"Name your favorite museum." Topic

What is your favorite museum?

Imperial War Museum, London, UK – The books, the paintings, the maps Oh my!

National maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, UK – Models of every single boat class every built. Maps, paintings…

Bovington Tank Museum, Wareham, UK – 'Cos, it's tanks. What more do you need?

Now, to think of Museums elsewhere…

Hard to say really – you can't beat a military collection of course:
Royal Armouries, Leeds
Belgian Army Museum, Brussels
Army Museum, Stockholm
Not been since the 70's but probably Bovington.
There are some great ships :
Vasa
Victory
HMS Belfast
Trincomalee
Mary Rose
Also love:
British Museum
National Museum of Scotland
Heck and probably loads more that I have forgotten…

For several personal reasons

Balhousie Castle theblackwatch.co.uk

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Army Museum, Stockholm.
West Point Museum.
The now gone New York State Museum with the display of the Iroquois and Mastodon.
Fort Ticonderoga.

The Spanish Army Museum in Toledo.

National Museum of the Marine Corps in Virginia is incredible. And free!

Anne Carter Brown Museum

National Museum of the U.S. Air Force

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Louve, MOMA, Phila. Museum of Art

The Military Museum in Vienna is fantastic

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Royal Armoury in Leeds, Bovington

The now gone Armor Museum at Ft. Knox.

IWM Duxford
Air Force museum at Hendon
National Army Museum (UK)

the Winchester Museum in Cody /Wyoming.Also Das Deutsches Museum in Munich..also because when you are done..you are in Munich..nothing but fun.I do also love the Natl. US.Air Museum by Wright Patterson AFB.

National Museum of American History
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American Museum of Natural History
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National Museum of the US Air Force
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Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome
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Another vote for the USAF museum in Dayton.

Imperial War Museum, London

Hotel des Invalides, Paris

Major Mike,

I hate to hear that they closed the Armor Museum at Fort Knox. When I lived in Kentucky I visited it at least a half a dozen times. It was a true gem.

Can't give you a top museum but I can do a Top 5 in no particular order.

British Museum
Canadian War Museum
Imperial War Museum
Les Invalides
Royal Armouries Leeds

BM, the Met.

My favorite Museum ever is the Milwaukee County Museum, which is an amazing Museum for it's size and budget. As a boy it opened the world to me and I enjoy it to this day. The old streets of Milwaukee was a particular favorite, though I loved the world rooms that show off areas around the world.

As for military museums, my tops is the Imperial War Museum, with the Museum of the US Air Force close behind. I enjoyed the Royal Air Force Museum at Hendon, the US Marine Museum, the American Heritage Museum (Collings Collection) and Battleship Park in Fall River, Massachusetts.

Other great Museums I've enjoyed are The British Museum, The Hermitage and Museum of Art in Milwaukee. Does Edinburgh Castle count? I love that place.

Would love to get to Bovington and Duxford.

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Smithsonian Air and Space Museum

National Museum of the USAF

National Marine Corps Museum

National WWII Museum

Smithsonian National Museum of American History

National Museum of the Pacific War

Met

New York Historical Society

Amon Carter Museum

Dallas Museum of Art

EMP Museum Seattle

American Museum of Natural History

Gettysburg Museum at the Gettysburg National Park

Civil War Naval Museum

The Getty

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The Petersen Automotive Museum

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The Henry Ford Museum

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The National Corvette

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The National WWI Museum

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British Museum

Udvar Hazy Adjunct Museum to the Air and Space Museum. Right next to Dulles airport.

All in the UK –
Imperial War Museum
Royal Navy Museum – Greenwich
Bovington Tank Museum
Albert & Victoria
Natural History Museum

And then –
State Historical and Memorial Preserve The Battle of Stalingrad (Not one building but oh so many sites…)
Militia Museum, Kharkiv (Not so much the museum as (in the late 1990's) talking with the old guys who'd been in the WW2 battles and their sons who were the tour guides).
Central Armed Forces Mueseum in Moscow. Boy do these guys try hard. Well worth if if you're a tread head.
Another Moscow Museum – The "Streletskiye Palaty" if you prefer the swords, muskets and pikes end of military history. Amazing stuff.

A lot to choose from.

US? The Smithsonian's Air&Space hangar at Dulles, DC

UK? The new IWM galleries, London, UK (The National Museum, Scotland in Edinburgh is a very close second.)

Europe? The Cloth Hall Museum, Ypres, Belgium (The German History Museum in Berlin would be my number 2.)

Canada? The Canadian War Museum, Ottawa

Asia? The Te Papa Museum, Wellington, NZ

Africa? The Museum of Antiquities, Cairo, Egypt

I've visited all of these. Many others that are superb too, but I found these exceptional.

British Museum
Smithsonian
National Army Museum

pretty much in that order.

But far too many I've never seen.

National WWI Museum, Kansas City, MO
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Russian Vodka Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
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H. R. Giger Museum/Bar, Gruyères, Switzerland
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My mini storage room, upstairs,. my house

The US ARMY Infantry Museum at Ft. Benning, GA of course !

The Unlimited Hydroplane Racing Museum in Kent, WA-because, well, hydroplanes.

The National Museum of Art in Washington DC because of its calming design.

The Seattle Museum of Flight because of their excellent collection—and once a year they let us game under the SR-71 in the great gallery.

USS Alabama, USS Texas, 45TH Infantry Division in Oklahoma, Camp Mabry in Austin Texas, Nimitz Museum in Fredericksburg Texas.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Been there … but liked the INF museum better …