My fellow museum lovers… ✈️🤓

My favorite museum right now is the Nasjonalmuseet in Oslo, Norway 🇳🇴 it just opened in 2022 and is so very cool plus you get to see The Scream! 😱

I would love to visit the new GEM (Grand Egyptian Museum) later this year in Cairo, Egypt. 🇪🇬 The photos look amazing! 🥲

Where are my fellow museum lovers? ✈️🤓

All-time favorite museum visited?? Details and pictures please! Bonus round: dream museum destination?? 🖼️🥹

I posted this in one of my travel groups on Facebook and there are over 550 answers! Here are some of my favorites:

names are randomized

Sofia: Not sure if it was mentioned yet but the Isabella Gardner museum in Boston is absolutely gorgeous! It is also famous for being the place where one of the most famous unresolved art heist in history happened.

In the same category of museums that used to be private residences I love the Frick Collection in NYC and the museum Jacquemart André in Paris.

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Scarlett: Ah kay! I basically travel only to see art. I've been so fortunate to set foot in so many amazing ones. My fave up until recent was the Louvre just due to the sheer size and of course the fame of it plus it has my fave piece, Gericault's Raft of the Medusa. But I went to the Mauritshuis in the Hague a month ago and it honestly, takes first place. It's small buts it's so well done. The Girl with a Pearl Earring was stunning.

In the future I'd like to see the Scream too. I'd also like to see MoMA in New York.

Non art gallery but art related: Church of St. Louis of the French in Rome because it has Caravaggio's in their original location. So beautiful, I cried.

Non art and not related at all: the Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta. The best dinosaur museum hands down in the world.

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Violet: Echoing the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam. I unexpectedly cried upon seeing one of my favorite paintings there. It is a stunningly crafted museum with many artifacts besides his beautiful paintings.

I'll shout out my hometown- Art Institute of Chicago is fantastic. Curated gorgeously, stunning architecture of modern and classical styles. Pop culture references also make it fun to visit. Great museum over all.

& of course the Louvre in Paris allowed me to see many pieces of art I studied and have long admired, as well. It is massive, so be prepared to spend much time there.

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Stella: I love these questions! And everyone’s fantastic recommendations! The Musee d’Orsay is a must see, and my husband and I were amazed by the collections at the V&A in London last fall. My husband loves Matisse so one day I hope we make it to the Matisse Chapel in Vence.

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Penelope: Current Top 5:

1. Musee D’Orsay- Paris. If you like impressionism at all it’s a pilgrimage

2. The Art Institute - Chicago: literally the entire art world, only you can do it in a day instead of the 3 or 4 you need for the Met or the Louvre

3. The Peggy Guggenheim- Venice: her collection is incredibly personal. Plus I love modernism

4. The Dali Museum - St. Petersburg, Fl: I could stare at his work for hours and still not see everything going on in it

5. Te Papa Museum - Wellington, NZ: what a cool collection of a little of everything, modern art, natural history, anthropology, and the history and techniques of the pacific island voyagers are just really neat and they tell it very very well.

6. Dream museum: Casa Azul in Mexico City; The V&A in London (for the historical costume collection)

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Willow: I’ve gone to some incredible ones this summer:

Titanic Belfast: If you’re the slightest Titanic enthusiast — this museum is phenomenal!!! It’s where they actually built the ship, so there is a fascinating focus on the construction. You can stand in the area they actually built her 🤩

VASA in Stockholm: Never knew I loved ships so much haha, but this blew my mind! They resurrected a 17th century ship that sank in the Stockholm bay on her maiden voyage — incredible.

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam: Just visited yesterday… spent 5 hours looking at some of his best works! Does not disappoint. I’ve seen a lot of Van Gogh work throughout the world … but there is just something special when you can see so many at once.

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Lucy: The Dalí Museum in Figueres, Spain, is my favorite to date (he happens to be one of my favorite artists though). The building itself is a work of art. Second would be the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

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Brigette: First, as someone who works at Nasjonalmuseet, thank you OP 🥹 (Bonus info: There are several different versions of The Scream, the Munch Museum in Oslo has three different ones that they swap out regularly, but the one we have is the oldest painted version, from 1893.)

Think my favorite fun museum would be the science museum in Barcelona, CosmoCaixa, which has a miniature rain forest inside, while my favorite museum would be the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Not because it was a fun experience, but because it was such an important one. It touches your soul, that museum.

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Joan: All-time favorite is the Galleria Borghese. The Bernini sculptures there are phenomenal! Also love the Uffizi and the Alte Pinakothek.

Most surprising museum is super random, but the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio has a great collection!

Dream museum is the Van Gogh Museum or the Museo Nacional del Prado.

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Sarah: My favorite so far has been the Prado in Madrid, Spain. I did a guided tour that was really informative and just the right pace to allow you to actually look at and appreciate each piece before moving on to the next.

I also love my hometown art museum, North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC. It has a good permanent collection, plus seasonal exhibits and over a mile of trails connecting outdoor installations.

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Marie: Vasa museum in Stockholm - the most amazing preserved boat and a view on what life was like at the time it sailed

Hohenschönhausen in Berlin - really poignant and personal view on Nazi and East German history

Museum of east German life Berlin - really interesting and creative museum

National Museum of Scotland Edinburgh - you could spend days there and not see everything

Nautica aquarium in La Rochelle (not a museum but so cool)

Chatsworth house, Derbyshire England

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Jennifer: My favorite art museum is Paris’s Musee de l’Orangerie. Gorgeous huge Monet paintings and a wonderful gallery downstairs as well.

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Charity: I’ve been all over the world and in fabulous museums, but my #1 is the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. I think it’ll still be my top pick even when the new Grand Egyptian Museum opens in a few months.

Hannah: They're moving everything to the new museum and the locals said the building will either be used as government offices or a luxury hotel. I'm hoping for hotel... would be a dream to stay there!