..I'd be a bit of a Museum nerd. The 9/11 Memorial & Museum at Ground Zero is astonishing. Any others??
Ellis Island was brilliant,dunno if it is classed as a museum but it was a great experience.
The Egyptian museum in Cairo is pretty good also.
American Museum of Natural History
Kilmainham Gaol
GAA museum at Croke Park is the answer all true Gaels should be giving.
Museum of Scottish Football at Hampden a very close second
Lebanese national museum after the war
Deutsches Museum in Munich, for the tech stuff.
National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City.
Vatican Museum tour leading up to Sistine Chapel. Louvre museum was also very good.
Imperial War Museum in London.
Natural History in London.
Cavan county museum. Haven't visited many. Although it has the biggest WWI trench in Britain and Ireland. Plus All Ireland winning material of Cavan so that's really old.
The Salvadore Dali museum in Figueres, just outside Barcelona is pretty impressive. The man was a complete lunatic and the museum itself is a fair reflection of that.
Jfk museum in Dallas. Small and obviously very focused on one subject but very well done all the same.
went to the air and space museum once but there was nothing there
British Museum...all the stuff the cvnt said robbed from all over the world, Elgin Marbles, Rosetta Stone etc
Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland - so much memorabilia and so many stories. Beautifully located too.
Cairo. Just incredible some of the stuff they have
It kills me to say it but the imperial war museum is superb.
The Turkish war museum in Istanbul , which is basically a homage to Kemal Attaturk is excellent.
The Berlin Wall museum is very good.
The Museum in the Reichstag in Berlin is good as is the holocaust museum there.
The S21 museum in Penom Penh in Cambodia is freaky but you only appreciate how good it actually is after you have got the hell out of the place.
The museum in Collins Barracks is good as is the museum in the Curragh.
I went to a museum in the engadin in Switzerland that was on 2 small floors but had the most amazing multimedia and spent 2 hours in it
The Brits have it nailed. Science Museum and British Museum within spitting distance of one another are both class. Natural History Museum likewise. Berlin Wall Museum very good also. Beaulieu motor museum in England is worth a visit.
Forgot to mention the Museo de La Revolución in Havana was spectacular. It's housed in the old Presidential Palace and the yacht that took Castro et al over from Mexico, the Granma, is out the back. Pure propaganda but really, really cool.
We'll eventually mention every museum in the world, but anyway - The Little Museum Of Dublin is a real gem. And the great thing is, it's not in Havana or Cairo.
I loved Te Papa in Wellington and Kon Tiki in Oslo
Tuol Sleng or S21 in Phomn Penh was gruesome and spine chilling. Not a museum, but Che's mausoleum in Santa Clara made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up like never before.
Quote from: CiKe on May 03, 2016, 10:16:24 AM
I loved Te Papa in Wellington and Kon Tiki in Oslo
Yes agree, that one is awesome.
Quote from: The Iceman on May 03, 2016, 12:04:14 AM
went to the air and space museum once but there was nothing there
I think you mean the vacuum museum.
Quote from: Aristo 60 on May 03, 2016, 12:54:38 PM
Quote from: The Iceman on May 03, 2016, 12:04:14 AM
went to the air and space museum once but there was nothing there
I think you mean the vacuum museum.
Naw that was the Hoover Dam Museum.
You're sucking the air out of this thread.
Auschwitz
Quote from: general_lee on May 03, 2016, 01:14:17 PM
Auschwitz
Was at Mauthausen concentration camp twice in Austria (not far from Linz). A harrowing experience that is hard to describe. No doubt Auschwitz would be even worse.
Quote from: Rois on May 03, 2016, 11:01:57 AM
Quote from: CiKe on May 03, 2016, 10:16:24 AM
I loved Te Papa in Wellington and Kon Tiki in Oslo
Yes agree, that one is awesome.
Normally i couldn't spend more than an hour in a museum - the walking slowly seems to kills me for some reason - but happily spent about 4 hours in Te Papa.
Quote from: Tony Baloney on May 03, 2016, 09:18:57 AM
The Brits have it nailed. Science Museum and British Museum within spitting distance of one another are both class. Natural History Museum likewise. Berlin Wall Museum very good also. Beaulieu motor museum in England is worth a visit.
Tony- I agree about the Science Museum and the British Museum but it's the Natural History or V and A that are beside the Science Museum- the British Museum is in Bloomsbury
Quote from: The Iceman on May 03, 2016, 12:04:14 AM
went to the air and space museum once but there was nothing there
Good one! I'm gonna re-use that.
Quote from: Dubh driocht on May 03, 2016, 05:46:42 PM
Quote from: Tony Baloney on May 03, 2016, 09:18:57 AM
The Brits have it nailed. Science Museum and British Museum within spitting distance of one another are both class. Natural History Museum likewise. Berlin Wall Museum very good also. Beaulieu motor museum in England is worth a visit.
Tony- I agree about the Science Museum and the British Museum but it's the Natural History or V and A that are beside the Science Museum- the British Museum is in Bloomsbury
;D I was in them last year too!
The best I've been to are the Smithsonian ones in Washington.
Others worth a mention:
- British Museum, London, Yeah lots of stuff they robbed, but probably safer there than back in Egypt.
- Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland - Unreal
Quote from: CiKe on May 03, 2016, 10:16:24 AM
I loved Te Papa in Wellington and Kon Tiki in Oslo
Tuol Sleng or S21 in Phomn Penh was gruesome and spine chilling. Not a museum, but Che's mausoleum in Santa Clara made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up like never before.
Nasty place, you defo go away feeling bleak. My neighbour at work has a Cambodian wife,so I was chatting to him about Cambodia one day and it turns out that feckin place was her school before the Khymer Rouge sailed into town!
On the main subject I would say Natural History in New York and the British Museum are very good, would like to visit both again. But for me the Lourve romps to victory here, the place is amazing, been to it 3 or 4 times and still only seen a fraction.
Quote from: CiKe on May 03, 2016, 05:22:07 PM
Quote from: Rois on May 03, 2016, 11:01:57 AM
Quote from: CiKe on May 03, 2016, 10:16:24 AM
I loved Te Papa in Wellington and Kon Tiki in Oslo
Yes agree, that one is awesome.
Normally i couldn't spend more than an hour in a museum - the walking slowly seems to kills me for some reason - but happily spent about 4 hours in Te Papa.
I especially like small museums when you have kids with you.
Checkpoint Charlie was great in that regard and some quaint little museum in Barcelona with Wooly Mammoths was perfect for the family.
The most striking thing about Auschwitz for me was the picture of the naked women about to be murdered. How could the Nazis do that to women, to see them as vermin