Do you visit museums and art galleries? Do you have a favourite?

[NorthernDave]

Not a museum or a traditional art gallery, but the Yorkshire Sculpture Park at Bretton is a fine day out with some stunning works in a beautiful setting.

 

[slowmotion]

Pace FM, but I really didn't like the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The sheer density and number of his works was overpowering. The Stedelijk Museum next door was wonderful. The Kroller-Muller Museum is well worth a visit too. Get the train to Ede-Wageningen and then grab a hire bike to pedal over the heaths to get there.
http://www.stedelijk.nl/en/exhibitions/exchanges/the-beanery-1965
http://www.stedelijk.nl/en
http://krollermuller.nl/visit?gclid=COPj6cCq_coCFQso0wodphoHAA

EDIT: Sorry! DP got to the K-M a few posts ago. I really must pay attention.

 

[growingvegetables]

Not a museum or a traditional art gallery, but the Yorkshire Sculpture Park at Bretton is a fine day out with some stunning works in a beautiful setting.

And the Hepworth - http://www.hepworthwakefield.org/

 

[AndyRM]

The Getty is probably my favourite, though there are a few to choose from. It's probably the place I decided to get serious about making a living in a creative field.

Unparalleled views of LA, incredible architecture housing great collections, exhibitions and workshops.

 

[Accy cyclist]

The National Football Museum was in Preston, at PNE's ground up till about 6 years ago. It was only an hour's bike ride away for me so i used to go quite a lot. To stand a couple of feet away from the 1966 world cup final ball, Maradona's "Hand of god" shirt, a shirt from England's first game against Scotland from 1872, Stanley Matthews boots from the 1953 cup final was amazing to someone like me who lives in the past! They only went and moved the museum to Manchester, so no more visits for me.
The highlight was when i donated some Accrington Stanley match tickets from our last game at Peel Park before the original Stanley went out of existence,which were on display for around a year. I made sure i got them back before they moved all the stuff to Manchester mind!

 

[PeteXXX]

When I worked at the VD clinic in Greenwich many years ago, I used to do split shifts that gave me several hours down time in the middle of the day.
I spent those hours wandering around the Maritime Museum soaking up all the seafaring history of times gone by.
Great place to while away the time!

 

[FrankCrank]

.....pretty much every museum and art gallery I've visited has been an enjoyable experience, the one exception being the Tate in London. It was full of pretentious crap in my opinion, but then again maybe I'm just a philistine. Walked into one room and saw a load of ducting in a pile on the floor. I honestly thought there was some renovation work going on, but no, that was the exhibit.......

 

[perplexed]

.....pretty much every museum and art gallery I've visited has been an enjoyable experience, the one exception being the Tate in London. It was full of pretentious crap in my opinion, but then again maybe I'm just a philistine. Walked into one room and saw a load of ducting in a pile on the floor. I honestly thought there was some renovation work going on, but no, that was the exhibit.......

I'd agree with that - I love a wide variety of art, ancient to very modern in all sorts of styles. Ancient Greek to Hepworth and Fink, via medieval masterpieces.

But the Tate Modern - I'm sure there are hidden cameras for the staff to laugh at some visitors who tent their fingers or nod sagely as they are 'challenged by the artist to channel their innermost Freudian fears to counterpoint the modernity of their socio economic bias in interpersonal relationships in a mid 21st century fiscally challenged climate portrayed through geopolitical realpolitik conservatism...' - whilst viewing a child's potty containing a fake turd and a toy train or something...

Or some such BS.

 

[Globalti]

Manchester City Art gallery has some of the finest Victorian art in the world, including some well-known Pre-Raphaelite paintings. There's one in there that I can't view without welling up as the boy reminds me so much of my own child: http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/prince-arthur-and-hubert-206462

Otherwise the very excellent Helmshore Textile Museums give you a great appreciation of the history of textile manufacture in Lancashire and Yorkshire.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville is excellent. The George Jones museum in Nashville and the Hank Williams museum in Montgomery, Alabama are good too.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville is excellent. The George Jones museum in Nashville and the Hank Williams museum in Montgomery, Alabama are good too.

I'd like to go to those, & the Sun Records studio

And the Hepworth - http://www.hepworthwakefield.org/

AKA 'the Bunker'
An incongruous setting, & a damned awful building, but it does give a wonderful perspective to the 14th Century Chantry Chapel

 

[Tail End Charlie]

The Royal Armouries, Leeds. Guns and swords, a proper museum. And the re-enactments of gladiators or 15th century swordfights are great. First time I took my lad, within minutes two men in armour clanked through the place and then proceeded to attack each other. They then stopped and described the moves they were doing and then tried to hack each other to bits. My lad was spell bound.

The Anson Stationary Engine museum in Poynton is great as well. Seeing the engines still working is fab. They've been donated a WW1 tank engine from Bovington and have got it running. Can't wait to see it.

 

[Globalti]

While on a walking holiday on Vancouver Island I visited the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria which is excellent on Native American history. It absolutely inspired me; I learned so much about the history of America before the white man and have never forgotten the amazing tableaux they had created, really stunning and atmospheric.

 

[ianrauk]

The Mutter Museum in Philadelphia City Central is also a great museum. Another museum full to the brim of the weird, wonderful and macabre.

 

[Aperitif]

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville is excellent. The George Jones museum in Nashville and the Hank Williams museum in Montgomery, Alabama are good too.

"...your cheatin' 'art is gonna tell on you..."
V&A - I know nothing and just look.
NPG - always good for a quick look 'n go. The BP Award is inspiring too. (Go early in the morning!)
Tate Britain - Turner's pictures, to a tiny, impressionable boy, and the fact that he used to get strapped to a ship's mast...the reality of the experience he put into pictures...and today, Canaletto's view of Horseguards/ St James etc...
There used to be a nice museum at the top of La Grande Arche at La defense, Paris but I think it is shut now? Once an eclectic mix of stuff and then a 'Computer Museum'
Nice place in Bermondsey St, just down the road from the White Cube Gallery...'emerging' artists and another eclectic mix. The Olympus Image Space.
Tate Modern. - The bar on the 6th floor offers Exhibit A - London Alive, although they seem to have removed Kernel from the 'Contemporary Works of the 21st Century' exhibition at the bar.
In short, the only real dud in recent years has been the 'World Goes Pop' exhibition at Tate Modern. The massive extention rearing up should add another tranche of confusion to my ill-trained, yet appreciative eye.