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Museums Galore….

I saw an article this morning on my Google page that listed the best museum cities in the world, starting with Paris, Madrid, London and New York. Washington was not on the list, and frankly I don’t understand that.

Just off the top of my head, Washington has the following first class art museums:

  1. National Gallery of Art
  2. National Portrait Gallery
  3. Smithsonian American Art Gallery
  4. Phillips Collection
  5. Renwick Gallery
  6. Hirshhorn Museum
  7. Kreeger Museum
  8. Hillwood Museum
  9. Art Museum of the Americas
  10. Rubell Museum
  11. Glenstone Museum
  12. National Museum of Women in the Arts
  13. Smithsonian Museum of Asian Art
  14. Smithsonian Museum of African Art
  15. Freer Gallery
  16. Katzen City American University Museum

Then there are the history museums:

  1. National Museum of African American History
  2. Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
  3. Smithsonian Museum of American History
  4. Capital Jewish Museum
  5. Spy Museum
  6. National Museum of the American Indian
  7. National Air and Space Museum (two locations)
  8. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  9. Museum of the Bible
  10. National Building Museum
  11. National Postal Museum
  12. National Archives
  13. Library of Congress
  14. Children’s Museum
  15. Planet Word
  16. DAR Museum
  17. Dumbarton Oaks Museum
  18. National Geographic Museum (about to reopen after renovation)
  19. George Washington U. Textile Museum
  20. National Law Enforcement Museum
  21. The Society of Cincinnati Museum
  22. Jewish War Veterans Museum
  23. Navy Memorial Museum

And there are those that I have forgotten about, and many more smaller ones that I have not mentioned.

Have I visited all of these? No, but I should. Would a visit to each of these make a good series for Artis80.blog? Yes. Is such a series likely. Not really. Too bad.

Will watch the Nats game on TV this afternoon as they try for a sweep in San Francisco. The Nats, predicted to lose 100 games this season, now stand at at 35-33. We have tickets for Saturday’s game.

Trying hard to avoid you-know-who this week. And why isn’t it you-know-whom, anyway? But…..

If you-know-whom has his way, there will be, if nkt another museum, a new site/sight to behold as you cross the river heading to Arlington Cemetery. Here it is (hold your nose!):

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