How many of the 10 greatest art museums in the world have you visited?

[ukdawg]

@PurpleBaze was sexting me sculpted marble dick picks recently, so thought an art pole was merited.
For me…
Lourvre
Uffizi
D'Orsay
Met in NYC
Getty (weird choice because it's more about the building vs the art)
And National Gallery in London. I don't give AF what @ukdawg says. London is awesome and I could spend a few weeks there a year goofing off.

National Gallery in London is great, but the Portrait Gallery is the overlooked gem - don't sleep on the Portrait Gallery.
London is fine. I don't hate London. But given the choice of Metallica in Cardiff/Glasgow vs. London it was a no brainer - London is a PITA. BTW me and another family are on the Lux Aeterna platform. Boom.
In terms of museums - are we excluding antiquities? Like is your "art" defined as 1200AD - Present?
2000 years ago, some hero turned a piece of marble into a work of art. Go to the Naples Museum (Naples is Grade A shithole, but Naples Museum is Grade A must see - all the good shit from Pompeii, Herculaneum, and the Baths of Caracalla is in there).
This shit is Hustler, not Playboy, if you get my drift. Lost art…

 

[DerekJohnson]

Louvre
Musee d'Orsay
J.Paul Getty Center

One can imagine a young @DerekJohnson sipping Coca Cola in a small jazz club on a dirty rainy night on the Left Bank.

Quite literally mon vieux

 

[haie]

I went to all the fancy museums and places in St Petersburg, Russia in 2017.
Can you even get into that country now?

 

[CFetters_Nacho_Lover]

I went to all the fancy museums and places in St Petersburg, Russia in 2017.
Can you even get into that country now?

getting in is easy, it’s getting out that you gotta worry about

 

[YellowSnow]

Chicago and DC.
Don't know much about art, don't care. Car museums are far more interesting.

Don’t care about art ? I’m shocked. Positively shocked.

That said, a 1967 Z28 is a work of art.

 

[BleachedAnusDawg]

Chicago and DC.
Don't know much about art, don't care. Car museums are far more interesting.

Don’t care about art ? I’m shocked. Positively shocked.

That said, a 1967 Z28 is a work of art.

I'm a luddite when it comes to the arts. No shame in admitting it versus trying to pretend. Stick me in an art museum and I will look around and call it a day after an hour. I do enjoy history and science museums, though.

 

[ukdawg]

Chicago and DC.
Don't know much about art, don't care. Car museums are far more interesting.

Don’t care about art ? I’m shocked. Positively shocked.

That said, a 1967 Z28 is a work of art.

I'm a luddite when it comes to the arts. No shame in admitting it versus trying to pretend. Stick me in an art museum and I will look around and call it a day after an hour. I do enjoy history and science museums, though.

Dude did you not see the Satyr banging the goat I posted? You like art, trust me.

 

[KatsCanTipToe]

great list and good comments, thanks for posting the good comments ~ I’m going to London and will visit the Museums.. have been to the paris museums, both getties in LA, the Met in NY, the Smithsonian, modern art in SF, and the Irish national gallery in Dublin
We are into Art and I particularly like ancient art… statues, artifacts… here is a pic of our Roman Mosaic….

 

[BleachedAnusDawg]

Chicago and DC.
Don't know much about art, don't care. Car museums are far more interesting.

Don’t care about art ? I’m shocked. Positively shocked.

That said, a 1967 Z28 is a work of art.

I'm a luddite when it comes to the arts. No shame in admitting it versus trying to pretend. Stick me in an art museum and I will look around and call it a day after an hour. I do enjoy history and science museums, though.

Dude did you not see the Satyr banging the goat I posted? You like art, trust me.

Yeah, it was gross.

 

[ukdawg]

great list and good comments, thanks for posting the good comments ~ I’m going to London and will visit the Museums.. have been to the paris museums, both getties in LA, the Met in NY, the Smithsonian, modern art in SF, and the Irish national gallery in Dublin
We are into Art and I particularly like ancient art… statues, artifacts… here is a pic of our Roman Mosaic….

British Museum is a must. It's the best in London and among the best in the world. It is mostly antiquities from Egypt, Classical World (Greece and Rome) Mesopotamia, Roman and Saxon England.
When you walk into the rotunda, hang a left towards the Rossetta Stone. That wing is insane.
Pro-Tip - you are close to the West End (plays) and "China Town" - walkable and that's where the good food is. There is also a Japanese Pancake (like savory) place about a block away from the British Museum that is epic.

 

[DerekJohnson]

great list and good comments, thanks for posting the good comments ~ I’m going to London and will visit the Museums.. have been to the paris museums, both getties in LA, the Met in NY, the Smithsonian, modern art in SF, and the Irish national gallery in Dublin
We are into Art and I particularly like ancient art… statues, artifacts… here is a pic of our Roman Mosaic….

British Museum is a must. It's the best in London and among the best in the world. It is mostly antiquities from Egypt, Classical World (Greece and Rome) Mesopotamia, Roman and Saxon England.
When you walk into the rotunda, hang a left towards the Rossetta Stone. That wing is insane.
Pro-Tip - you are close to the West End (plays) and "China Town" - walkable and that's where the good food is. There is also a Japanese Pancake (like savory) place about a block away from the British Museum that is epic.

Does the British Museum have the coldest beer in town?

 

[YellowSnow]

great list and good comments, thanks for posting the good comments ~ I’m going to London and will visit the Museums.. have been to the paris museums, both getties in LA, the Met in NY, the Smithsonian, modern art in SF, and the Irish national gallery in Dublin
We are into Art and I particularly like ancient art… statues, artifacts… here is a pic of our Roman Mosaic….

British Museum is a must. It's the best in London and among the best in the world. It is mostly antiquities from Egypt, Classical World (Greece and Rome) Mesopotamia, Roman and Saxon England.
When you walk into the rotunda, hang a left towards the Rossetta Stone. That wing is insane.
Pro-Tip - you are close to the West End (plays) and "China Town" - walkable and that's where the good food is. There is also a Japanese Pancake (like savory) place about a block away from the British Museum that is epic.

Having the Rosetta Stone in London as opposed to Cairo makes me proud to be an (25 percent) Englishman.

 

[ukdawg]

great list and good comments, thanks for posting the good comments ~ I’m going to London and will visit the Museums.. have been to the paris museums, both getties in LA, the Met in NY, the Smithsonian, modern art in SF, and the Irish national gallery in Dublin
We are into Art and I particularly like ancient art… statues, artifacts… here is a pic of our Roman Mosaic….

British Museum is a must. It's the best in London and among the best in the world. It is mostly antiquities from Egypt, Classical World (Greece and Rome) Mesopotamia, Roman and Saxon England.
When you walk into the rotunda, hang a left towards the Rossetta Stone. That wing is insane.
Pro-Tip - you are close to the West End (plays) and "China Town" - walkable and that's where the good food is. There is also a Japanese Pancake (like savory) place about a block away from the British Museum that is epic.

Does the British Museum have the coldest beer in town?

That has changed. The cask (with the atomizers) are still in the cellar and I hope that never dies. But, kegs (on air) are becoming as common as they re in the US.
There is a Brew Dog Restaurant/Bar between British Museum and West End - just sayin'.

 

[ukdawg]

great list and good comments, thanks for posting the good comments ~ I’m going to London and will visit the Museums.. have been to the paris museums, both getties in LA, the Met in NY, the Smithsonian, modern art in SF, and the Irish national gallery in Dublin
We are into Art and I particularly like ancient art… statues, artifacts… here is a pic of our Roman Mosaic….

British Museum is a must. It's the best in London and among the best in the world. It is mostly antiquities from Egypt, Classical World (Greece and Rome) Mesopotamia, Roman and Saxon England.
When you walk into the rotunda, hang a left towards the Rossetta Stone. That wing is insane.
Pro-Tip - you are close to the West End (plays) and "China Town" - walkable and that's where the good food is. There is also a Japanese Pancake (like savory) place about a block away from the British Museum that is epic.

Having the Rosetta Stone in London as opposed to Cairo makes me proud to be an (25 percent) Englishman.

Yella you are spot on mate. I don't give a fuck what the Romans, the Greeks, or the Egyptians say either. They didn't give a good-god-damn about any of that until the Germans and the Brits decided to save and conserve a lot of it. They should be grateful, honestly. We celebrate the ancients because of western archeology. Everyone else loots it or let's it just call into disrepair. Which is not to say it didn't have issues.
That sort of amazing stuff belongs to humanity. It should not be all in Athens if it's getting blown up (which, for the Eglin marbles, was the case). Look at how ISIS fucked up all of it:
Destruction of cultural heritage by the Islamic State - Wikipedia
Look, the Romans in 200AD basically "owned" good portions of Europe and the Middle East. Does that mean that Italy can tell Croatia to give them statues from the ancient Roman cities? It belonged to Rome in 200AD? Modern Borders (which were not the borders 2000 years ago) now dictate human history. Your "turf" is a temporary piece of the Earth. It will not last.
The Greeks are the only one where it is not a white man screwing the brown man argument, which is probably why no one really cares. Fuck Off.

 

[CFetters_Nacho_Lover]

Been to the Vatican. Don’t give a shit about the rest.

So a day after posting, where do I end up but at an art exhibit.

I lived in Chicago for 18 months. The art museum was not a priority nor would any of the other places be a priority if I visited those cities.

 

[KatsCanTipToe]

thx @ukdawg, I’m saving these notes.

 

[ukdawg]

thx @ukdawg, I’m saving these notes.

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[YellowSnow]

I think at a certain point @ukdawg the great historical artifacts belong to humanity as whole as well who's best equipped to preserve and display them. It's not like the Greeks or the Egyptians were super interested in preserving ancient artifacts from civilizations 2500 to 4500 years prior. So much of it ended up in the British Museum which did preserve things well an displayed them for 6.5 million visitors last year.

 

[CFetters_Nacho_Lover]

I think at a certain point @ukdawg the great historical artifacts belong to humanity as whole as well who's best equipped to preserve and display them. It's not like the Greeks or the Egyptians were super interested in preserving ancient artifacts from civilizations 2500 to 4500 years prior. So much of it ended up in the British Museum which did preserve things well an displayed them for 6.5 million visitors last year.

And we have Indiana Jones and his father to thank for much of that.

 

[YellowSnow]

I think at a certain point @ukdawg the great historical artifacts belong to humanity as whole as well who's best equipped to preserve and display them. It's not like the Greeks or the Egyptians were super interested in preserving ancient artifacts from civilizations 2500 to 4500 years prior. So much of it ended up in the British Museum which did preserve things well an displayed them for 6.5 million visitors last year.

And we have Indiana Jones and his father to thank for much of that.

This stuff belongs in a museum!