What's your favorite museum?

[Bossy Monkey]

I'm eternally for the American Museum of National History myself. Loved Jeu de Paumes back in the day, but by the time the Impressionists collection had moved to Musee d'Orsay I had gone all cretin and actually walked right by rather than stand in line to get in. (I know, I know...) Also been to the Rijksmuseet, Prado, Louvre, the PhArt Museum (ie Philly), University Museum at Penn (probably my #2; I'm an archaeology geek), MoMA, the Met, the Tate, the British, the ROM, Museum of Man (Ottawa), the Pompidou Centre, all major Boston museums, all or nearly all of the Smithsonian, and assorted others.
How 'bout you?

[DemBones DemBones]

1. The Uffizi in Florence, the British Museum in London,

the Museum of Natural History in London, Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, are my faves.

[GumboYaYa]

17. The Uffizi is great, I also like the Rijks a lot.

The Rembrandts at the Rijks are phenomenal.

The last time I was at the Uffizi it was the first week it was reopened after the bombing. It was very disconcerting to stand next to guards armed with machine guns as you looked at the Carravagios.

[bif]

19. Hey Gumbo, how about the City Museum in St. Louis?

What a cool place. I like the Chicago Art Institute, The Tate in London and the Kunst Historiches (sp) Museum in Vienna. My favorite offbeat museum is the Mueeum of the Revolution in Sophia, Bulgaria.

[GumboYaYa]

26. My kids and I love the City Museum.

That is one fun place. How do you know the City Museum?

[bif]

27. We spent a couple days in St Louis a few years back

On our way back from CO. I think we picked up a brochure at the Arch and it looked interesting. My wife is working with a group developing a childrens museum here in Detroit so we visit other childrens museums if they sound cool. so may of them are just cookie cutter in nature. But the city Museum is one of the most unique museums I've ever been in--and actually it's several museums n one. I love the shoe store, the Greenwich Village "Hippie" cafe and the whole archectural/artifact area. That moviie they show outside is prfetty powerful and depressing. Reminds me of what they've done to Detroit.

[GumboYaYa]

31. It is very unique. I have often thought that calling it a museum

is a misnomer as there are so many other things to see and do that "museum" is kind of limiting.

I know the guy who owns the City Museum. If your wife ever wants to talk to him let me know.

[bif]

33. Thanks for the offer.

You're right aboutit being called a Museum. But, then again, what would you call it? A collection? It's such a mishmosh of diffeent things. Is the car still on the roof about to go over the edge? It's in an interesting part of town. We were there on a weekend and it seemed like a ghost town. Actually, a lot fo the dowhntown seemed like a gosht town. I loved the architecture there. Those old department stores and office buildings. Beautiful.

[GumboYaYa]

34. The car is still there, but I bet there are some new

fire escapes and other stairwells attached to the exterior that you probably did not see.

Downtown is coming back slowly. The Washington avenue are around teh museum has seen a lot of lofts recently. I would love to live down there.

[blackcat77]

2. Smithsonian Air and Space nt

[Lou_C]

3. Any

I love going to museums.

[Leilani]

4. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

I took a bunch of college classes based on the collections in the Museum. Most of my profs were on staff there, & we got to go into the storage rooms where they have everything not on display.

The Met is great...Ancient to Modern...& wonderful architectural & furniture design collection.

And after the Met, every other museum I have ever been to.

[Bake]

5. The Louvre

The Mona Lisa brought me to tears. That's never happened before. I've been to MOMA, Musee d'Orsee, etc., but the Louvre got me.

Bake

[maveric]

6. Boston: Museum of Science, Museum of Fine Arts, Peabody Museum

For the ones I've been to.
I want to visit the Baseball Hall of Fame someday.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

22. The Boston MFA is amazing!!

Topped only slightly by the National Gallery of Art

[huellewig]

7. I have been to the Louvre..

Hammurabi's Code of Laws was great but I enjoy OMSI the best. I'm a nerd.

http://www.omsi.org/

[Dookus]

8. gotta second the Uffizi

but I'll give honorable mention to the Ann Frank museum in Amsterdam. Not an art museum, but one can't help but be deeply moved by seeing the rooms she hid in.

[Teddy_Salad]

21. I second that one

A very emotional place to visit.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

9. The Liberace Museum, Las Vegas

It's fantastic. All his costumes, his cars and matching pianos (the mirrored pair ismy favorite), the beds he and his boyfriend slept in that belonged to some Russian Czar - I can't remember which one - and his jewelry. Highly recommended.

[Awsi Dooger]

10. Getty Museum, on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu

I went there a month ago and couldn't believe the major renovation has yet to be completed. The museum is still closed, after renovations that began in '97. I didn't go to the new Getty, somewhere in Los Angeles.

I have traveled extensively and been to most of the museums mentioned by undisclosedlocation. Some of them would take a week to adequately explore, notably the British Museum.

In particular, I was glad to see the mention of Ottawa. There are many excellent museums there, including the spectacularly located Canadian Museum of Civilization, in Hull on the Ottawa River just across from Parliament Hill. You can walk across the bridge to Parliament after visiting the museum. There is also a very convenient doubledecker tourist bus that includes stops at the Canadian War Museum, Canadian Aviation Musuem and the Royal Canadian Mint.

[Nile]

11. Peabody Museum of Natural History

New Haven, CT

[The empressof all]

12. There are so many

I love in no particular order....The Met, Uffizi, L Orangerie, Museum of Modern Art (NY), The Barnes Collection (outside of Philly-Incredible Place-you need to make an appointment) and the Philadelphia Art Museum because I worked there in 76 and got to know the art there very, very well. They have a great Man Ray collection. I also love the Natural History Museum in Victoria, BC, The Frick in NY for the furniture, and Madame Tussauds for the wax.

The Tenament Museum on Orchard Street in NY is cool too.

[pfitz59]

13. Penis Museum in Sicily!

Actually, its a bar!

[skippysmom]

14. Any museum

But then again, my field is museum work.

[GOPisEvil]

15. Art Institute of Chicago.

Go on Tuesdays - it's free!

[terrya]

18. Ditto about the Art Institute. I love the rooms in minature exhibits...

alone. :-)

[rucky]

30. pound-for-pound the best museum in America n/t

[Beware the Beast Man]

16. Cleveland Museum of Art

C-Town, IMO, is blessed to have an art museum of its caliber.

[devilgrrl]

32. I used to be a guard there back in the 80's

My fave gallery to watch over was the Pre-Columbian... no one ever came in, so you could read or doze off most of the time.

[Teddy_Salad]

20. The Sex Museum in Amsterdam

It's actually really well done and not tacky at all.

A must see if you visit Amsterdam.

:evilgrin:

[livetohike]

23. The Carnegie Museum in Pgh.

Natural history and art together. It's probably my sentimental favorite because it's the first museum I ever visited. The dinosaur exhibit is awesome.

[flamingyouth]

24. Art Institute of Chicago

I could spend days in there. Heck, I could LIVE there. I'm a paperweight collector, and those paperweights drive me wild.

[NoPasaran]

25. Shore Line Trolley Museum

In East Haven, Connecticut
http://www.bera.org/

[rucky]

28. Tie: The Prado & The Hermitage

been to both.

Prado for quality, Hermitage for quantity and the palace itself

[adriennel]

29. Museo Nacional de Anthropologia

in Mexico City is my favorite museum of all time. The Aztec calendar and more...

[Commendatori]

35. Air and Space Smithsonian in D.C.

I could spend 40 hours a week there and never get bored.