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My favorite museum experiences have been the Orsay and the Orangerie in Paris, the Bargello in Florence, and special exhibitions at the de Young in San Francisco.
My favorite art museum I visited many times, and my preference is more to do with sentiment than comparison. It's the Cincinnati Art Museum. I used to go there with my Great Aunt who has now passed...she was the most amazing and inspirational person I've ever known. We had a special fondness for a painting called "Florentine Flower Girl" by Frank Duveneck. I know she contributed a lot of money to that museum over the years... I just have really fond memories of the place.
I'm hoping to visit there in the next couple of months.
I visited in December when there was a special exhibit of some paintings on loan from a museum in Amsterdam. I had always wanted to see Vermeer's Girl with the Pearl Earrings and I figured it was cheaper for me to travel to NY than The Netherlands
I enjoyed the temporary and permanent collections. I got there before 10:00 am so admission was free. Not sure if that's an everyday occurrence but it is always nice to have a price break in NY. What struck me was the variety of paintings. Frick appears to have had a fondness for the Dutch masters and for Gainsborough, so these painters are very well represented. But I also saw paintings by El Greco, Holbein, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (might have been a Jan Bruegel picture there as well), Velazquez, Jacques-Louis David, Degas, and a couple of Turners if I remember correctly. For a relatively small property, I was impressed by the quantity and variety that an independent, private collector could amass.
There was quite a bit of Chinese pottery, and a very large collection of clocks, I think. Forgive me if I have these details wrong, as my primary reason for going was to view the paintings.
It was a cold, snowy day, so visiting the Frick was a comfortable way to pass a few hours.
I agree with many of you - so many excellent museums to choose from! A few that come to mind are:
The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York - Always surprising
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam - Amazing collection of Dutch Masters
The Forbes Gallery in New York - a quirky collection of Fabrege Eggs and toy soldiers
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam - Amazing collection of Dutch Masters
I am going to see the Reichsmuseum this month! Have been looking forward to it for a long time, I am so excited. The Dutch masters are my favorites, and while you find examples in many European museums, it must be wonderful to see Rembrandt's Night watch and Jewish Bride and Vermeer's Little Street in person.
My favorite Museum experience was the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, rooms and rooms of beautiful florentine Renaissance painting, breathtaking works by Titian, Raphael and many lesser-known artists. I was there in February, right in the morning when it opened. The rooms were all empty, the staff running through with the vacuum cleaner and chatting with coffe at the open windows. The paintings are hung from floor to ceiling like in the original Palazzo setting, so it felt almost like a residence not a museum.
I also used to love the sculpture garden in the Louvre, with the orange trees between all those elegant white marble sculptures.
In the U.S. I thought a little gem was the Delaware Museum of Art, which has the largest pre-raphaelite collection outside Britain, I loved it!
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