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bobbieinok

(12,858 posts) Wed Oct 25, 2017, 04:50 PM Oct 2017

What most impressive museum exhibits have you seen? Please add yours [View all]

* Venus of Willendorf in Vienna. After looking for it a long time, I finally asked for help. I was really shocked . It's very small.

* the Assyrian part of the British Museum. I deliberately sought out the Elgin Marbles because I had heard so much about them. Frankly I wasn't too impressed. And then I stumbled on the Assyrian stuff and was blown away.

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What most impressive museum exhibits have you seen? Please add yours [View all] bobbieinok Oct 2017 OP

Lounge? n/t USALiberal Oct 2017 #1

well the museum of sex in Amsterdam was pretty interesting... samnsara Oct 2017 #2

The Working Men's Institute Museum in New Harmony, Indiana Brother Buzz Oct 2017 #3

The John Lennon Museum in Tokyo was pretty cool miyazaki Oct 2017 #4

"Treasures of Tutankhaman" SonofDonald Oct 2017 #5

Lungs left-of-center2012 Oct 2017 #6

Was that at Museum of Science? cos dem Oct 2017 #35

It may have been Harvard left-of-center2012 Oct 2017 #37

Dali museum in St. Pete, FL. Amazing Lochloosa Oct 2017 #7

I loved the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam TexasBushwhacker Oct 2017 #8

I went to the Van Gogh museum in 1969... k8conant Oct 2017 #32

'64 World's Fair flotsam Oct 2017 #9

Same here (I was 13, though)! WinkyDink Oct 2017 #12

I saw the Pieta in Rome. smirkymonkey Oct 2017 #23

Me too. I think I was 8. Wonderful. n/t prairierose Oct 2017 #31

It is the most beautiful work of art I have ever seen CatMor Oct 2017 #54

The dollhouse collection ... NanceGreggs Oct 2017 #10

The doll house at Windsor Castle is amazing. dhol82 Oct 2017 #51

Co-sign on the Assyrian section! Plus the Sutton Hoo treasure, Sinaiticus Index, Shakespeare's First WinkyDink Oct 2017 #11

In Rome, near the Coliseum, there's a big stone foot. Down that path there's an exhibit of 300 bc mahina Oct 2017 #13

I've been to the major W. Euro ones, the various Kunstmuseums; the Louvre; Prado; Rijksmuseum, Van WinkyDink Oct 2017 #14

I loved the Kunsthistoriches museum in Vienna and the smirkymonkey Oct 2017 #24

Yes, sensory overload is a real thing! In the Louvre, I trailed a Japanese tour group, as I figured WinkyDink Oct 2017 #45

I also would say The Kon Tiki Museum in Oslo madaboutharry Oct 2017 #81

Museum of Bread iamateacher Oct 2017 #15

I have a couple favorites MLAA Oct 2017 #16

The heart at Ben Franklin Institute LeftInTX Oct 2017 #17

Oh, good lord! Where do I start... CTyankee Oct 2017 #18

Oh yes, I forgot about the Uffizi, the National Gallery, the MoMA and the Frick! smirkymonkey Oct 2017 #25

OMG, the Gardner! John Singer Sargent! What a place it is! CTyankee Oct 2017 #27

The Entire Oriental Institute at U of C AngryAmish Oct 2017 #19

Yep. The Oriental Institute is spectacular. GoCubsGo Oct 2017 #34

Luther's death mask bobbieinok Oct 2017 #20

I wish I could go to more Museums. Sigh... Saboburns Oct 2017 #21

BTW Chuck Yeager is active on twitter Saboburns Oct 2017 #22

I loved "The Lady in Gold" and Klimt is one of my favorites. smirkymonkey Oct 2017 #26

Being a airplane nut the Air and Space museum was a mind blower.. mitch96 Oct 2017 #56

Memorial de Caan martigras Oct 2017 #28

Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum -- including the story of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald k8conant Oct 2017 #29

My ancestors were Great Lakes shipbuilders... LisaM Oct 2017 #76

I recently had a chance to visit the MIM--Musical Instrument Museum. panader0 Oct 2017 #30

Here are two that we saw in the last year that surprised us because they were so good. karynnj Oct 2017 #33

My favorite museum is the Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles Airport in Virginia Stinky The Clown Oct 2017 #36

The Centenary Exhibition & related events to celebrate Marcel Duchamp's birth in 1887... GReedDiamond Oct 2017 #38

My friend and I have spent numerous Black Fridays peggysue2 Oct 2017 #39

The Code of Hammurabi Yupster Oct 2017 #40

The Jewels of the Romanov's Thekaspervote Oct 2017 #41

Two stand out: Nonhlanhla Oct 2017 #42

Pretty much the entirety of the British Museum. Codeine Oct 2017 #43

I remember seeing that as a kid in the late 70s? Freethinker65 Oct 2017 #59

Just came across Rosetti Stone while I was there bobbieinok Oct 2017 #80

A few things that I like/liked: Princess Turandot Oct 2017 #44

The bianzhong of the Marquis of Zeng in the Hubei Provincial Museum Marengo Oct 2017 #46

The Brittish Library display of ancient books cally Oct 2017 #47

I'll only add one unusual exhibit: Tracer Oct 2017 #48

The Gem and Mineral Exhibit in the American Museum of Natural History MineralMan Oct 2017 #49

That is a wonderful collection of gems and minerals however dhol82 Oct 2017 #53

Sadly, gem and mineral exhibits aren't attracting MineralMan Oct 2017 #55

Havent been back to the Smithsonian in over 30 years dhol82 Oct 2017 #60

The Smithsonian exhibit is always crowded. kwassa Oct 2017 #65

The Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Codeine Oct 2017 #69

It's a very nice exhibit, but is much MineralMan Oct 2017 #72

A number.... Adrahil Oct 2017 #50

200 Monets leftynyc Oct 2017 #52

Kennedy Space Center, Florida eleny Oct 2017 #57

Here are two workinclasszero Oct 2017 #58

I'm not religious at all NewJeffCT Oct 2017 #61

propaganda exhibit WW2 museum in new orleans dembotoz Oct 2017 #62

The memorial museum at Omaha GulfCoast66 Oct 2017 #63

Not a museum exhibition ornotna Oct 2017 #64

A huge Francisco Goya retrospective at the Prado in Madrid. kwassa Oct 2017 #66

Michelangelo's David. Mona Lisa maveric Oct 2017 #67

Mexico City, Museum of Anthropology, probably the world's best museum. L. Coyote Oct 2017 #68

I think the Louvre would beg to differ! WinkyDink Oct 2017 #71

Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre exhibit - National Art Gallery DC 2005 HughBeaumont Oct 2017 #70

African American museum in D.C. - Very Impressive lame54 Oct 2017 #73

One of my favorites is at the Chicago Art Institute MineralMan Oct 2017 #74

l'Orangerie and Rodin aikoaiko Oct 2017 #75

I saw an unforgettable Picasso exhibit in Montreal in the 1980s LisaM Oct 2017 #77

Forgot one - Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit LisaM Oct 2017 #78

Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" in the Uffizi. greatauntoftriplets Oct 2017 #79

This is a fantastic thread, by the way. LisaM Oct 2017 #82

Blue Babe, UAF Museum of the North. raven mad Oct 2017 #83

I saw the King Tut exhibit at the Los Angeles MOMA a couple of years ago. Initech Oct 2017 #84