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.
Phipps absolutely counts! My brother used to live in Pittsburgh, so I know that place well. I haven’t been in several years since my brother moved back to our hometown… I should find an excuse to get back there.
I recently had a business trip to Rochester NY to visit a prospective integrator’s site, and then we were going to be driving down to Painted Post, NY to visit their second facility, which is directly next door to Corning, NY, home of the Corning Museum of Glass, which has always been somewhere I have wanted to go. Originally, it was just supposed to be me, which was perfect, as I could have my own time to go to the Corning museum, and also an art museum in Rochester. At the last second, my boss had his schedule open up, and he ended up coming… and he would rather sit at the hotel bar and consume literally 19 Miller Lights on a random Tuesday night… I don’t even drink, so that was a… “fun” afternoon. And I did broach the topic of at least stopping by the museum of glass, but he had a tight timeline and needed to be home asap the day we left… I’ll just need to head back out to Rochester/Corning on my own time!