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It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!
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This one hung in Goya's dining room. Yum!
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Those who can't do, paint
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Considerable collections
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Emasculates the German government
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Hamartia (n.) - A tragic flaw It's an old Greek word shot into...
Those Swiss have got it all!
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Shades of Black
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An art bromance or something more? Land art celebrity and hippie...
The newest exhibition at the Asian Art Museum advertises itself as an engagement of...
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The lovely people at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco recently invited...
All 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble
Created by Sister Suffragette
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Get Smart! See art!
It's THE Met
MOMA knows everything goes better with Bacon!
Quality, not quantity
Motor city
Good wine and interesting art
Two museums in one
One of the wealthiest museums in America
Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"
Named after a beer maker
Will somebody please think of the children??
Put a bird on it
A taste of Asia in the Tenderloin
Sweet Home Alabama
Cooler than an Orange Julius
In the Athens of Australia
It's free, not cheap
I would walk 500 miles...
It's hammer time
Yee-haw
Probably the first museum to use guns as performance art
This museum is worth A-GO
Just keeps getting bigger
Joe Biden likes to come here (probably)
New Jersey gem
A capital collection in the capital of Ohio
It's pronounced Woo-stah
It's all about that space
Not blan(d) at all
Welcome to the jungle
Mo Money, Mo Museums
Get High on art here
Lots of art in the heartland
Awesome, free, big-city museum
Ironically, the Degenerate Art Show was a wildly popular, and there were lines at...
If you’re getting married and you love art, then you’ve come to the right place....
Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation
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As quickly as it appeared, the Google Arts and Culture app has disappeared from...
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Picture this: the glittering heights of Second Empire France and...
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Only museum to have famous poetry written about it
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USA's very first art school and museum
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Created as part of the New Deal
Enjoy art in an architectural iceburg
One of the oldest public art museums in America
Has a cool grand staircase
Who run the world? Girls!
Brand spankin' new!
Don't get dizzy walking around this circular museum
Has a lot of money to throw around
Abraham Lincoln had his inaugural ball here
Figure out the way to San Jose...ASAP!
Throw another cutting edge exhibit on the barbie...?
2 rich guys, a museum, and a wing place
Happy wife happy life!
Great art in the windy city
Started by a navy man
Everything's bigger in Texas
Possibly haunted
Meet me in St. Louis, Louis!
Fits 423 hospital beds
Art on the walls and in the toilets
The first of its kind
Largest collection of British art outside the UK
When the mistress gets bored, build a museum
Free museums for the win
