steviedeluxe

Not one gets into the top 20 visited museums in the world. Not even the Prado.

http://skift.com/2013/06/19/the-20-m...s-dc-dominate/

Fredbargate

Maybe it's me but whenever I go into a Spanish museum all I seem to see are booooooring dark drab religious paintings.

Recently visited the Guggenheim, total waste of time for me, the building was interesting but the exhibits rubbish.

There must be others that have historical or engineering artifacts but they seem to evade me.

jackytoo

I thought the Prado was ok. Doesn't compare with the Louvre or National Gallery etc. The Picasso museum in Malaga is overhyped, seen lots of bad reviews too.

steviedeluxe

Apart from the Prado, the one Spanish museum that really made an impact on me was the Columbus museum in Valladolid. A very small place it has to be said, but to see journals from those original crossings in front of oneself was awe-inspiring.
Strange that I rarely go to museums here in London, but I loved the ones in Glasgow.

cricketman

In my opinion, the triplet of the Prado, Thyssen and Reina Sofia are some of the best art museums in the world, although I admit they are very much biased in terms of Spanish art, but there is so much good stuff! We went to all 3 in one weekend and loved it

In terms of other types of museums, I can't think of any important ones. The science museum in Barcelona is pretty good. Of couse, those of us who have lived in London were very spoilt with the excellent free museums, although for art, Madrid rivals or even beats them.

The Guggenheim in Bilbao is terrible, but then so is all late 20thC "art"

The Picasso museum in Málaga is terrible, it mainly contains draft works. The one in Barcelona is better

Countryboy1

We visited the Arts & Sciences Museum in Valencia about 8 years ago. Fabulous building and I can't of course report what it's like now, but at that time it was absolutely pathetic in my opinion. Others may disagree. I won't go in to all that was so bad, but what topped it for us was that some of the 'exhibits' which needed entry were closed for siesta!

me me

I don´t think that is strange at all, you seem to be only interested in what is going on in Spain, especially the trains.

Are you after the job of Fat Controller by any chance?

steviedeluxe

Another personal attack, nothing to do with the thread at all.
Are you incredibly stupid? - Glasgow isn't anywhere near Spain.

chopera

If they did a list of top 20 visited art museums the Prado might get in I guess. Also being so close to two other famous museums probably doesn't help - tourists probably do one or two of the three, but not all of them.

In fact only 2 and a half European countries appear on that list, and it's pretty hard to compete with Paris and London.

chopera

Agree totally

flotsum

I have never been to any art museums but we have been to lots of local museums which have been run by really enthusiastic people who have been welcoming and informative. They have even taken things out of displays so that the children can touch and learn and in the more formal ones we have nearly always been offered translation headsets.

Relampago

I don't know to what extent our museums can be boring or ugly, because I am not animal of museums and because I have not entered in a museum for years. Maybe for some are ugly,but maybe it is because basically what we expose are the things of our country, with better or worse luck ( or simply not well exposed, because we have many artists and a lot of historical monument, maybe we don't know how to sell our patrimony) and not as other museums of other countries (that here people says that are better or more famous that our museums) that simply highlight because their works are the spoliation that they made to other countries, as Egypt, The India, etc

And I don't want to give names....

Relampago

Are museums, Jacky, are not taverns

agoreira

agoreira

Don't be shy, Lampy, but swap those countries for the Americas, Asia etc and you have Archivo de Indias, Casa Lonja de Mercaderes in Sevilla.