I love museums. I grew up outside of NYC, so my youth was filled with incredible museums. As a kid, the American Museum of Natural History was my favorite, but hands on things like the U.S.S. Intrepid Museum were also a blast. As I got older, art museums became more my thing. The museums in Europe were a huge treat, but there are also some great ones in the states. The Met was always my fave as a teen. I liked visiting The Dali when my parents lived in the St. Pete area. MFAH here also gets some phenomenal traveling exhibits. I love the big grand ones as much as the small and quirky things. Speaking of quirky, I'm pretty bummed that our local Art Car Museum recently closed. We also like small random ones...from things tied to National Parks and Monuments to museum sections in local libraries. Last summer, we were in CO for softball and DD17 and I spent some downtime exploring a Mamie Eisenhower and WWII section in an adjacent library. Oh, and one day I'm going to get back to Europe...as I've got some unfinished business in Florence. I saw the British Museum, The Louvre, and the Vatican Museums...but our schedule was too tight to get into the Uffizi.