Whats yer fave museum?

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Yesterday I went to the V&A and the Natural History. The Bollywood film poster exhibition was good, I hope the photo of me and Shahrukh Khan comes out well (me standing next to a picture of Shahrukh!). Wasn't that impressed by the shops in either museum.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 6 October 2002 09:12 (twenty-three years ago)

The Geffrye - because there aren't many people there and the floors creak nicely as you walk on them (I could be imagining this). Also the staff are very friendly and the restaurant and shop are nice.

― David (David), Sunday, 6 October 2002 09:22 (twenty-three years ago)

The British Museum, which has the inestimable advantage of being positioned about five minutes' walk from where I work. The Oriental galleries at the back are my favourites.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 6 October 2002 10:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Have spent entire days in the Ancient Egypt bit of the BM.

― Venga, Sunday, 6 October 2002 10:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I enjoyed the Louvre quite thoroughly when I was their late last year. I also enjoyed the Museum Of Modern Art in New York a few years ago. It's hard to decide between the two for all-out "fave".

― Andrew (enneff), Sunday, 6 October 2002 10:38 (twenty-three years ago)

The Science Museum which is near V&A and Natural History. I like the weird medical exibitions with ancient iron lungs and spooky newsreels suddenly blaring out behind you without warning. Also the Launch Pad, though that's not quite as good since they moved it down to the basement. Then there's the Secret History Of The Home, with a genuine Pong game you can play and a 1970's upright record player that you slot an LP into and it plays both sides of it without you having to change it over! Also the amazing Wellcome wing with its sci fi blue neon stylings - the first time I went in there I thought "I am in THE FUTURE!" And the Space Exploration area, which hasn't been updated since 1991, mainly due to the fact that the general public have got bored with space travel, which is quite a depressing thought really.

My other favourite museum is the Museum Of The Moving Image on South Bank, but that's currently closed until 2006 or something while they build a new building for it. It was great through, they had the original Zippy puppet from Rainbow! And loads of great stuff about the really early days of cinema, like these wonderful George Melies (sp?) films and this weird "ghost show" that scared the shit out of French people in the 19th century.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Sunday, 6 October 2002 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I haven't been in the Science Museum for years! First time I went, I was with a pal - we were about 19, and three kids maybe our age our a year younger tried to pick a fight! They backed down in the end, but it was a weird place to come across that kind of thing.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 6 October 2002 14:55 (twenty-three years ago)

wz it abt neo-cladism?

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 6 October 2002 15:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't remember. I'm guessing not.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 6 October 2002 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

actually that wd be the natural history museum anyway (and the "neo" wz me dicking abt)

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 6 October 2002 15:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyway, I prefer proto-cladism or post-cladism.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 6 October 2002 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

my dad once told me the NHM wz riven with discord abt this important topic, fistfights in the august corridors, dinosaur exhibits torn apart to provide handy clubs

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 6 October 2002 15:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Sounds like a Gary Larson cartoon. Was your dad bald with glasses and a huge nose?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 6 October 2002 15:47 (twenty-three years ago)

he only read about, he didn't take part

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 6 October 2002 16:03 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.mtn.org/quack/gifs/bldg2.jpg

― jones (actual), Sunday, 6 October 2002 16:08 (twenty-three years ago)

The Museum of Jurassic Technology. Mark S would worship at it daily.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 6 October 2002 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

The Toronto Police Museum

― rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 6 October 2002 16:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I love the Royal Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, mainly because it was across the road from my university department as an undergraduate. It has a marvellous central hall with carp (I think) in two ponds and some practically deserted upper reaches with specimens in their original Victorian cabinets. Down in the basement is a wonderful exercise in OTT 1970's design and they've recently built a modern extension that has some fantastic labyrinthine vertical spaces.

― Gordon (Gordon), Sunday, 6 October 2002 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I remember liking the Boston Science Museum a lot. Things I remember: two-story billiard ball contraption and a staircase which plays musical notes a la Big!

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Sunday, 6 October 2002 17:30 (twenty-three years ago)

the Tate Modern. predictable as hell, but i loved it when i was there, especially standing by the 'glass of water' sculpture and hearing people yell at each other about its validity. runner up is the Art Gallery of Ontario, mostly for their Greg Curnoe exhibition. v. v. colourful and fun, in an anarcho-noise kind of way.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Sunday, 6 October 2002 18:17 (twenty-three years ago)

predictable as hell = my choice, not the Tate itself.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Sunday, 6 October 2002 18:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, if we're including art galleries (I don't know where to draw the line) I'd go for Tate Modern too. There's a new turbine hall exhibit by Anish Kapoor to be revealed on Wednesday, and apparently it makes use of the whole space, which sounds interesting. And I haven't been to the Barnett Newman show yet. I think I'll try to get there next weekend sometime.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 6 October 2002 18:25 (twenty-three years ago)

has anyone visited the tube museum depot near acton town? I can't remember if I've been there or not.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 6 October 2002 19:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been to Canton but I haven't been to Cooperstown so Canton gets first place. Second goes to the nearest Ripley's Believe It or Not museum. Third goes to the Uffizi.

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 6 October 2002 19:03 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/depot.html

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 6 October 2002 19:06 (twenty-three years ago)

My first stop when I visit Philadelphia is The Mutter Museum

http://www.collphyphil.org/muttpg1.shtml

― brg30 (brg30), Sunday, 6 October 2002 19:20 (twenty-three years ago)

My answer is in this thread.

Let's talk Architecture

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 7 October 2002 02:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, Ned beat me to it with the Museum of Jurassic Technology, figures. I like Huntington Gardens and Library in Pasadena, too. It's a nice place to go on a date. The National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington DC is the goriest museum I've ever been to--the STD section is particularly revolting.

― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 7 October 2002 03:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I've rarely been to a museum more than once and have not been to many full of art that I would love, but the Holocaust Museum has beaten everything else I've ever been to as far as sheer force of experience. A lot more than just walking around being interested and hoping for some paintings to hit me.

― Josh (Josh), Monday, 7 October 2002 03:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I loved kelvingrove when I was little, and then getting to know it again when I was at university in glasgow. it was a mixture of old fashioned stuffed animals, trendy new interactive displays, and the art gallery upstairs. Many a cold winters sat/sun was spent in there.

I really enjoyed the trench exhibition at the imperial war museum, the one that was for the BBC programme.

It would be nice if I could say my (i.e. work's) museum, but the collection's in storage, and has been since jan 1999. shocking!

― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 7 October 2002 08:52 (twenty-three years ago)

The Museum of Natural History in New York is the best museum on the subject I've ever seen.

Going to the Royal College of Physicians in London != a good idea

― Miss Laura, Monday, 7 October 2002 10:07 (twenty-three years ago)

the one that i love is the tiny Moss St Gallery in Victoria, it is lovely and small, with a large zen garden in the back. Half od it is a quiet, serene, modernist cube and the other half is a sedate and formal Edwardian House. They have a large collection of Chinese Porcelien.

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 7 October 2002 12:41 (twenty-three years ago)

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