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.

  • matte@feddit.nu
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    23 days ago

    My favourite is the Munch museum in Oslo. It is a fairly new (at least in a new building), very modern museum with Munch’s fantastic art. The most famous version of The Scream is however at the National Museum but that is just a short walk away. The National Museum also has other great collections of course. Fantastic medieval art.

    For most of my life I was not at all interested in art museums but now I love visiting them.

    • Bags@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      23 days ago

      I want to work up the courage to start traveling overseas more… Unfortunately the current world opinion of the USA kinda has me hesitant. I went to Amsterdam this past March, my first time leaving the country, and really REALLY wanted to go to the Rijksmuseum, but my (now ex) girlfriend didn’t think we would have enough time, so we didn’t end up going… I guess I’ll just have to go back on my own.

      Norway is another bucket list destination for me, I’ll add the Munch to my list!

      It’s sort of the same for me, only the last ~5 years or so have I really gotten into museums and that kind of experience. Now, I can’t get enough, and can spend all day in even the most tiny niche museum.