I’m a fiend for museums. Every time I travel for work (which is thankfully alone most of the time), I find museums to go to. When I travel for leisure, I pretty much always find some museum to go to in between whatever else I’m doing, too.
I am particularly fond of contemporary art, and technology museums, closely followed by natural history museums.
My favorite museum of all time is Mass MoCa in North Adams, MA, USA. I go at least twice a year, even though it’s a ~4 hour drive. I used to be a member at $250 a year, which also gave me ROAM reciprocal admission to tons of other museums, but money is tight these days and I had to give that up. There was a time when I was doing enough work travel that the money I saved via all the free admission to ROAM museums I got on the road was actually a net savings over the $250 membership!
Has anyone else been to Mass MoCa? We may have crossed paths!
What is your favorite museum? How often do you go? Are you a member?
I’ve been thinking about museums a bunch since I started planning my Art Basel Miami trip later this year… I’m trying to figure out how to bundle the Kennedy Space Center and Art Basel into one weeklong trip with minimal expense lol.
I haven’t been in years, but I really like the LaBrea Tar Pits. Those reciprocal memberships are nice. We’ve done the arboretum and art museum ones. When our kids were young we did the zoo. It gave us a free thing to do with them when we traveled and since it was free we didn’t feel like we had to stay the entire day .
I almost went to the Tar Pits last year on a work trip to Anaheim, but ended up driving out through Joshua Tree National Park. I had never really been to “the desert” before, and ended up having an amazing, almost spiritual experience. I really want to go back. Waiting for the flights to Vegas to go even lower to try and lure people in, then just rent a car and drive off into the sunset.