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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
Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
There is such a cliche about artists and madness. Perhaps there’s a bit of truth to...
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Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival
A gift to the Nation