Man… For my all time favorite museum, I’m gonna have to go Non-European and say the MEt in New York.

My Favorite pice of artwork, without a doubt, is the David in Florence. Amaaaazing…

My favourite museum is the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. It’s quite new, very well thought-out in the way the collections are presented (basically, you start with geology in the basement and walk up through the history of Scotland, with the 20th century on the top floor), and a really neat building that complements the diverse collections. (I’m doing a Master’s in Museum Studies, so I tend to look a lot at HOW a museum presents things, as well as just what kind of collections it has on offer).
Others that I’ve really enjoyed include (in no particular order):
– Museum of London
– Glasgow Transport Museum
– London Transport Museum
– British Museum (of course)
– People’s Story (Edinburgh)
– The Met
– American Museum of Natural History
– Ellis Island

Sorry about the geographic limitation, but my travels in continental Europe date back to my teen years, when I was more interested in shopping than culture!!

My favourite museums:

Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp
Roman-German museum in Cologne
Pergamon in Berlin
Vojvodina I museum in Novi Sad
Book of Kells exhibition at Trinity College, Dublin

My favourite museum is the Vasa museum in Stockholm!!

My favourite museums/art galleries are:

* The Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI) in London

• The National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery in London
  
• Design museums everywhere!

Some of the more unusual museums I’ve been to:

* The St Mungo Museum of Religious Art and Life in Glasgow, Scotland

• The Alimentarium (Food & Nutrition Museum)in Vevey, Switzerland
  
• Skansen, the open-air museum in Stockholm, Sweden

Also liked the Archaeological Museum in Tripoli, Greece because it was almost empty AND you could touch some of the exhibits – never been so close to something that existed BC!!

P.S. Didn’t make it to the Vasa Museum, but I’ve heard it’s good!

Oh, and I almost forgot, The Crafts Council Gallery in Islington, London.
Maybe i’m biased because I worked as a receptionist there for 3 months, but theres some interesting stuff there.

There’s so many good ones around the world, but I really find the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore fascinating. The Kimchi Museum in Seoul was certainly a different experience. I like any museum with works by Paul Klee, and I thought the Musee National Picasso in Paris was very nicely organized to present the art well.

One piece of unusual art, tough. Maybe some of the entries in the American Visionary Art Museum’s annual kinetic sculpture race.

Anyway, I like Klee’s "Scenecio" and "Der Graue und die Kuste" and Picasso’s "Minotauromachy." There’s also an 18th century Korean scroll painting titled "Tiger and Bamboo" that I’ve always enjoyed.

My Favorites, in no special order

Hermitage (St Petersburg, Rus)-sentimental value because it was where I first fell in love with museums

Borghese Gallery (Rome, It) -simply beautiful and not overwhelming, also houses one of my favorite statues, Berninni’s Appolo and Daphne

Rodin’s House (Paris, Fr)- the entire place seemed to breathe creativity

The d’Orsay (Paris, Fr)- although the floor plan was confusing the art made up for it, I could spend weeks just in the immpressionist galleries

The Met- no explanation required

Petra (Jordan)- the whole place is an outside museum – so stunning

My favorite museums:

The Met and the Louvre for the magnitude of their collections
Musee d’Orsay: loved the fact that it was a converted station – and of course the art
The Hermitage, Peterhof and Catherine’s Palace – so beautiful

Architecture:
The symmetry of the Avenue d’ Champs d’elysses is laid out in Paris
The Cologne Dom

The Met in NYC. one of the finest and most fascinating museums in the world. plus they dragged a cloister over from France and have a great medieval european art collection uptown.

the tenement museum in nyc. they have a replica of an old tenement and furnished it so you can imagine how it was to be an exploited garment worker. actually it was an actual old tenement, great guides, and they also use the museum to educate people about exploited garment workers in chinatown and around the world today.

Pergamon in Berlin
Technical Museum in Belrin (science). It’s great. they have working windmills, models of old steam engines, and everything!
Munich science museum. largest of its kind in the world. i wish i had visited it more than once. a great lightning exhibit!

Thought I’d send this up again… see what the Eurotrippers returning from Europe have to add.

And to add that one of the coolest thing I saw in N. America was the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec and where it’s located…

I’m surprised that no one’s mentioned the Vatican Museum in Rome…I mean, the Sistine Chapel, come on! There’s lot’s of Virgin Mary paintings that get a little monotonous, but there’s also tons of other interesting things, such as the room with all these musical instruments, like a predecessor of a predecessor of the piano and an original Stradivarius violin. There’s so much to see there…I need to go back!

The Tate Modern in London is also really cool…they’ve got some scary artwork there! (Scary in a good way.)

My least favorite: the Theatre Museum in London. Has virtually no connections to theatre, and the staff don’t seem to know what they’re talking about. Might be entertaining to a three-year-old. Even though it’s free, it’s a complete waste of time.

documenta 11, Kassel/Dld., topic globalization www.documenta.de also in english
expo 02 in Switzerland

Die Alte Pinakothek in Muenchen (Germany) : biggest collection of Rubens works…

Anyone been to the Deutches Musuem in Munich… I compared it to a couple of other science & technology museums that I’ve been to in the US (e.g. Chicago). It’s really interesting how some things, i.e. exhibits at science museums, are so similar, no matter where you go.

i don’t know many other scientific museums but i have been to the Deutsches Museum many times and i think it is great. also where it is located – on a small island called Museumsinsel in the river Isar – one can walked to the Englischer Garten from there etc., easy to reach by public tansport.
and they have the Dt. Museum Flugwerft in Oberschleissheim with all the airplanes on a former airport. very interesting, also the combination of new and old architecture there !

I like that museum also in Stockholm!

The National Railroad Museum in York is great fun. Did not expect to enjoy it nearly as much as I did. They have these ‘catwalks’ over the shops where you can sit and watch the men working on restorations, the warehouse section is also fully open and it’s amazing the sort of stuff they have in there. The old signs are fun!

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam was the best ‘information’ museum I visited. The audio tour is terrific….85% or better of the works have a very detailed description. As opposed to The Louvre where at best 15% have any info at all. Spent all that money to get there, nice to really understand what I am looking at.

The vatican Museum…….everything from mummies to moonrocks! One day was not enough to really see it all, so I went back a second day and felt the money well spent.

For sheer ‘stop you dead in your tracks’ though, the Accademia in Florence can’t be beat. Come around the corner and there stands The David looking back at you……breathtaking I thought.

Also really liked the Rodin in Paris. Intimate, informative and ‘peaceful’. And some wonderful views from the gardens to boot.

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I like that museum also in Stockholm!

and which one is ‘that’ ?

Having just come back from Scandanavia my favourites ‘at the moment’ are the VASA in Stockholm and the FRAM MUSEUM in Oslo

some I’d like to add to my list above:

In Flanders Fields in Ieper, Belgium
TechnikMuseum in Berlin

I love to go to museums in general. I’ve never been to one I didn’t like. On my last trip to Europe, I really enjoyed the Imperial War Museum and Sir John Soane’s museum in London. Gotta mention that I’m loving the fact that the museums in London are free now!

The British Museum & The Children’s Museum in Indianapolis,IN are some all time faves. Plus, I mean, c’mon, the Smithsonian!

I’m really bad at picking a single favorite of anything. Favorite &quotiece" of architecture would probably have to be Union Terminal in Cincinnati. Really cool art deco building. It houses 2 museums now, too!

Unusual piece of art: In Austin, TX every year they have an Art Car parade, and my senior year of college some students at my unversity built an enormous car shaped like a skull. It was built on the frame of a friend of mines old Geo Metro, too. It was bizarre and strangely impressive.

Some of the best museums I’ve visited are:

Käthe Köllwitz Museum – Köln
Vasa Museum – Stockholm
People’s Palace – Glasgow
Kilmainham Gaol – Dublin
Genocide Museum – Vilnius
Checkpoint Charlie Museum – Berlin
Anne Frank House – Amsterdam
Sigmund Freud Museum – Vienna

Galleria Borghese in Rome. Bernini’s statues are so beautiful, I actually cried. I’ve seen a good share of museums in Europe and the Americas, and this one is not one to miss. :o)

Hands down my favorite museum was the rodin museum in Paris. It was a managable size with quality work. I loved this place and highly recommend it.

about 2 months ago, I visited southern germany.

Visited various places, including 4 car museums. I rank them as follows:

1. Audi
2. Mercedes
3. BMW
4. Porsche

Also enjoyed the Flugzeugweft Schleissheim, the aviation/aerospace annex for the Deutsches Museum.
Not many German WWII aircraft, there. I found out that many such artifacts are at the Garber facility in Silver Hill, MD. Visited that place about 2 weeks ago, and saw a great deal of Jpnz and German WWII aircraft. Also tons of other stuff, including a flying saucer, a few missiles, various experimental aircraft, etc.

The Garber facility is the storehouse and repair shop for the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Air and Space is planning to open a new huge hangar near Dulles airport (probably in Nov.) called the Udvar-Hazy Center that’ll exhibit over 200 aircraft and space vehicles.

I love Louvre, but is certainly overwhelming.

My favourite museum is Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (Art History Museum). http://www.khm.at/ho…

The museum itself is so beautiful, the building and the pieces of art they have.

My favourite art piece is Michaelangelo’s Madonna with child sculpture at Brugge.

As an art history student my favorite all time museum is the MET, in NYC, by far! I practically grew up there and still each time I go, there is something new and wonderful and even reliving old exhibits are just as exiting.

My favorite museums after the MET are small ones: The Frick Collection, also NYC, the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, and The Musee Marmottan, Paris, and the Asia Society, also NYC.

I also like the D’Orsay, Paris and the Riyksmuseum, Amsterdam, oh and the Natural History Museum, NYC because it takes me back to my childhood.

Least favorite: The Louvre, for such an amazing collection, it’s just such a shame that it’s a closterphobic overstuffed palace. Each time I’m in Paris I try to give it another shot, and each time after one hour, I find myself running out of there. It’s really too bad they cram that place so bad you can’t appreciate any of the work.

I don’t know if it’s my favorite, but we sure need the propaganda.

El Papalote, Museo del Ninio.

That would be the Kite, or the kiddy museum in Mexico City. It is a museum especially dedicated to children, their slogan is "toca, juega y aprende", or "touch, play and learn".

When they opened this place, you were not allowed inside without a kid, the opposite of conventional museums. And tickets sell really fast, you have to buy them a couple of days in advance.

People complained about the kid thing, and they opened up a special night for adults, which is on thursday. I went with a goth I was dating, and even he was stripped of his tough-melancholic mask, we had the time of our lives.

i like the british museum of archaiology in london (the worlds art and history in one place) although u feel disapointed when u get out of it and voila your back in moisty dark london after a colourful civilisations ‘‘travel’‘.

in cyprus i like koureium ancient theater (amazing view of the blue sea) and Appolo Ylates Sanctuary nearby. in greece i love Sounion, The Parthenon and Benaki Museum of ancient Pottery. ALso the archaiological museum of Athens is a m a z i n g if ur into the ancient greek world. (i liked afrodite’s human sized statue trying to avoid a satyr and the little tiny astonishing statutes made of pure gold). i could go on for ever…