Museums

I confess.  I am an art history nerd.  I always try to visit museums when I travel.  Well...actually I've planned some trips entirely around visiting a museum.  It would be hard to list all my favorite artists, but top of the list are Brancusi, Modigliani, Maillol, Fragonard, Renoir, and Van Gogh.  

Art nerding it up at the Louvre

Brancusi's studio - my idea of nirvana

Sexy lighting at Les Arts Decoratifs

Museums I've visited:

1. Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze, Florence
2. American Museum of Natural History, NYC
3. Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
4. Anne Frank House, Amsterdam
5. Aquarium of the Americas, New Orleans
6. Armand Bayou Nature Center, Houston
7. Ashton Villa House Museum, Galveston
8. Atlanta History Museum
9. Austin Museum of Art: Downtown
10. Barnum Museum, Connecticut
11. Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum
12. British Museum, London
13. Cappelle Medicee, Florence
14. Carnegie Children's Museum, Pittsburgh
15. Carnegie Museum of Natural Science, Pittsburgh
16. Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh
17. Centre Pompidou, Paris
18. Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
19. Coex Aquarium, Seoul
20. Cooper-Hewitt, NYC
21. Decorative Arts Museum Paris
22. Dia Beacon, Beacon NY
23. Ellis Island Museum, NYC
24. Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst
25. Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst
26. Ford Museum, Detroit
27. Galleria Borghese, Rome
28. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
29. Galleria dell'Accademia, Venice
30. Galveston Railroad Museum
31. Getty Museum, LA
32. Graceland, Memphis
33. Guggenheim Bilbao
34. Guggenheim NYC
35. Guggenheim Venice
36. Gyeongbokgung Palace, Seoul
37. Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt Historic Site, Hyde Park NY
38. Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
39. Houston Children's Museum 
40. Houston Holocaust Museum
41. Houston Museum of Contemporary Art
42. Houston Museum of Natural Science
43. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
44. Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam
45. Kimbell Art Museum, Dallas
46. King Sejong Memorial Hall, Seoul
47. Kinkakuji, Kyoto
48. Korean Folk Village, Seoul
49. Louvre Museum, Paris
50. Maillol Museum, Paris
51. Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford
52. McNay Art Museum, San Antonio
53. Meadows Museum, Dallas
54. Meiji Shrine, Tokyo
55. Menil Collection, Houston
56. Mexican Cultural Institute, San Antonio
57. Mies Van Der Rohe Pavillion, Barcelona
58. Miraikan, National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo
59. Mitaka Ghibli Museum, Tokyo
60. Moody Gardens, Galveston
61. Moody Mansion Museum, Galveston
62. Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
63. Musee d'Orsay, Paris
64. Musee Rodin, Paris
65. Museo Correr, Venice
66. Museu Archeologico Nazionale Napoli
67. Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
68. Museu Textil i d' Instumentaria, Barcelona
69. Museum at FIT, NYC
70. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
71. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
72. Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe
73. Museum of Modern Art, NYC
74. Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas
75. Museum of Science, Boston
76. Museum of the City of New York
77. Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
78. National Aquarium, Baltimore
79. National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, Dallas
80. National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC
81. National Portrait Gallery, London
82. New York Botanical Garden, NYC
83. Osaka Aquarium
84. Palazzo Pitti, Florence
85. Phipps Conservatory, Pittsburgh
86. PS1 Contemporary Art Center, NYC
87. Renoir Museum, Paris
88. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
89. Ringling Museum, Florida
90. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland
91. Ryoanji Temple, Kyoto
92. Sagamore Historic Site, Oyster Bay NY
93. Salem Witch Museum
94. Scrovegni Chapel, Padova,
95. Sensoji Temple, Tokyo
96. Shitennoji Temple, Osaka
97. Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
98. South Austin Museum of Pop Culture
99. Space Center Houston
100. Tacoma Glass Museum
101. The Cloisters, NYC
102. The Field Museum, Chicago
103. The Frick Collection, NYC
104. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
105. The Orange Show, Houston
106. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
107. Vatican Museum, Rome
108. Whitney Museum, NYC