A Museums thread...

[rover3]

Am surprised there isn't one. For both well and badly designed museums of course.

What prompted me to start this was I couldn't find an image of the terribly, terribly hideous looking modern museum of Salzburg, Austria. The one which seems to have like little stubs or cut-off roots on its black roof. It is really hideous when you see it.

But I couldn't find any. I guess it is so ugly that pictures of it are so scarce.

[lordcreso]

Guggenheim Bilbao (one of the best 20th century buildings)

http://www.itea.arcelor.com/imagenes/edificios/estado/223-126-Guggenheim%20(Large).jpg
http://www.ojodigital.net/data/503/guggenheim-bilbao.jpg

http://www.arquinews.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/museo-guggenheim-bilbao1.jpg

[TalB]

To start with musuems in NYC, here is the set for Manhattan.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2241/2347663907_761f45bf05_b.jpg

American Museum of Natural History and Hayden Planetirium
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1224/544786845_0d927e772c_b.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1265/544788679_7dcd1863fc_b.jpg

Solomon R Guggenhiem Musuem
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/55/131272560_c9c9c13913_o.jpg

MoMA
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2065/2338159942_2d1a8a3acc_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3078/2326676818_30e3316a5f_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2125/2291806525_773ae114d2_b.jpg
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/53rdstreet/36a.moma.jpg

MCNY
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/21/33006303_f45b0de734_o.jpg

ICP (uptown/midtown)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2093/2316528625_4d7db484ce_b.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1406/1449811817_59db3e3f16_o.jpg

Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2152/2092942790_6f10cb3c36_b.jpg

The Frick Collection
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3234/2296796687_20c1178467_b.jpg

NY Historical Society
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2002/2227250435_ed7bfc880a_b.jpg

CMOM
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/128/416590149_a88a9b0dc3_b.jpg

LES Tennament Museum
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/113/278178766_937ed4c2c0_b.jpg

New Museum of Contemporary Art
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2370/2328598460_e95f609cc6_o.jpg

Whitney Museum of Art
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3259/2304551311_9a38728667_o.jpg

Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2318/2280362371_510bb731dd_b.jpg

Hamilton Grange Ntl Monument
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2096/2193427165_83a773e799_b.jpg

Morris-Jumell Mansion
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3292/2303398888_068e055ee9_b.jpg

Museum of the American Indian (former US Customs House)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2043/1909566889_1a4e33b71d_o.jpg

Skyscraper Museum
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/89/225001319_5624e7e919_o.jpg

Museum of Jewish Heritage
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2136/1507658929_c78adb42ac_b.jpg

American Folk Art Museum
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2043/2227149587_6a7d28082a_b.jpg

The Cloisters
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/164/342156022_d0855ca33b_o.jpg

Mt Vernon Hotel Museum and Gardens
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/16/152450431_5681119886_b.jpg

South St Seaport Museum
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3259/2331138155_fb7e1e1778_b.jpg

Federal Hall Ntl Memioral
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3158/2288255582_1f624838d1_b.jpg

Fraunces Tavern and Museum
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2104/2334967449_200365220a_b.jpg

Harlem Studio Museum
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1190/1217007579_8c591a4f0d_o.jpg

NYC Fire Museum
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2159/2083177890_a1dd804006_b.jpg

NYC Police Museum
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1300/1279777513_d0873b92f3_b.jpg

Museum of Sex
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2375/2251755884_69d1dc6877_b.jpg

Madam Tussaud's Times Sq Wax Museum
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/36/81515150_ddb9ad1e18_b.jpg

The Museum of TV and Radio
http://mtr.inet7.com/PressRoom/pressphotos/ny_building_color1.jpg

Forbes Gallery
http://www.nyc-architecture.com/GV/005-central_village_forbes.jpg

El Museo del Barrio
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/180/419951643_6ef1dbd4cc_b.jpg

Merchants House Museum
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2104/2231444269_e803963e05_o.jpg

Rubin Museum of Art
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2411/2246924335_2d5f457268_b.jpg

JP Morgan Library and Museum
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1227/572281123_61d3d12281_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3294/2295056564_e63dc46f14_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2395/1986108322_4a032b59f4_o.jpg

Dyckman Farmhouse
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/223/470219973_78059833b2_o.jpg

Jewish Museum (not to be confused with the Jewish Heritage Museum)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Jewish_museum_new_york_2006.jpg/800px-Jewish_museum_new_york_2006.jpg

Japan Society of NY
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1252/1389013224_20ee8d660b_b.jpg

Asia Society of NY
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2256/2267477417_32aa94c8b1_b.jpg

Ellis Island Museum (partially in NJ)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3262/2364621481_28daf0ab71_b.jpg

[rover3]

Wow, TalB, thanks for the comprehensive portfolio of NY museums. It kinda makes me nostalgic. I didn't see half of those when I lived in NYC in the 70s and early 80s. Of course, half of those weren't established as the museums that they are today.

Great work!!

[the spliff fairy]

London has over 300 museums, these are the biggest:

1. British Museum, the worlds greatest antiquities museum with 7 million exhibits:

http://www.fosterandpartners.com/content/projects/0828/77556.jpg

http://www.richard-seaman.com/Travel/UK/London/Highlights/BritishMuseumFront.jpg

http://z.about.com/d/golondon/1/0/7/F/-/-/Mummies.jpg



2. The V & A, the worlds largest applied arts museum, 4 million exhibits

http://www.e-architect.co.uk/london/jpgs/london_building_aw050507_262.jpg

http://www.uva.co.uk/wp/wp-content/projects/volume/Volume01.jpg

http://z.about.com/d/cruises/1/0/4/z/1/london040.jpg http://www.milesfaster.co.uk/information/london-attractions/images/victoria-albert-museum.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/174/365789503_ce0a1f0494_o.jpg



3. Tate Modern, the worlds largest modern art gallery:


http://www.worldofart.org/aktualno/wp-content/2007-08/stallabrass/lecture/54tate-modern.jpg


http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/C1705165967/E20070615083458/Media/Tate%20inside.jpg

http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/images/eliasson3.jpg

http://marksquires.com/Images_Photos/tatemodern.jpg

http://www.core.form-ula.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/marsyas_09cc.jpg


4. Natural History Museum and Wellcome Collection, the worlds largest collection of its type, an estimated 12 million exhibits:


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Natural_History_Museum_London_Jan_2006.jpg/800px-Natural_History_Museum_London_Jan_2006.jpg

http://images.povcomp.com/entries/images/800/199_main.jpg

http://www.paultownend.com/photos/london-feb2007/london71.jpg

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2006/apr/images/dinojaws-door-370_8065_1.jpg http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/43996000/jpg/_43996988_dinosaur416getty.jpg


5. National Gallery, the Greatest Hits of Western Art, 2300 paintings:

http://www.atpm.com/7.05/london/images/national-gallery.jpg

http://gallery.nen.gov.uk/gallery_images/0708/0000/0145/dscf1208_mid.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/61/170343093_b1194b8824.jpg


6. Science Museum Massive and one of the most popular attractions in the city, very interactive and modern

http://www.pinballnews.com/news/science2.jpg http://www.m-o-d-e.net/uploaded_images/science.jpg

http://www.paultownend.com/photos/london-feb2007/london64.jpg http://www.timbrooke.phpwebhosting.com/images/scimusIDEO/bloids.jpg


7. Tate Britain, the massive storehouse of British art, old and new

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Tate.britain.arp.750pix.jpg/748px-Tate.britain.arp.750pix.jpg http://www.uniquevenuesoflondon.co.uk/tate_britain/flash/venue_large_tate.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2375/2084616735_0aa8f9b488.jpg

http://ryangladstone.com/images/112606_tate_modern.jpg




8. Somerset House: Three museums in one, and a branch of The Hermitage housed in a former riverside palace

http://www.gifford.uk.com/Images/ProjectProfiles/Somerset%20House%20The%20Strand%20London.jpg http://z.about.com/d/golondon/1/0/w/B/-/-/SomersetHouseofficial.JPG

http://www.urban75.org/photos/london/images/lon436.jpg http://www.uniquevenuesoflondon.co.uk/somerset_house/flash/venue_large_somerset.jpg


9. Royal Academy: A private institution infamous for democratic art

http://www.urban75.org/london/images/royal-academy-08.jpg http://www.uniquevenuesoflondon.co.uk/royal_academy_arts/flash/venue_large_royal_academy.jpg

http://www.danyey.co.uk/lon98.jpg


10. Queens Gallery and Buckingham Palace showcase venue for the worlds largest private art collection, (1 million items)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Buckingham_Palace,_London,_England,_24Jan04.jpg

http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/egallery/images/collection_large/8500087.jpg http://z.about.com/d/golondon/1/0/V/7/-/-/BP0581_SDR.jpg http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/egallery/images/collection_large/8500080.jpg


With the exception of the last three all the museums are free

[OakRidge]

I can't remember seeing a new good looking museum. You see, the Guggenheim Bilbao is one of the ugliest things I have ever seen. The fact that it was designed by Frank Gehry makes it even worse.

[JJFox]

Vienna

Museumsquartier:
http://www.mqw.at/
The Museumsquartier (MQ) is a 60,000 m² large area in the 7th district of the city of Vienna, Austria; it is the eighth largest cultural area in the world. The Museumsquartier contains Baroque buildings as well as Modern architecture.

http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/planen/staedtebau-projekte/kulturforum/pix/international/wien_luftbild_470.jpg

MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst (Museum of Modern Art)
http://www.mumok.at/
http://www.mumok.at/uploads/tx_sbmumokheader/02_Aussen02_Steiner.jpg

http://www.mumok.at/uploads/tx_sbmumokheader/08-MUMOK_Foyer02.jpg http://www.mumok.at/uploads/tx_sbmumokheader/09-Liftansicht1.jpg

Leopold Museum
http://www.leopoldmuseum.org/
one of the largest collections of modern Austrian art, featuring artists such as Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka and Richard Gerstl.
http://www.cusoon.at/original/1185532108/leopold-museum-wien-wien.jpg

http://www.ortner.at/images/LM_3.jpg http://www.ortner.at/images/LM_4.jpg



Albertina
http://www.albertina.at/
It houses one of the largest and most important print room collections in the world with approximately 65,000 drawings and approximately 1 million old master prints, as well as more modern graphics works.

http://www.hotelstadthalle.at/images/sideimgs/big/albertina_0.jpghttp://vienna-photo.esem.sk/photo/albertina.jpg http://www.bda.at/image/tn450x_237484452.jpg


Kunsthistorisches Museum (Museum of Art History)
http://www.khm.at/
The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, housed in its festive palatial building on Ringstraße, crowned with an octagonal dome, is one of the premier museums of fine arts and decorative arts in the world.

http://www.icom-oesterreich.at/2007/grafik/presse_khm.jpg



Naturhistorisches Museum (Natural History Museum Vienna )
http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/
http://www.austria-and-more.at/Portals/0/Partner/Naturhistorisches%20Museum/naturhistorisches_Museum_aussen_585x230.jpg


Technisches Museum (Vienna Technical Museum)
http://www.tmw.ac.at/
http://www.lindlbauer.at/tmw.jpg

Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
http://www.belvedere.at/
is a museum housed in the Belvedere palace, in Vienna, Austria.
The art collection includes masterpieces from the Middle Ages and Baroque until the 21. century, though it focuses on Austrian painters from the Fin de Siècle and Art Nouveau period.

http://www.burgis-welt.at/Bilder/belvedereO.jpg


Liechtenstein Museum
http://www.liechtensteinmuseum.at/
The Liechtenstein Museum is in Vienna, Austria, named after the House of Liechtenstein, one of Europe's oldest noble families. The museum includes the Princely Collections containing important European works of art, forming one of the world's leading private art collections.

http://www.rum-ausbau.de/bb/rum/bb_rum_ausbau_online_de.nsf/allByID/2587C7284C202924C1257103003EA405/$FILE/b_palais.jpg



Heeresgeschichtliches Museum (Museum of military history vienna)
http://www.hgm.or.at/
It claims to be the oldest and largest purpose-built military history museum in the world. Its collection includes one of the world's largest collections of bronze cannon and focuses on Austrian military history from the 16th century to 1945.

http://www.location-austria.at/assets/images/cache/435_88b85ec8-2339-45e4-a948-6553772e1274.jpg


Museum angewandte Kunst (Contemporary Art)
http://www.mak.at/
http://www.rolandrust.com/up/exhibitions/mak.jpeg

[TalB]

The next set of NYC museums comes from Brooklyn.

The Brooklyn Museum of Art
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3106/2336945995_a56fb503cb_o.jpg

Brooklyn Historical Society
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1324/1423721130_1ed6aebeab_b.jpg

Hudson Waterfront Museum
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2235/2275212935_4e94391fc2_o.jpg

Pieter Claeson Wyckoff House
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/56/277779682_868af01d1a_o.jpg

NY Transit Museum
http://images.nycsubway.org/i50000/img_50031.jpg

Brooklyn Children's Museum
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/197/447135722_06ef0e1670_o.jpg

Jewish Children's Museum
http://architecture.nyc-arts.org/images/projects/jcm_003_xlarge

Hist Hunterfly Rd Houses
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/60/217912323_eedbb98e06_b.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/87/217911601_17bb8736f4_b.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/76/217913404_c2e31abc18_b.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/87/217913401_f3163aad15_b.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/69/217913400_c33b127062_b.jpg

[TalB]

The next set of museums comes from Queens.

P. S. 1 (branch of MoMA)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3269/2354410069_a6322a7b60_o.jpg

American Museum of the Moving Image
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/American_Museum_of_the_Moving_Image.JPG/450px-American_Museum_of_the_Moving_Image.JPG

Noguchi Museum
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2303/2312113156_8812d4d036_b.jpg

Queens Historical Society (Kingland Homestead)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/115/364933589_8747c45334_b.jpg

NY Hall of Science
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/6/5841600_00e5bb3a58_b.jpg

Queens Museum of Art
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2015/2227118295_bc5b06117a_o.jpg

Queens County Farm Museum
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1300/545010955_bf6b4c962b_o.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/114/270888694_5a70191934_b.jpg

Louis Armstrong House
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2139/2144379377_143eef8d28_b.jpg

Kings Mansion
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2146/1731605875_9edfe19fb8_b.jpg

Ft Totten
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1036/864237019_25c96dc6bc_o.jpg

Museum of African Art (will be moving to Manhattan around this year)
http://z.about.com/d/queens/1/0/Q/1/art_african.jpg

Creedmoor Living Museum
http://www.abandonedbutnotforgotten.com/Creedmoor%20NYC/DSCF7532.JPG

[rover3]

@ Spliff Fairy. Great job too, thanks. But I have 2 questions and 1 comment:

1. I think London AND Paris must be equal in the # of museums AND the holdings of each.

2. Now about the National Gallery: wouldn't the Hermitage in St. Petersburg and/or the Louvre have about the same or MORE paintings? Also, it's not ABOUT quantity; it's QUALITY.

Finally, I think that Tate Modern is one of the coldest, ugliest, most forboding museums in the world. It looks like it belongs in Auschwitz or Treblinka. Never liked it.

[Taller, Better]

The new extension of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto - Photo posted by Skybean (photographer unknown):

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2031/2314929797_1c344fa84a_b.jpg

an article posted today in the Toronto forums about it:

Buildings from Dubai to China to New York highlight a magazine's list of the world's best designs.

Magazine names 7 wonders of architecture

Mon Mar 24, 11:30 AM ET



NEW YORK - From the tall tower in Dubai to a contemporary art museum on New York's Lower East Side, noteworthy architecture is springing up around the globe. Conde Nast Traveler's April issue picks seven designs as the "new seven wonders of the architecture world." They are:

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-Cumulus, an exhibit hall at Danfoss Universe, a science and technology museum in Nordborg, Denmark. The building has an irregular roof, all curves and angles, like a bite taken out of a cloud.

-Burj Dubai, the world's tallest building, which is under construction in the Middle East and is already more than 1,700 feet tall. The final height is a secret but its developer, Emaar Properties, has previously said it will stop somewhere above 2,275 feet and will exceed 160 floors.

-London's new Wembley Stadium, which seats 90,000 with no obstructed sight lines. A massive 436-foot-tall, 1,000-foot-long single arch braces the retractable roof. The stadium will be a centerpiece of the 2012 Olympics.

-New Museum of Contemporary Art, designed to resemble an off-kilter stack of silvery rectangles, located on the Bowery on Manhattan's once-seedy, now-trendy Lower East Side.

-Kogod Courtyard, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., a curved roof made from a patterned grid of glass and steel above shallow pools in the courtyard of the Old Patent Office Building, also known as the Reynolds Center and home to the American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery.

-Red Ribbon, Tanghe River Park, in Qinhuangdao, China, about 180 miles east of Beijing, a steel bench that runs a third of a mile through a riverbank garden and ecological oasis.

-The Crystal, a controversial new entryway and exhibit space at Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum, whose sharp, even jagged angles have not been universally loved by the locals. It was designed by Daniel Libeskind.

[the spliff fairy]

@ Spliff Fairy. Great job too, thanks. But I have 2 questions and 1 comment:

1. I think London AND Paris must be equal in the # of museums AND the holdings of each.

2. Now about the National Gallery: wouldn't the Hermitage in St. Petersburg and/or the Louvre have about the same or MORE paintings? Also, it's not ABOUT quantity; it's QUALITY.

Finally, I think that Tate Modern is one of the coldest, ugliest, most forboding museums in the world. It looks like it belongs in Auschwitz or Treblinka. Never liked it.

Yep, the whole point of the National Gallery is that it has cherry picked the masterpieces of Western art from every period pre 1900. By comparison the Louvre has 30,000 paintings compared to the National's paltry 2300, but theyre in the same league, considered some of the best Western paintings museums in the world - the others being the Hermitage, El Prado and the Met in NYC. The Louvre is considered with the best quality collection aswell as numbers.

The Hermitage has 3 million items in its collections, but of that it has a few thousand paintings. London's original Museum was of course the British Museum, but its massive collection was split into the British Library (6 million books), the National Gallery (2300 paintings), and the Natural History Museum (14 million exhibits). Recently the Wellcome Museum and the Commonwealth Collections rejoined the BM. It now has 7 million works remaining.

Londons other great collections are the V & A ( 4 million artworks), and the Royal Collection (1 million artworks). Propping all that up are 300 other art galleries and 300 museums, and stuffed to the eaves with art, 6 palaces and 5 cathedrals, and to a lesser extent, 4000 churches. The city has long been a global centre of the art trade, its also importantly been a global centre of thieving colonialism whereby it took in the glittering hordes from the greatest land empire ever, from the Parthenon Marbles to Tipoo Sultans Golden Throne, to the largest diamonds in the world taken from India and Africa and set into the Crown Jewels. In short its just one big bag of stolen booty.

PS I adore the Tate Modern.

[Taller, Better]

spliff!! a little Tate Modern humour you may get a kick out of!
An oldie, but a goodie! :D

UkunQmpvkh0

[TalB]

Now that I am back from that four day hiatus, here is the set of NYC museums in The Bronx.

Bronx Museum of Art
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3003/2329393063_dee73f4cfa_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3137/2321980155_a633118896_b.jpg

Bronx Historical Society (former Valentine-Varian House)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/51/129733283_ae2745c912_b.jpg

Van Cortland House Museum
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1042/1403748243_a6cf437cb5_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2194/1970594093_f291f790d9_o.jpg

Bartow-Pell Mansion
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3075/2346505449_dbe4ed9b9f_b.jpg

Edgar Allen Poe Cottage
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/399385480_48052e9848_o.jpg

Hall of Fame for Famous Americans
http://www.hartisland.de/Bronx/Universityhgs/uni00122.jpg

City Island Historical Nautical Museum
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/YOU'D%20NEVER%20BELIEVE/cityisland/fordham2.jpg

[the spliff fairy]

spliff!! a little Tate Modern humour you may get a kick out of!
An oldie, but a goodie! :D

UkunQmpvkh0


That is great! :D Says it all....

http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/MultimediaStudentProjects/00-01/9704524l/MM%20Project/Images/bricks_3.jpg

The Tate is littered with thse pieces of dodgy conceptualism - 100 bricks laid in a grid was infamously bought in the 1970s for £20,000 (and now worth 100x that). Some artist has also put some of his pieces on the floor that you are unsure whether is art - your footsteps on the metal chessboard-like pieces is part of it. I love taking my mates and hissing 'Noooo! Youre actually stepping ON the art!' then watch them freeze like a deer in headlights and that sudden look of horror.

I kid ye not, once the Tate had to repaint its walls and do a bit of building work in the galleries, and fencing them off with those single line barriers. What they got was thousands of people inspecting pots of paint, drying walls and builders tools. I dont know to this day whether it was an intentional joke by the builders/ curators/ artists or just one those accidental things that exposes modern art as the urinal it often is :D

[Geokioy]

Athens' (Greece's Capital) New Acropolis Museum...

http://www.newacropolismuseum.gr/eng/photos/gallery_cons_large/myImage_6.jpg

http://www.newacropolismuseum.gr/eng/photos/gallery_cons_large/myImage_2.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2166/2071445625_a11072bad7_b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2162/2095804131_2c419075fa_o.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2190/2096580332_d105707286_o.jpg

http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc19/athenian82/2243503440102157290rLQNqa_ph.jpg

http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc19/athenian82/2462848550102157290YwVKpo_ph.jpg

for more info http://www.newacropolismuseum.gr/

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/NAMA_Fa%C3%A7ade.jpg/800px-NAMA_Fa%C3%A7ade.jpg

Hellenic Cosmos...

http://www.tholos254.gr/images/tour_01_bg.jpg

http://www.tholos254.gr/images/tour_02_bg.jpg

http://www.tholos254.gr/images/tour_03_bg.jpg

for more info http://www.hellenic-cosmos.gr/index_en.html

Evgenidou Planetarium

http://www.eugenfound.edu.gr/portal/gr/9/2/3/1/showdoc.html

Benaki's Museums

http://www.benaki.gr/index.asp?id=10204&lang=en

[rover3]

That is great! :D Says it all....

http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/MultimediaStudentProjects/00-01/9704524l/MM%20Project/Images/bricks_3.jpg

The Tate is littered with thse pieces of dodgy conceptualism - 100 bricks laid in a grid was infamously bought in the 1970s for £20,000 (and now worth 100x that). Some artist has also put some of his pieces on the floor that you are unsure whether is art - your footsteps on the metal chessboard-like pieces is part of it. I love taking my mates and hissing 'Noooo! Youre actually stepping ON the art!' then watch them freeze like a deer in headlights and that sudden look of horror.

I kid ye not, once the Tate had to repaint its walls and do a bit of building work in the galleries, and fencing them off with those single line barriers. What they got was thousands of people inspecting pots of paint, drying walls and builders tools. I dont know to this day whether it was an intentional joke by the builders/ curators/ artists or just one those accidental things that exposes modern art as the urinal it often is :D

TOTALLY agree with you on this. Most of so-called 'modern art' is just merde.

[Taller, Better]

Some of the artists must have a good laugh... all the way to the bank.

[`dlskt]

Guggenheim Bilbao (one of the best 20th century buildings)

http://www.itea.arcelor.com/imagenes/edificios/estado/223-126-Guggenheim%20(Large).jpg
http://www.ojodigital.net/data/503/guggenheim-bilbao.jpg

http://www.arquinews.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/museo-guggenheim-bilbao1.jpg

Pwoahh! What a stunner :okay:

[Wuppeltje]

Museums in Amsterdam
A selection of museums in Amsterdam, virtually all of them are in or near the city center of Amsterdam.

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam / National Museum Amsterdam (only 1 wing is open now)
http://www.redhatsisters.nl/images/i%20amsterdam.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/X_PICT0078.jpg

Stedelijk Museum / City Museum Amsterdam (currently open on a different location)
http://www.bmz.amsterdam.nl/adam/pics/groot/stedelijk/stedelijk1.jpg
http://www.stedelijk.nl/content/tnL_3_web.jpg

Van Gogh Museum
http://www.e-architect.co.uk/amsterdam/jpgs/amsterdam_building_aw200407_811.jpg
http://www.e-architect.co.uk/amsterdam/jpgs/amsterdam_building_aw200407_814.jpg

Hermitage Amsterdam (currently only a part of the building is open, expanding into the whole building)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Hermitage_amsterdam_panorama.jpg/800px-Hermitage_amsterdam_panorama.jpg
http://kunst.nl/news/images/amhermitbouw23.jpg

Amsterdam Historical Museum
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/nl/5/5b/Meisjes.jpg

Museum Rembrandtshuis - New left part on the left, on the right the old famous Rembrandt House.
http://www.minbuza.nl/binaries/afbeeldingen-nieuw/foto-album/nederland-in-beelden/detailfoto-s/087.jpg

Jewish Historical Museum
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Joods_historisch_museum.jpg/800px-Joods_historisch_museum.jpg

Science Center
http://www.sciencecenteropschool.nl/nemo/files/Image/NEMO%20kopie%20klein%20klein%20%20kopie.jpg

Resistance Museum
http://www.bmz.amsterdam.nl/adam/pics/msp/plancius.jpg

Allard Pierson Museum (Archaeological museum of the Universiteit van Amsterdam. The ancient civilisations of ancient Egypt, the Near East, the Greek World, Etruria and the Roman Empire)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/nl/c/cf/Dnb1.jpg

Filmmuseum
http://www.jlgrealestate.com/images/paginas/5975_Filmmuseum1.jpg

Tropenmuseum / Tropical Museum
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Tropenmuseum_front.jpg/800px-Tropenmuseum_front.jpg

Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum / Netherlands Maritime Museum (closed, will be reopened in 2009)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/82/250305137_1cab3e74f3_b.jpg
Photo by: A.J. Haverkamp

Heineken Experience (closed now, will be reopend in june 2008)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/HeinekenBrouwerij.jpg/800px-HeinekenBrouwerij.jpg

Olympic Experience Amsterdam
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Amsterdam_Olympisch_Stadion.jpg

Electrische Museumtramlijn Amsterdam / Electrical Tramline Museum Amsterdam (operates on an old line with old trams)
http://www.haarlemmermeerspoor.nl/willemspark1.jpg

Zoölogisch Museum Amsterdam / Natural History Museum Amsterdam
http://www.science.uva.nl/cache/CE89395F-2447-49E9-AA7A47F9A4A79F3E.FOTO_IN.jpg

Nieuwe Kerk / New Church (Cultural center)
http://www.bmz.amsterdam.nl/adam/pics/groot/paleis/paleis6.jpg

Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder / House Church
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/nl/thumb/8/84/Onze_lieve_heer_op_zolder.jpg/331px-Onze_lieve_heer_op_zolder.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/nl/thumb/c/cc/Amstelkring3.jpg/405px-Amstelkring3.jpg

Anne Frankhuis / Anne Frank House
http://www.stedentrippers.nl/i/m/618.jpg

[TalB]

Finally, here is the number of museums in Staten Island to end it for NYC.

Staten Island Lighthouse Museum
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/208/485681128_09264d9def_o.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/178/485681384_1e2e4e4169_o.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/221/485712679_cc4d4c2328_o.jpg

Staten Island Children's Museum
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1397/798534518_bdab36f1d1_b.jpg

Giarabaldi-Meucci Museum
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/122/274961272_ccf83bf3cf_b.jpg

Richmondtown Restoration and Staten Island Historical Society
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1001/1469093438_9f932f803e_o.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1261/1468232113_a8a4794d23_o.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1148/1469090558_ffc1b00e45_o.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1053/1469089836_48a2795e7f_o.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1228/1469089076_a735b8582e_o.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1373/1468151869_f0a5be1101_o.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1319/1468150459_c479e98a6d_o.jpg

Alice Austen House
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/austen/ccomfort4.jpg

Staten Island Museum
http://www.statenislandhistorian.com/imageBin/SIMuseum.gif

Decker Farmhouse
http://blog.silive.com/homegarden_impact_design/2007/09/0927DECKER2.jpg

Conference House
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/186/441204633_a257601a7b_o.jpg

[TalB]

Next month, 26-28 Boradway, which is the former Standard Oil Co Bldg, will have the Sports Museum of America.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/19/102837620_e0fa117412_b.jpg

[tpe]

Pictures from the AIC and AIA web sites.

The Art Institute of Chicago:

http://www.americanrail.com/images/travelog/Chicago_Art_Institute.jpg

The Modern Wing (Renzo Piano):

http://www.artic.edu/aic/modern_wing/images/MW_home.jpg



Not just a museum: the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, a few blocks south of the Art Institute:

http://www.choosechicago.com/Image%20Resource%20Gallery/museums/071206_museum_spertus.jpg

http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek06/0922/0922d_tampa9spertus_b.jpg

[540_804]

The future art museum in Roanoke, VA (my hometown)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2245/2147262088_a880f16828.jpg
http://www.artmuseumroanoke.org/media/images/spectrum/wireframe.jpg
http://www.risatech.com/gallery/amwv/image_01.jpg
http://www.stagesound.com/currentImage.jpg <--progress (not sure if the pic will work)
http://www.europeanarch.eu/images/events_artmuseum.jpg

[540_804]

Science Museum of Virginia

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Science_Museum_of_Virginia_20070916.jpg/800px-Science_Museum_of_Virginia_20070916.jpg

[TalB]

Click here (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/arts/design/01whit.html?ref=design) for the artcile on the possible move for the Whitney Museum of Art, and here are the renderings.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/04/30/arts/renzoslide1.jpg
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/04/30/arts/renzoslide2.jpg
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/04/30/arts/Renzoslide3.jpg
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/04/30/arts/renzoslide4.jpg

[SouthernEuropean]

The New Acropolis Museum in Athens,you can check anything about it here:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=174734


http://www.skyscrapercity.com/images/headers/4.jpg

[rbrasem]

Click here (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/arts/design/01whit.html?ref=design) for the artcile on the possible move for the Whitney Museum of Art, and here are the renderings.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/04/30/arts/renzoslide1.jpg
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/04/30/arts/renzoslide2.jpg
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/04/30/arts/Renzoslide3.jpg
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/04/30/arts/renzoslide4.jpg

It really looks like Piano is copying Van Egeraats design for the Groninger Forum competition. Check out this 'coincidence':

http://www.eea-architects.com/projects/file_aq310_N28.jpg

[Rebasepoiss]

Estonian Art Museum or KUMU in Tallinn:Pics are from flickr.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2391/2188339948_37e033499d.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2324/1915229912_8f01e29e59.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/89/257136606_fc054f2496.jpg