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My city's Museum of Natural Science was the first stop for Lucy when she left Ethiopia for the first time.
The Houston MNS also built the case that now houses Lucy during her tour of the U.S.A. and where she now resides in Ethiopia.
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I shudder when I think people may actually go into the creation "museum." My brain is bleeding just thinking about it.
It just promotes blasphemy. Ironically that museum is in suburban Austin, too close to the "liberal" place.
Houston has a huge museum district dedicated to different subjects such as firefighting, funeral directing, and the Buffalo Soldiers. I heard on the radio that the John C. Freeman Weather Museum is going to have Weather Pioneer Day next Saturday.
Hey everyone. Just a little fun fact, Los Angeles is home to more museums per capita than any other city in the world. L.A. county alone has 841 museums and art galleries.
IMO, Washington has the best collection of museums in the US because of the breadth of offerings. Not only does it have world-class art museums (National Gallery East and West, Corcoran, Phillips, Portrait Gallery, Hirshorn, etc), but it also has amazing non-art museums such as Natural History, Air & Space, American History, Newseum, etc.
If we are just considering art museums New York wins with the Metropolitan Museum of Art (finest museum in America, in my opinion), Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim, Brooklyn Museum, Frick, etc.
After those two, I'm not sure which city would be third...arguments could be made for several places including Chicago, Boston, LA, Philly and San Fran. I haven't been to them, but I hear the Houston museums are nice also and I think Houston is the clear winner for the South.
Hey everyone. Just a little fun fact, Los Angeles is home to more museums per capita than any other city in the world. L.A. county alone has 841 museums and art galleries.
That is kinda hard to believe, it is much easier for a small place to win the per capita argument. LA county has 9M people
depends . what kind of museum if its a car museum the worlds largest is in Tacoma wa. If its a flight or space museum the worlds largest none profit private space and air museum is in Seattle. If its a music museum The E.M.P. is in Seattle and so is the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. The Museum Of Glass is in Tacoma Wa connected to downtown Tacoma by the Bridge Of Glass.
New York and Washington are the best. New York has many more great and interesting museums than Washington, but Washington makes up for that by having so many fine institutions that are free, making its museums as accessible as can be.
After that, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Philadelphia, and San Francisco are excellent as well.
An art gallery is not a museum, but yes L.A. has many, many art galleries.
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Hey everyone. Just a little fun fact, Los Angeles is home to more museums per capita than any other city in the world. L.A. county alone has 841 museums and art galleries.
1. Washington D.C
2. NYC
3. Boston
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In The Boston/Cambridge you have:
*(1)* The second largest Encyclopedic Art Collection in the America's, at the MFA in Boston, which is literally 2.5 times the AIC and 5 times the Getty.** Only the Met exceeds it
*(2)* The fourth largest Encyclopedic Art Collection in the Americas at the Newly
renovated Harvard Art Museums which at almost 300,000 objects is larger than AIC, Getty etc and is opening a new facility in 2 weeks.*
(3)* The Second and Third Largest Library Collections in The United States (The Boston Public Library and the Harvard University Library)*
(4) One of the largest science museum's in The United States
(5) The largest and oldest private historical Society Library/Museum Collection in the United States, The Massacusetts Historical Society only exceeded by the SMithsonian, which includes some 500 American Paintings, The Presidential Libraries of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and John Quincy Adams, as well as personal papers of abigail adams*
(6)* One of the only 12 Presidential Libraries in Existence (JFK Library)
*(7)* One of the top aquariums in the United States *
(8)* The Harvard Museum Collections which in of themselves exceed the private collections of most american cities museums*
(9) One of the best museums of Human Cultures, Archeology and Ethnography In the World (Peabody* Museum at Harvard)*
(10)* One of the largest collections of Natural History in the World, albeit in an out dated and too small building (Harvard Museum
of Natural History at 25 million objects/ specimens)*(
*(11) Another world class art collection and*of the most unique museum art collections in the Americas (Isabella Gardner Museum)
(12) The Peabody Essex Museum which is a world class collection of Asian and American Art (In Salem 10 miles north)
(12) A Museum of Contemporary Art in Downtown (ICA Boston)
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(13) *Among Oldest Private LIbrary and Museum In the Americas (Boston Atheneum)
(14) *COuntless historical site museums (Old State House Museum, Bunker Hill Monument and Museum, Boston Tea Party Museum, USS Constitiution Museum, *Old North Church, Old South Meeting House Museum, Longfellow House Museum)*
(15) *One of the Oldest State Capitols in the Americas*
(16) **The MIT Museum
(17) Kennedy Institute for The Senate opening in March 2013 which is basically a museum to the US Senate with a full size scale replica of U.S Senate Chambers
(18) Countless smaller museums of all genre's: Boston Beer Museum, James Otis House Museum, African American History Museum, Gibson House Museum, Nichols House Museum, MGH Museum of Medicine and Etherdome, Boston Fire Museum, Boston Design Museum, Harvard Semitic Museum, New England Sports Museum, Harvard Herbaria, Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments to name just a very few
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