Oh my gosh hi!! What kind of museum do you work in?
I wanna go to more museums because I haven’t been since I was a little kid, but I don’t like going places by myself and I live in the middle of nowhere so it’s really far to get anywhere. I’m based in the US so if you have any recommendations on like must visit places lmk!!
I love learning so I spend a lot of time in libraries, but museums are so cool and just wells of knowledge
Sorry read your bio and that’s like the first thing I saw and had to freak out about it in your asks for a minute <3
I love talking about museums and libraries so love this!!!!
Ive been in historic house museums for the past 4 years and I worked in special collections in undergrad. My last house we focused on a lot of aspects of it, but primarily the family who lived there, but my current house is very architecture forward which I do not care about in the least. But gotta give tours so we care about what we must.
My biggest museum advice is to not underestimate the little places. Everyone always recommends the really big nice places and they usually are very big and nice, but those little historic houses or small subject specific museums really will surprise you.
I'm Midwest based so most of my recs are there (im a bit of a plane hater tbh):
Chicago's field has a messy past (and also present if we're being so real and true) but their collections are wild lots of taxidermy
I went to the Inuit in Chicago recently - all outsider art, very cool
SLAM in St. Louis - small enough city that you aren't overcrowded, but world class collections (also free and next to the stl zoo which is free and also very very nice)
Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta - very good Muppets collection and they had a room space for current artist exhibition - I can't remember the specifics of what was running when I was there, but it ruled
Tenement Museum in NYC, I really wish I could have stayed longer - they have like a bunch of units set to different periods and talk through a lot of different histories; very unique set up
Oh Finster's Garden outside Atlanta - more outsider art - honestly almost more of an experience tbh, fun to walk through
And this one is really more an experience than a museum, but House on the Rock in Spring Green, Wisconsin I can't explain this but like its wild look it up - also right next to taleisin if you're into frank lloyd wright - I haven't been bc expensive but I've heard good things.
So I had to deal with this personally, things really can be more fun with other people, but get used to taking yourself out! It sucks at first and can be scary, but missing out on stuff because you couldn't find someone to go with you sucks worse! And theres so many concerts, museums, shows, and various events that I've been to solo that I never would have gone too if I hadn't decided to take myself out. And its so funny because everytime someone is like oh its so brave to come alone, but I'd rather come alone than not come at all and getting used to going solo has really helped me expand my horizons and become more confident with myself.
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