Musée Robert Tatin. Robert Tatin created an Univers of art naïf around his tiny house that become later a museum.
It’s a mix of sculpture and painting, outside and inside. People will find it weird and strange. I found it amazing and representative of a society.
The Dalí museum in Figueres, Spain. Just nice whacky art all over the place.
No idea. Last time I was there was about 20 years ago. Would love to take my children.
That place is so surreal. Hands down my favorite experience
Honorable mention for the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.
The DaVinci museum in Venice is pretty really good. It’s not too big but it’s interactive and concise (especially considering the works of DaVinci).
I love the tar pits in Los Angeles, the orsay in Paris, the Picasso museum in Barcelona, the sixth floor in Dallas, and any of the DC museums.
Probably Musee d’Orsay in Paris. It holds many of the most famous paintings ever. You can walk right up to each piece and get a close look. And it has several nice cafés where you can sit and have lunch or a coffee. It’s very chill.
By comparison, the Louvre is a mad house, the popular stuff is roped off, and the cafés are more like a snack bar.
If you’re into U.S. (pop) culture, I think it’s hard to beat the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. It’s got historic aircraft, movie props, costumes, etc. Fun stuff. And it’s mostly/all? free so you can spend the day going in and out, having lunch nearby in DC, seeing famous monuments right outside, etc.
Another one in the US is The Getty in LA. Absolutely gorgeous inside and out and also has an appearance in a ton of media, including the final shootout in GTA V. It was really surreal getting to walk through the place having seen it so many times before.
There is an amazing art museum in Detroit. The Detroit Institute of Arts doesn’t have the most famous paintings, but I prefer seeing lesser-known works anyway.
I love the DIA!
It’s been a good while since I’ve visited, but I would love to go again.
We really enjoyed the Milwaukee Public Museum. It was comparable to the natural history museums in Chicago and DC, but it was a little more current and extremely well maintained. We’ve been back and expect to visit again.
I finally got to see a Saturn V up close last year, as well as the control room for the moon landings. I’ve always wanted to visit, and last year I found myself on a Houston work trip with a day to spare.
KSC museum in Cape Canaveral Florida is similarly awesome. They have tons of rockets and other stuff from the space race and shuttle eras
The main thing I took from KSC is that massive 50+ mile long road from the Orlando area towards Cape Canaveral, just such an American design.
The site and tour was amazing though - particularly the memorial set up like a space mirror, that was particularly poignant.
When I visited Florida a few years ago there weren’t any daytime launches - but I did hoof the youngest out of bed at 2am to watch from Orlando on a livestream and see the orange flame in the distance heading to the sky. The poor kid had a “bro wtf” look on his face but hey, there ain’t many British kids who can say they’ve seen a rocket go up into space.
I liked the People’s History Museum in Manchester, UK. I also liked the Coal Mining Museum as a kid
Rijksmuseum van oudheden in Leiden in the Netherlands.
As a kid in the early 80s I used to go there often. It was free then and had and still has a lot of artifacts from Egyptian, Roman and Greek history. Also Leiden is a nice place to visit anyway.
Also Museum Volkenkunde Leiden (now Wereldmuseum Leiden).
I visited Guedelon castle, a site were they are building a medieval castle the medievall way since 1997. It’s about two thirds finished now.
It’s surrounded by people working trades, just like back in the day. There’s a water mill, pottery, blacksmiths, masons, pigment makers and everything.
It’s living history, not in the American way were they pretend to be from the period, but people into crafts you can ask stuff.
It’s one of the more unique muséal expériences I’ve had.
I loved the visit too.
The work they do with historians is really interesting, when they need informations about how people where doing X at this period the historian guide them but sometimes the historian have several contradicting theories so they test the theory on the site and report to the historian which one is actually working.
The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles should get a mention for being so weird.
Singapore’s cultural history museum was my fave. Small but well designed and explained everything that led up to Singapore existing in a walking format. It wasn’t exactly large.
Air and Space in DC. You can touch a fucking piece of the moon!
The seaplane museum in Tallinn, Estonia. Almost a perfect museum.
