I’ll be heading to NYC in a couple of weeks for a business trip + a few extra vacation days and I plan to visit the the Guggenheim while there and finally see The Met’s Cloisters. It got me to thinking that I have been very fortunate to have already gone to some amazing collections and seen such amazing art and archeological artifacts. Thanks to my parents and living in Houston, I have been going to museums since I was little and always try to research and visit one museum per major trip. I have been fortunate enough to have visited huge institutions like El Prado (Madrid) and the Louvre as well as small museums focused on one artist (Miro, Picasso) or that were actually once private collections (these are typically my favorites, they are more intimate ). I have seen every major artist – Picasso, Monet, Manet, Cezanne, Mondrian, Caravaggio, Velasquez, Klee, Seurat, Ernst, Leger, O’Keefe, Kandinsky, Gaugin, Warhol, Dali, Matisse, Magritte, Sargent, Renoir, Goya, El Greco, da Vinci, Miro, Rothko, Lichtenstein, Haring, and more (I lean towards the impressionist & more modern names though, can’t you tell?). Anyway, I started to make a list of the museums I’ve visited – since this is from memory I am sure I am missing some…
Do you have any favorite museums? Any you love that aren’t on my list that I must go see if I get a chance?
- El Prado
- The Louvre
- High Museum of Art – Atlanta
- SFMOMA
- Various Smithsonian museums – Air & Space, Natural History
- Hirsshorn – DC
- National Portrait Gallery – DC
- National Gallery of Art – DC
- The Met – NYC
- Archeology Museum of Barcelona
- Archeological Museum of Tarragona
- Centre de Cultura Contempornia de Barcelona
- Kimbell Art Museum
- Nasher Sculpture Center
- Phillips Collection – DC
- San Antonio Museum of Art
- The Staatsgalerie – Stuttgart
- Houston CAM
- Museum of Science & Industry – Chicago
- Houston Museum of Natural Science
- Museu Picasso – Barcelona
- The Fundacio Joan Miro – Barcelona
My Favorite Museums:
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Definitely the Uffizi Gallery in Firenze! Definitely one to see at least once in a lifetime!
I went to the New York Earth Room, many years ago. Quite meditative. And it was free at the time. Consider visiting and it’s a quick one.
http://www.diaart.org/sites/main/earthroom
Leslie – I was in Florence back in ’98 but it was the height of summer, it was scorching hot and packed with tourists so we didn’t visit the Uffizi. I will definitely add it to my list for when I return!
Eric – I will be in NYC in a week and a half – I will check that out! Thank you!