Museums

Science

• The Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia. I used to volunteer here.
• The Museum of Science in Boston. One of my favorites. This museum has a great math exhibit and the lightning show is amazing.
• Maryland Science Center in Baltimore. This is a pretty good museum.
• American Museum of Natural History in New York City. This was always one of my favorite museums as a kid. It has a life size blue whale hanging from the ceiling and lots of dinosaur bones. Cool.
• National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. This has always been my favorite museum in the Smithsonian.
• National Museum of Natural History in Washinton, DC. This one's pretty good.
• The Exploratorium in San Francisco. I haven't been here yet, but I've heard great things.

History and Industry

• National Museum of American History in Washington, DC. Lots of interesting stuff here.
• The Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village in Detroit. This place is pretty neat. They have lots of equipment.
• The Fonthill Museum in Bucks County, PA. This museum is part of the Mercer families of museums and it has lots of old equipment and wagons and things.

Art

• The Lourve in Paris. What else can be said but AMAZING, AMAZING, AMAZING. I don't consider myself a huge fan of art museums, but this place was incredible! And it wasn't the famous pieces that impressed me, actually. I loved the ceilings and the rooms and the HUGE medeival paintings that take up entire walls depicting entire battlescenes. I wandered around lost for hours. It was incredible.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art. Quite good, although it is probably best known as the steps that Rocky runs up. There was a big fight but the Rocky statue was declared not art and moved back to the sports complex.
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Pretty good.

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Last updated May 10, 2001