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Old 06-12-2011, 10:23 AM
 
Location: Virginia Highland, GA
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The list was made by NY art examiner Brian Soloman.

NY Art Examiner: The Ten Best Art Museums in America (http://www.examiner.com/x-898-New-York-Art-Examiner%7Ey2008m9d30-The-Ten-Best-Art-Museums-in-America - broken link)
Typical biased opinion, not one in the south.
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Old 07-29-2015, 07:29 PM
 
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Odd how everyone has overlooked The MFAH, with over 2.0 million annual visitors, and soon to be the 3rd or 4th largest in the U.S. by 2021. It's taking 5 years alone for the chosen Architect to complete his renderings and 5 years to construct. Then, since the Museum is spread over 6 buildings, Houston is redesigning it into one campus by changing street layout as much as possible to make it feel as a beautiful University Campus with several Buildings, including the Sculpture Garden.

Since two additions are two separate estate-homes, about six miles distant in Houston's River Oaks, these can't be moved to the campus.

The MFAH also is one of only 2 or so museums in the U.S. that is able to handle visiting exhibitions for long periods of time while othe museums undergo remodeling such as the MOMA, the Smithsonian's National Gallery of Art, Impressionist works only except the one donated collection that cannot ever be moved and had to be stored. I believe it was the MOMA's collection spent 6 months in Houston followed by Berlin, and a previous exhibition of Impressionist are had to be relocated and went first to Berlin, the to Houston.

Just two more note dealing with museums, but of Natural Science--Houston's Museum of Natural Science is the second most visited in the U.S. second to that in NYC.msecondly, one can't forget the Menil Gallery. When Mrs. de Menil decided to donate her extremely vast collection of Modern and Pre-Columbian Art to form, a Museum, Paris, New York, Chicago, Moscow, Madrid and several cities vied for it, but in the end, Houston won out. Today, the Cy Twombley permanent has been added, an Institute of Drawing is being built now, and the main collection has more than doubled. She and her husband, John, also donated money to build and maintain the Rothko Chapel, a small space for non-denominational meditation containing 14 works of Mr Rothko and designed by Rothko, Philip Johnson, Howard Barnstone and Eugene Aubrey. Outside the Chapel at the other end of the Plaza she gave the famous Broken Obelisk by Barnett Newman in honor of Martin Luther King.

In 2001 the Chapel was listed in the National Register of Historic Places, an honor awarded before the institution was fifty years old. The Chapel regularly makes top ten lists of places to visit, and is a featured entry in National Geographic's book Sacred Places of a Lifetime: 500 of the World's Most Peaceful and Powerful Destinations, published in 2009.
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Old 07-30-2015, 03:48 PM
 
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The Smithsonian's Museum of American History is , far and away, the most interesting museum I've visited in the US.
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