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8. I loved the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam

Wed Oct 25, 2017, 06:30 PM

Oct 2017

but it's been over 40 years since I visited it. I also love the O'Keeffe museum in Santa Fe.

For an individual exhibit, I really enjoyed the Chocolate exhibit at the Field Museum in Chicago in 2002. It started with how the cocoa plant grows, the pods etc. Then it went through the extraction process, the history of chocolate from the bitter drink of the Aztecs, to the addition of sugar and milk that give us the chocolate we have today. It was a travelling exhibit that went around the country.

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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