closed at 5:00.  Could have spent several more hours there.  

 

I understand the expanded museum, covering all of WWII, is excellent.  Need to get down there to see it.  

I went in 2021, I think, and it was not completely finished but close to it, and we were there from 9 am to 4 pm and left because my daughter was so hungry, my son was willing to forget his hunger in order to continue and he was 16 at the time. 

[CaseyatBat]

If museums are your thing you gotta go to Washington, DC. Nice museums, totally free. IMO it makes the city a top vacation destination.

 

to go to 5 museums anywhere else you would go broke with a family 

 

 

Edited 15 hours ago by CaseyatBat

[BillsPride12]

We have some well cultured folks on this board 👍

[Pecos Bills]

The Armstrong Air & Space Museum in Neil Armstrong's hometown of Wapakoneta OH is a fun little museum for the family: it's free with an Ohio History Connection membership.

 

https://www.armstrongmuseum.org/

[LewPort71]

National museum of History in London in 2022.  Fantastic Museum.

On that same trip we went to a Viking Museum in Reykjavik.

 

 

[JÂy RÛßeÒ]

The International Spy Museum in DC was pretty cool