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[Warren]

So over the weekend my wife and I took one of our roommates (the art student) to a museum.

It was a modern/installation art museum called The Mattress Factory that I haven't been to in about 15 years. And it was as inspirational for our roommie as I'd hoped.

What and when was the last museum you visited? Was is for art? Dinosaurs? Quilts?

Do you often visit for inspiration?

Discuss.

[Laemkral]

This is a very good question! I am not exactly sure what would be the last museum I visited. When I travel I tend to visit a lot of historic type stuff, but as to what exactly constitutes a museum....hmmm...


The most recent place that was definitely labeled a museum would have been in London I believe, and it would have been a museum on the history of London. Very fascinating stuff, and I was really interested in the military stuff (of course).

I tend to go to historical museums, though I don't mind an afternoon in an art museum if I have time to spare and be intellectual and whatnot. I actually get more inspired by castles and buildings than museums, as it's the setting from which I derive my stories.

[Mo]

Nice topic!

Last museum visit was for my boyfriend's benefit rather than my own, we went to the Explosion! museum in Gosport/Portsmouth on his birthday. He is a naval history geek.

Other than that I tend to go to art museums, if any. To be honest I find myself more interested in art exhibitions, rather than museums, generally speaking. I don't attend that many though; I am personally more inspired by spending time out in nature, or by everyday situations or watching people in the city, rather than by looking at inanimate objects at a museum/exhibition.

[McDuffies]

I went to dozen exibitions for a Night of Museums, some were paintings, others old photographs, one dedicated to discovery of DNA, etc. I do take inspiration from paintings, but usually from art books from my shelf.

[Ti-Phil]

Last one I went was the "Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal". Quite a few nice exhibit, especially like the one replicating a snow storm live size where the public walks throught it.

[MariaAndMichelle]

The last museum we went to was the Museum of Sex. It was a few years ago now, and the exhibit at the time was about Kinks. We had gone as part of an Anthropology Club field trip in college.

Apropos of the forums, though, the current exhibit is about comics! What do you know!

EDIT: Oh, no, sorry. It's not the current one. It was just recently, though! (The actual current one is called "Obscene Diary," about gay folks before Stonewall.)

[McDuffies]

and the exhibit at the time was about Kinks.

That must have been great, they're my favourite 60ies band.

[Turi]

The Body Worlds exhibition at the Danish Experimentarium. Didn't have nearly the amount of information I expected. Just general info about body parts, not descriptions of what we actually see. Frustrating as Hell. I could have read (and have) most of that in an anatomical lexicon. Now there is an excellent opportunity to go in detail, and the exhibition seems afraid to do so. There were small markers to points of interest, and they weren't explained! Grr.

[VeryCuddlyCornpone]

I haven't been to a museum since before I started college The last one I went to must have been the art museum in the town right next to mine.

My heart aches to return to the Museum of Natural History again, but I have a friend who also wants to go and we need to set up a time to make this into an outing.

EDITED BECAUSE I KNEW I WAS MISSING SOMETHING! I went to the Philadelphia Museum of Art? Art Museum? Something? two autumns ago. I forget what was on display at the time though, I think I'm getting that museum mixed up with one that I visited senior year of high school. I know there was a neat dress exhibit though showing changes in fashion over a certain time period.

[Warren]

...Body Worlds...

I saw that (or something very similar) when I was in NYC a few years ago for training. It was pretty wild.

I preferred the MOMA, though. The bodies thing just went on for quite a while.

Don't remember going to any other museums there beyond that. I really need to get back there for a few other museums.

If you get to Pittsburgh, make sure to check out the Toonseum. Small, but the price is right. And they have an original frame of Gertie.