My grandmother (who acted as my mother for most of my childhood) instilled in me a huge respect and love for museums, starting with art. She was a volunteer docent with the New Orleans Museum of Art for 40 years. They have an amazing collection - check it out if you get the chance, it's often overlooked by tourists.
I have an issue with crowds in museums. I don't like to be rushed. So things like the Uffizi in Firenze (Florence) or the Louvre in Paris are tough for me. Smaller museums, like the Picasso museum in Antibes, or some of the Roman antiquities museums in Italy, usually are a lot better. Though, I'd rather plan an entire day around a museum that has multiple collections vs. try to figure out what to do with the balance of the day once I've seen all there is to see in a 3-room collection.
I also like the "day in the life" stuff that was mentioned previously, but it is exceedingly rare to find those outside of archaeological expositions. (I enjoy the analogous thing in natural history museums for biological specimens.)
One of the best museums I've ever been to was in the Lawrence History Center in Lawrence, MA, USA. It did an excellent job of presenting the struggle of the labor movement around the turn of the 20th century, including the Bread and Roses strike. Apparently, they now have an online version of this exhibition too! It really opened my eyes.
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Date: 2019-01-26 09:57 pm (UTC)I have an issue with crowds in museums. I don't like to be rushed. So things like the Uffizi in Firenze (Florence) or the Louvre in Paris are tough for me. Smaller museums, like the Picasso museum in Antibes, or some of the Roman antiquities museums in Italy, usually are a lot better. Though, I'd rather plan an entire day around a museum that has multiple collections vs. try to figure out what to do with the balance of the day once I've seen all there is to see in a 3-room collection.
I also like the "day in the life" stuff that was mentioned previously, but it is exceedingly rare to find those outside of archaeological expositions. (I enjoy the analogous thing in natural history museums for biological specimens.)
One of the best museums I've ever been to was in the Lawrence History Center in Lawrence, MA, USA. It did an excellent job of presenting the struggle of the labor movement around the turn of the 20th century, including the Bread and Roses strike. Apparently, they now have an online version of this exhibition too! It really opened my eyes.