100 Museums I Want Most to Visit
Submitted by pianoshootis on Fri, 12/30/2005 - 04:10
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- Austrian Film Museum - Vienna, Austria
- Belvedere Gallery - Vienna, Austria
- Kunsthistorisches Museum - Vienna, Austria
- Middelheim Open Air Sculpture Museum - Antwerp, Belgium
- Horta Museum - Brussels, Belgium
- Royal Museum of Fine Art - Brussels, Belgium
- Museum of Art - Sao Paulo, Brazil
- National Gallery of Canada - Ottawa, Canada
- Palace Museum - Beijing, China
- Changchun World Sculpture Park - Changchun, China
- Shanghai Museum - Shanghai, China
- Stele Forest Museum - Xi'an City, China
- Henan Museum - Zhengzhou City, China
- National Gallery - Prague, Czech Republic
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina - Alexandria, Egypt
- Nubia Museum - Aswan, Eqypt
- Egyptian Museum - Cairo, Egypt
- Didrihsen Art Museum - Helsinki, Finland
- Kiasma - Helsinki, Finland
- Institut Lumiere - Lyon, France
- Museum of Fine Arts - Lyon, France
- Centre Pompidou - Paris, France
- Louvre - Paris, France
- Musee d'Orsay - Paris, France
- Bauhaus Museum - Berlin, Germany
- Deutsche Guggenheim - Berlin, Germany
- Pergamon Museum - Berlin, Germany
- Museum of Modern Art - Frankfurt, Germany
- Stadel Museum - Frankfurt, Germany
- Alte Pinakothek - Munich, Germany
- Acropolis Museum - Athens, Greece
- National Archaeological Museum - Athens, Greece
- National Museum - New Delhi, India
- National Gallery of Modern Art - South Mumbai, India
- Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art - Tehran, Iran
- Bargello National Museum - Florence, Italy
- Ufizzi Gallery - Florence, Italy
- Brera Art Gallery - Milan, Italy
- Vatican Museums - Vatican City, Italy
- Peggy Guggenheim Collection - Venice, Italy
- MOA Museum of Art - Atami, Japan
- Hakone Open-Air Museum - Hakone, Japan
- Meiji Mura - Inuyama, Japan
- Tokugawa Art Museum - Nagoya, Japan
- Nara National Museum - Nara, Japan
- Domon Ken Photography Museum - Sakata, Japan
- Miho Museum - Shigaraki-no-Sato, Japan
- National Museum of Western Art - Tokyo, Japan
- Tokyo National Museum - Tokyo, Japan
- Ube Open-Air Museum - Ube City, Japan
- National Museum of Contemporary Art - Seoul, Korea
- Rijksmuseum - Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Stedelijk Museum - Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Van Gogh Museum - Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Mauritshuis - Hague, Netherlands
- Kroller-Muller Museum - Otterlo, Netherlands
- Norwegian Museum of Cultural History - Oslo, Norway
- Sculpture Park - Oslo, Norway
- Calouste Gulbenkian Museum - Lisbon, Portugal
- Ponce Museum of Art - Ponce, Puerto Rico
- Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts - Moscow, Russia
- Tretyakov Gallery - Moscow, Russia
- State Hermitage Museum - St. Petersburg, Russia
- State Russian Museum - St. Petersburg, Russia
- Joan Miro Foundation - Barcelona, Spain
- Museu Picasso - Barcelona, Spain
- Museo Guggenheim - Bilbao, Spain
- Dali Theater-Museum - Figueres, Spain
- Museo Reina Sofia - Madrid, Spain
- Prado - Madrid, Spain
- Skansen - Stockholm, Sweden
- Swedish Museum of Natural History - Stockholm, Sweden
- Zentrum Paul Klee - Bern, Switzerland
- Kunstmuseum - Winterhur, Switzerland
- Kunsthaus - Zurich, Switzerland
- National Palace Museum - Taipei, Taiwan
- National Museum - Bangkok, Thailand
- Topkapi Palace - Istanbul, Turkey
- Ephesus Museum - Selcuk, Turkey
- British Museum - London, UK
- National Gallery - London, UK
- Serpentine Gallery - London, UK
- Tate - London, UK
- Victoria and Albert Museum - London, UK
- Wallace Collection - London, UK
- Art Institute of Chicago - Chicago, USA
- Museum of Science and Industry - Chicago, USA
- J. Paul Getty Museum - Los Angeles, USA
- Fallingwater - Mill Run, USA
- Guggenheim Museum - NYC, USA
- Metropolitan Museum of Art - NYC, USA
- Museum of Modern Art - NYC, USA
- Mutter Museum - Philadelphia, USA
- Philadelphia Museum of Art - Philadelphia, USA
- George Eastman House - Rochester, USA
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - San Francisco, USA
- Salvador Dali Museum - St. Petersburg, USA
- National Gallery of Art - Washington, USA
- Smithsonian Institution - Washington, USA
- Albin Polasek Museum - Winter Park, USA
The Pompidou's not really that great. I mean they have some great stuff of course, I remember a particularly great Francis Bacon, and a Jackson Pollock, but there's an awful lot of bullshit too, and it doesn't have a great atmosphere to it imho. There is a cool arthouse cinema just near it though, I remember they were having an Ozu retrospective when I was there.
I've only been to six of the ones on your list (actually I think I spent about two minutes in the Museu Picasso in Barcelona, so I guess it's seven). The Uffizi is top of my list of ones I want to go to.
The Pompidou looks pretty nifty to me, from the photos anyway. And I understand they have a huge collection of Man Ray, who j'adore. Hopefully I'll be able to make a firsthand assessment later this year. I do want to go to the Cinematheque Francaise, mostly for the history.
Among all of these museums, I have only been to the Rijksmuseum.
For the Louvre you'll need several days. But at least it's free.
If you ever get the chance to visit Luxembourg, one of the few really interesting museums is "Family of Man" by Edward Steichen. Great collection of photographies.
Thanks for the heads up. I've never heard of Steichen. I've barely heard of Luxembourg.
I've been to several of the museums on your list. I will like to go to many more on your list. Your list does not have any museums in S. America.
Museo Natonal de Bellas Artes. Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Beunos Aires. Buen os Aires, Argentina
Museu de Arte de Moderna. Rio de Janero, Brazil
Museo del Nacional de Bellas Artes. Santiago, Chile
Fundacion Guzyasamin. Quito, Ecuador
Museo de la Inquisition. Lima, Peru
Museo Nacion de Antropologia, Archeologia e Historia. Lim a, Peru
Casa Carciaso. Cusco, Peru$
I do have one South American museum on my list, but I should probably have more. Specifically, I'm looking to kick off the San Francisco MoMA when I find a replacement. Do you know of English language websites for those you listed?
I am not sure of English language website, but I know that you can find some for the museums. You can always go on the travel book sights like Fodders to get information on them in English. I have traveled a lot in South America and speak Spanish. n
Here are the museums that I have been to on the list:
France:
Pompidou. The top floor is the only redeeming floor in the museum. The rest is crap.
Louvre. Wonderful museum, but need to spend more than a day there.
Musee d'Orsay. Fabulous museum. The best museum in Paris.
Greece:
Acropolis Museum. Interesting museum, but it dwarfs compared to the National Archeological Museum in Athens.
U.S.A.
Art Institute of Chicago. Great museum.
Museum of Science and Indstry. It was O.K. More geared for kids. (Chicago)
Guggenheim Museum. Fabulous museum. Wonderful collection and great atmosphere. (New York)
MOMA. Best museum in New york.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It was a wonderful museum.
National gallery of Art (DC). Wonderful museum.
Smithsonian. The Smithsonian is a series of different museums that are incredible.
Turkey
Ephasus Museum. Incredible look at Ancient Greek art.o