what are the best museums you've visited?
State Hermitage Museum -- Saint Petersburg, RussiaThe State Tretakov Gallery -- Moscow, RussiaHamburger Kunsthalle -- Hamburg, GermanyVasa Museum -- Stockholm, SwedenRijksmuseum -- Amsterdam, NetherlandsMuzeum Narodowe w Warszawie -- Warsaw, PolandThe Egyptian Museum in Cairo -- Cairo, EgyptOmsk Local History Museum -- Omsk, RussiaState History Museum -- Bishkek, KyrgyzstanHimeji Castle -- Himeji, JapanLenin (First Nuclear) Icebreaker -- Murmansk, RussiaMarc Chagall Museum -- Vitebsk, BelarusThe Detroit Institute of Arts -- Detroit, MichiganNewseum -- Washington D.C. USA (I miss this one dearly)The Hermitage is the greatest museum I've ever visited, without a doubt. The preservation of the Vasa is really amazing. Getting a close look at the ship really puts history into perspective. The Cairo museum felt like it had hundreds of rarely viewed exhibits hiding in corners. Dusty and full of artifacts.I've always heard these are the top 3 WWII museums in the world, so I made a point to see them. I also visited the Yasukuni-jinja Shrine in Tokyo, but it's really only a shrine. Moscow is the most funded and has the most vehicles.Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War -- Minsk, BelarusNational Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War -- Kiev, UkraineVictory Museum -- Moscow, RussiaI haven't been to the British Museum or to the Louvre. I'm also curious which world class museums exist in Arabia and south Asia.
The National Archives Museum in Washington, D.C. was pretty great. The rotunda where the founding documents are held is beautiful. Plus the concept that this place holds the documents and anyone can walk in for free and see it for themselves is special. The other exhibits are nice too. They have one of the four original magna carta on display. Plus a better gift shop than the SI museums next door.
>>2742072Museums:-Uffizi (just by the number of masterpieces and the gallery itself)-Lascaux IV (1:1 copy of a prehistoric cave)-Musei Capitolini (best preserved roman antiques)Castles:-Versailles-Himeji-Hearst Castle
i like the orange museum in paris with monet's water lilliesthe van gogh museum in amsterdam is wonderful museum, the further up you guy the more you can see his loss of mental facultiesif you count it, pompeii is probably one of the most interesting things ive seen in my life
>>2742072For me, the V&A in London. Just an endless Aladdin's cave
The Prado - MadridBorghese Gallery - RomeBarnes Foundation exhibit - Philadelphia
>>2742102If you like Vasa then there is a full scale Indiaman replica at the maritime museum in Amsterdam (The original is shipwrecked off the coast of England you can see it at low tide) and the rest of the maritime museum is great too, I actually preferred it over the RijksmuseumAlso HMS Victory in Portsmouth, England, you'll have to check dates but it's under repair for years now (you can still go onboard) Generally the historic dockyard area in Portsmouth is really cool and you can look around for free, bonus if the carriers are in, but the tickets to go into some of the museum ships are fucking expensiveThere is a replica Spanish Galleon in existence which actually sails around places but I haven't managed to catch it yetBritish Museum is really great for a free one, just don't bother supporting their islamic londonistan agenda by eating at the overpriced stealth halal restaurants on site. Didn't enjoy Louvre but i made a rare slip up and got stuffed with a shitty timeslot peak busy time on a rainy day, great>>2742457>UffiziVatican Museum has an amazing collection tooBorghese Gallery (Rome) is also a great collection but smaller than the above 2, and they limit entries so it's never overcrowded and it's a great experience>>2743108if we are counting pompeii then greece has amazing and historically important sites too that are definitely worth it and most have good onsite museums - delphi, mycenae, epudaurus. you can even just book a tour from Athens to them since they require a couple of hours drive to, the quality of tour guides in Greece is probably the best in the world from what I have seenalso national archaeological museum in athens is an obviously unbeatable ancient greek collection>van goghi vomit
>>2742072"The Dead Zoo" in Dublin. It's actually an old, tired, shitty natural history museum, it's all old and often bad taxidermy slOWly being eaten by moths -- but for some odd reason, so many of the dead critters seem to be smiling, just so happy to be dead. Great deal of fun.
>>2742102>I'm also curious which world class museums exist in Arabia and south Asia.Not sure it is world class, but the Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Centre in Kuwait is a fun and fascinating modern museum.
the spy museum in washington dc is pretty cool, mainly focusing on the cold war as thats where most declassified spying by the us took place. also the carrier and maritime museum in san diego, which are close enough together that you should see both on the same day. the maritime museum has a couple of boats (including a 16th century galleon) that they take out into the bay for tours along with the stationary ones.
Definitely the Royal Palace in Madrid. The National Gallery of Art in DC is great and free, as is the Natural History Museum. It's worth it just to see the Hope Diamond. The Art institute in Chicago is another good one. I'm doing the Louvre this year for the first time.
>>2742102Great list. I've been to a handful of these. Seeing the DIA was interesting, one of my favorites and relatively unknown.
Mesoamerican history infodumper from /his/, /v/, etc here.I've been working on a big list of museums with notable Mesoamerican collections for a while but it's still disorganized, but here's a quick shorter list of ones in the United States:- The Penn Museum (in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, not Penn state)- Dumbarton Oaks- National Museum of the American Indian - The Saint Louis Art Museum- The Chicago Field Museum- Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology- Museum of Fine Arts Boston- The de Young at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco- The Denver Art Museum- Princeton Art Museum- University of Miami Lowe Art Museum- Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell UniversityThere's absolutely more then this but this is just a halfassed list I happen to have on hand. As an aside if anybody has good photos of Mesoamerican or other Prehispanic stuff and wants me to pay them to allow the photos on Wikimedia, email me (saintseiyasource@gmail.com), though it depends on what sort of photos you got. I am especially looking for Mexican feather mosaics, some stuff at the National Museum of the American Indian, and the Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl temple as it was being excavated in Mexico city by the Hotel Catedral
>>2742072vasa museum
The British War Museum in London has a WW2 German V2 rocket that goes to the ceiling, a Me163 rocket plane, tanks and various military displays- definitely a must see for military history.
