Your favorite museum!

[Chrish]

Visiting museums has always been a hobby of mine. Recently I had an opportunity to visit two of the main museums in NYC: Metropolitan Museum of Art and American Natural History Museum.

I have been particularly impressed with the Met to an immense degree. It's such a treasure trove!! It's got to be the most encyclopedic art museum anywhere on the globe. In fact I can't already wait to go back to NYC specifically to visit Met!

What are your favorite museums that you have visited?

 

[saadibaba]

Guggenheim for its architecture and flow but Met is huge and really is a treasure trove in terms of the art it carries. Saw the iconic Andy Warhol Campbell soup paintings there. I also really enjoyed MoMa, very eclectic and inspiring.

Washington DC is probably second to NYC for the variety and quality of museums it has to offer. I particularly liked the National gallery of art museum there. They have a very nice collection of Monet's paintings.

The art institute in Chicago is grand and excellent as well. They had the Edward Munch's exhibition going on at that time. Got myself a "The Scream" coffee mug, typical tourist buy.

 

[Chrish]

Guggenheim for its architecture and flow but Met is huge and really is a treasure trove in terms of the art it carries. Saw the iconic Andy Warhol Campbell soup paintings there. I also really enjoyed MoMa, very eclectic and inspiring.

Washington DC is probably second to NYC for the variety and quality of museums it has to offer. I particularly liked the National gallery of art museum there. They have a very nice collection of Monet's paintings.

The art institute in Chicago is grand and excellent as well. They had the Edward Munch's exhibition going on at that time. Got myself a "The Scream" coffee mug, typical tourist buy.

Another art lover there!

We didn't get a chance to visit MOMA and Cloisters which is supposed to be like a medieval palace. Heck I could only spend a day and half at Met. There just wasn't enough time..

Smithsonian is at the top of my do list. In fact I had previously planned the trip to D.C. this September but then I found out that Freer Art Gallery that specializes in Asian art will be closed till October. So I might have to delay the trip

 

[Leo23]

washington dc has some of the best museums in the world.

 

[Varun]

I live in Bangalore and the HAL Aerospace Museum has been footsteps away from home all along, but I've never bothered to check it out until quite recently - and it's a diamond in the rough! There are full scale models of all of HAL's offerings over the years: the HAL HF-24 Marut, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21, HAL Dhruv, HAL Tejas, you name it.

The indoor galleries are partitioned by decade and are just as diverse in their collection of aircraft and armaments, complete with nifty tidbits about the IAF plastered on the walls around. For 50 bucks a pop, you can try out the simulators as well - particularly the smashing ones modeled around the Sukhoi Su-30MKI, though that frame was conspicuous by its absence in the outdoors.

For members from Bangalore - the museum is on the Old Airport Road on the opposite side to the airfield and just past the Touchdown building. Have fun if you want to take a couple of hours off of your next weekend and stop by!

 

[proud_pakistani]

Really like Victoria and Albert in London. I havent been to the USA but I guess they must have amazing museums.

 

[kaayal]

The Deutsche Museum of science and technology.Insha Allah, I will definitely take my future kids there. .

 

[Chrish]

Really like Victoria and Albert in London. I havent been to the USA but I guess they must have amazing museums.

London has some great museums. V & A, Natural History, National Gallery and British museum would be in my must-see list if I ever tour there.

Collection in British museums is the most comprehensive on planet. Although they aren't as big in exhibition space as some of the fortresses from Europe/ USA

 

[saadibaba]

Another art lover there!

We didn't get a chance to visit MOMA and Cloisters which is supposed to be like a medieval palace. Heck I could only spend a day and half at Met. There just wasn't enough time..

Smithsonian is at the top of my do list. In fact I had previously planned the trip to D.C. this September but then I found out that Freer Art Gallery that specializes in Asian art will be closed till October. So I might have to delay the trip

That is the problem with me as well. I can spend all day in a normal size museum and especially if I take the guided or audio tour. When one is visiting, the time factor is always a problem.

I live in Nashville and the local Frist Center museum has decent exhibitions as well. I saw a really neat Kandinsky exhibition a couple of years ago and got inspired by one of the paintings at display so much that its my avatar now. They did a Samurai exhibition recently which was interesting as well. I am not much into Asian art but someone into it would have liked it ever better.

 

[Robert]

washington dc has some of the best museums in the world.

The Holocaust Museum is extremely jarring and moving.

 

[Slog]

Met .

I was there only for an hour and half. I feel I didnt even scratch the surface of it

 

[Chrish]

Met .

I was there only for an hour and half. I feel I didnt even scratch the surface of it

Need at least 2 whole days and even that might not be enough.. it's endless!