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I would dearly love to see the Chicago "Bean" and the art museum there and nothing else in Chicago would get me to visit.
I like THIN crust pizza, no discussion..
Chicago residents like thin crust pizza also, the other stuff is for tourists. There's a whole genre of midwestern "tavern" pizza which we keep a secret from outsiders (traditionally cracker-thin crust, square-cut, loaded with fennel-heavy sausage and rich tomato sauce)
And if you visit, save some time for the other museums -- personally, the Art Institute (reopening next week!) not only isn't my favorite Chicago museum, it's not even my favorite Chicago art museum.
Chicago residents like thin crust pizza also, the other stuff is for tourists. There's a whole genre of midwestern "tavern" pizza which we keep a secret from outsiders (traditionally cracker-thin crust, square-cut, loaded with fennel-heavy sausage and rich tomato sauce)
And if you visit, save some time for the other museums -- personally, the Art Institute (reopening next week!) not only isn't my favorite Chicago museum, it's not even my favorite Chicago art museum.
Thanks for the information. Please name your favorite art museum, I def. thought the the Art Institute was the top internationally. And so great to know Chicago has thin crust! I make ours at home because so disappointed in every pizza gotten in Florida and now Charlotte NC no matter what they say. People do not have trustworthy taste in reviews.
Thanks for the information. Please name your favorite art museum, I def. thought the the Art Institute was the top internationally. And so great to know Chicago has thin crust! I make ours at home because so disappointed in every pizza gotten in Florida and now Charlotte NC no matter what they say. People do not have trustworthy taste in reviews.
If you make it to Apopka, FL give Rosati's pizza a try, the Chicago locations do a fine thin crust.
I prefer the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, though I haven't been downtown in over a year; employer basically forbid us to go to the office at all once the rioting and looting took off.
It depends, I like a mix. I tend to visit museums on the days when weather is poor in whatever area I am visiting. On occasion there is something in the museum I particularly want to see. I like a mix of museums with historical sites / exhibits, architectural significant structures and walking tours that show a combination (if available). Museums in small regions can be fun for silly memories depending on what the area of interest is / was known for.
One plus of nicer museums strategically on an itinerary is - depending on how you are traveling and how long you may be from your 'base' lodgings - they tend to have cleaner public restrooms based upon the demographics of who visits. A few times on trips in Europe, with full days of exploration planned, the 'museum' was a welcome pit stop as well.
I love museums - all types. Art, history, decorative arts, sculpture, science, automotive, personal. I don't spend the whole day in a museum, but I love to spend several hours being surrounded by the beauty and information they convey.
I find it interesting that so many people say they don't like museums and seem proud of it. Yet, one I tell people I am indifferent to football or the Super Bowl, they are incredulous. They go on to impress upon me how I must not really understand the Super Bowl, how great it is, how wonderful football is, I should give it another go, spend more time on it.
If someone tells me they don't like museums, I consider it their loss but I don't berate them for it. Personal choices for personal enjoyment.
Ha, my twin sister. I too have no interest in football. I've now watched the Superbowl for the past two years, and they were the first times I watched any football since I kicked my gambler husband out twenty years ago. The only reason I watched it when I was married because I needed to know how much money he was losing. I had the spreads, the over/under, all his bets in my head and I'd look at the scores. For a long time after, just the sound of a football game gave me PTSD symptoms.
But last night I watched with my S.O., who is not that into football but watches the playoffs and the Superbowl. I saw the pregame and the commercials, but after a while, I said, "This is the part of the Superbowl I don't like." He said, "The part where they are actually playing football?" Yup! The whole thing just seems kind of pointless.
Give me a museum over that any day. Not a football museum, though.
Not very. While I enjoy art, I don't necessarily want to spend a good portion of my day, in a new place, inside looking at paintings. A couple examples from my travels:
-- While in Florence, walking through the Uffizi was arduous for me, but looking at Michaelangelo's David in the Academia was breathtaking.
-- While in Rome, the Vatican Museum, as opulent and stunning as it is, was just a walk-through for me to get to the final prize, the Sistine Chapel.
-- While in London, my husband and I skipped the palaces and Tower of London. We walked around the grounds of Tower of London, but had no real desire to go inside. What we did do while in London that was amazing was go to the Churchill War Rooms.
An exception I will make if I ever get to the Netherlands is the Kroller-Muller Museum to see my favorite Van Gogh in person - Cafe Terrace at Night.
Honestly, I've done more museum visiting here at home, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. I've gone for various exhibits (Dali was pretty cool) and they have an amazing Japanese Tea Room on the top floor with lighting that imagines you are outside. So it's completely immersive and you can walk through it.
Thanks for the information. Please name your favorite art museum, I def. thought the the Art Institute was the top internationally. And so great to know Chicago has thin crust! I make ours at home because so disappointed in every pizza gotten in Florida and now Charlotte NC no matter what they say. People do not have trustworthy taste in reviews.
I've been to the Art Institute, and I loved it -- can't recommend it highly enough. For me, it's a world class example of its type -- the Seurat "Grand Jatte" painting alone is worth the price of admission. Of course, it's not the only museum game in town, art or otherwise. The Museum of Contemporary Art is excellent, and I also enjoyed the art museums at the University of Chicago (the Smart and Oriental Institute Museums) and Intuit (which is an outsider art museum). Chicago also has a wonderful natural history museum (The Field), a world class science museum (MoSI), an excellent city history museum (Chicago History Museum), and splendid architecture.
Re pizza, neither Florida nor Charlotte are hotbeds of this food. I'd be leery of suggestions there, myself. I happened to enjoy the thick crust pizza I had in Chicago, as well as the best thin crust examples in places like New York, New Haven, and Boston.
Give me a museum over that any day. Not a football museum, though.
You should be okay as long as you avoid Canton, Ohio, which is where the Pro Football Hall of Fame is located. That's the only American football museum I'm aware of.
I much prefer going to small museums as they don't feel as overwhelming as the larger ones. When we visit a large museum, it's usually to see a specific exhibit.
As for battlefields, we've been to several. Some of them have rangers who give talks. When our daughter was a pre-teen, she liked the ranger talk session we attended at Little Big Horn as it had many interesting facts.
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Chicago's City Gallery is a better venue for a nice spring day, barring riots and looters
