Favorite Museums

I’ll be heading to NYC in a couple of weeks for a business trip + a few extra vacation days and I plan to visit the the Guggenheim while there and finally see The Met’s Cloisters. It got me to thinking that I have been very fortunate to have already gone to some amazing collections and seen such amazing art and archeological artifacts. Thanks to my parents and living in Houston, I have been going to museums since I was little and always try to research and visit one museum per major trip. I have been fortunate enough to have visited huge institutions like El Prado (Madrid) and the Louvre as well as small museums focused on one artist (Miro, Picasso) or that were actually once private collections (these are typically my favorites, they are more intimate ).  I have seen every major artist – Picasso, Monet, Manet, Cezanne, Mondrian, Caravaggio, Velasquez, Klee, Seurat, Ernst, Leger, O’Keefe, Kandinsky, Gaugin, Warhol, Dali, Matisse, Magritte, Sargent, Renoir, Goya, El Greco, da Vinci, Miro, Rothko, Lichtenstein, Haring, and more (I lean towards the impressionist &  more modern names though, can’t you tell?). Anyway, I started to make a list of the museums I’ve visited – since this is from memory I am sure I am missing some…

Do you have any favorite museums? Any you love that aren’t on my list that I must go see if I get a chance?

• El Prado
• The Louvre
• High Museum of Art – Atlanta
• SFMOMA
• Various Smithsonian museums – Air & Space, Natural History
• Hirsshorn – DC
• National Portrait Gallery – DC
• National Gallery of Art – DC
• The Met – NYC
• Archeology Museum of Barcelona
• Archeological Museum of Tarragona
• Centre de Cultura Contempornia de Barcelona
• Kimbell Art Museum
• Nasher Sculpture Center
• Phillips Collection – DC
• San Antonio Museum of Art
• The Staatsgalerie – Stuttgart
• Houston CAM
• Museum of Science & Industry – Chicago
• Houston Museum of Natural Science
• Museu Picasso – Barcelona
• The Fundacio Joan Miro – Barcelona

My Favorite Museums:

• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum– Boston
• Centre Pompidou
• The Menil Collection
• Houston MFA
• Art Institute of Chicago
• Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia
• Museee d’Orsay