Here is a Museumgeek Top 10*
1. Borghese Gallery, Rome
2. Villa Farnesina, Rome
3. The Frick Museum, New York
4. The Peggy Guggenheim Museum, Venice
5. The Metropolitan Art Museum, New York
6. The Barnes Collection (in its original building)
7. The Victoria & Albert Museum, London
8. Musee d’Orsay, Paris
9. Topkapi Palace, Istanbul
10. Museum of Modern Art, New York
11. The Getty Museum, Los Angeles
12. And since I’m already over my limit: The American Visionary Art Museum, in Baltimore, MD
*Okay, it’s 12. And it’s certainly not in order because I love them all for different reasons. The list is inevitably shaped by facts like—I have only been to Barcelona in Spain (loved the rooftop sculptures at the Miro Foundation) and so have not seen the Museo Nacionale del Prado, and the last time I went to the Louvre was far too long ago. Same for San Francisco, which might qualify with its modern art museum. Also, this is missing many great Washington, D.C. museums like the Renwick Gallery, the National Gallery, the Phillips Collection, and so on, but I had to be ruthless. Please write in with your Top Ten (or Twelve).
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I'm going to try and find some fairly easy online polling software to use to maybe generate votes for top small museums of the year, top museum rooftop sculptures (and, hey, cafes, since sipping wine on the rooftop of the MET overlooking Central Park is a pretty cool thing), most evocative museums.
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