How many of the 10 greatest art museums in the world have you visited?
Musee du Louvre, Paris, France
Vatican Museums, Vatican City, Rome, Italy. ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York. ...
J. Paul Getty Center, Los Angeles, California
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Tate Modern, London, England.
Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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I don't see the Washington State Museum in Olympia on the list
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Been to the Vatican. Don’t give a shit about the rest.
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I've been to the Lourve and Getty
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Louvre, Orsay, Prado and National Gallery of Art, obvs
Yella with another shot at the Dutch by leaving the Van Gogh and Rijksmuseum off, but I am not sure which others I would remove, seeing as how I haven't been to them
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Chicago and DC.
Don't know much about art, don't care. Car museums are far more interesting.
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I've also been to the British Museum before they gave most of the stuff back from whence it came
They had a great Egyptian wing
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Louvre, Orsay, Uffizi…
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@PurpleBaze was sexting me sculpted marble dick picks recently, so thought an art pole was merited.
For me…
Lourvre
Uffizi
D'Orsay
Met in NYC
Getty (weird choice because it's more about the building vs the art)
And National Gallery in London. I don't give AF what @ukdawg says. London is awesome and I could spend a few weeks there a year goofing off.
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State history museum Tacoma is glorious.
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I'd put the Rijksmuseum, Hermitage, and Kunsthistorischesmuseum on the list before anything in Chicago or the fucking Getty
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A mere oversight I'm sure
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Louvre
Musee d'Orsay
J.Paul Getty Center
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I'm not a museum type of guym, but since I was in Firenze, I had to check out David's dick (no homo).
I like to call it Firenze; IWILTD.
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There are multiple David dicks in Florence.
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I’ve seen ‘em both.
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One can imagine a young @DerekJohnson sipping Coca Cola in a small jazz club on a dirty rainy night on the Left Bank.
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Yeah, I pulled this off a top 10 list from a Reuters piece and it looked mostly right so I went with it.
But, yes, those you mention are more deserving than a couple here- e.g., Getty.
St. Peterburg/Moscow would be my top bucket list trip, but I reckon it will never happen in my lifetime. Those Ruskies have had too many centuries of national trauma to be a relatively normal state.
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I assume the second one here translates in English to "Kunt Historic Museum," right?
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National Gallery in London is great, but the Portrait Gallery is the overlooked gem - don't sleep on the Portrait Gallery.
London is fine. I don't hate London. But given the choice of Metallica in Cardiff/Glasgow vs. London it was a no brainer - London is a PITA. BTW me and another family are on the Lux Aeterna platform. Boom.
In terms of museums - are we excluding antiquities? Like is your "art" defined as 1200AD - Present?
2000 years ago, some hero turned a piece of marble into a work of art. Go to the Naples Museum (Naples is Grade A shithole, but Naples Museum is Grade A must see - all the good shit from Pompeii, Herculaneum, and the Baths of Caracalla is in there).
This shit is Hustler, not Playboy, if you get my drift. Lost art…
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Quite literally mon vieux
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I went to all the fancy museums and places in St Petersburg, Russia in 2017.
Can you even get into that country now?
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getting in is easy, it’s getting out that you gotta worry about
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Don’t care about art ? I’m shocked. Positively shocked.
That said, a 1967 Z28 is a work of art. -
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I'm a luddite when it comes to the arts. No shame in admitting it versus trying to pretend. Stick me in an art museum and I will look around and call it a day after an hour. I do enjoy history and science museums, though.
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Dude did you not see the Satyr banging the goat I posted? You like art, trust me.
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great list and good comments, thanks for posting the good comments ~ I’m going to London and will visit the Museums.. have been to the paris museums, both getties in LA, the Met in NY, the Smithsonian, modern art in SF, and the Irish national gallery in Dublin
We are into Art and I particularly like ancient art… statues, artifacts… here is a pic of our Roman Mosaic….
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Yeah, it was gross.
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British Museum is a must. It's the best in London and among the best in the world. It is mostly antiquities from Egypt, Classical World (Greece and Rome) Mesopotamia, Roman and Saxon England.
When you walk into the rotunda, hang a left towards the Rossetta Stone. That wing is insane.
Pro-Tip - you are close to the West End (plays) and "China Town" - walkable and that's where the good food is. There is also a Japanese Pancake (like savory) place about a block away from the British Museum that is epic.
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Does the British Museum have the coldest beer in town?
