When it gets cool in the fall, or in our case it looks like January this year, and you are looking for something to do, head out to your local museum. AOL has a great piece done by Forbes Traveler, which I have reposted for your enjoyment, on some of the nation's most visited museums. Most everyone has had a school or family trip to Washington D.C. and has seen the National Museum of Natural History, but check out some of these others. It's a great way to pass an afternoon and feel enriched when you're finished.
National Museum of Natural History
Location: Washington, D.C.
Annual Visitors: 5.8 million
Scoop: The National Mall's Museum of Natural History is "dedicated to understanding the natural world and our place in it." In 2006, hordes of others shared that dedication -- free of charge. 5.8 million visitors, the most of any U.S. museum, came to gaze at the museum's more than 125 million natural science specimens and cultural artifacts.
Location: New York
Annual Visitors: 2.22 Million
Scoop: Started in the late 1920s by a trio of philanthropists including Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., the midtown museum now houses more than 150,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design objects. A recent renovation nearly doubled the capacity of the former facility.
Location: Los Angeles
Annual Visitors: 1.3 million
Scoop: The newest Getty Museum, which opened in 1997 on a hilltop in the Santa Monica mountains, draws as much attention for its architecture as the art within. Its sleek off-white buildings, designed by Richard Meier, house European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and European and American photographs.
Location: Chantilly, Va.
Annual Visitors: 1 million
Scoop: Located near Washington Dulles International Airport, this companion museum to the National Mall's Air and Space center is actually larger than the main space in D.C., and displays aircraft on three levels. Highlights include the space shuttle Enterprise and the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay.
Location: Indianapolis
Annual Vistors: 1.2 million
Scoop: This 400,000-square-foot facility proclaims itself the "largest children's museum in the world." It's interactive exhibits include "Dinosphere: Now You're In Their World," a "one-of-a-kind immersive dinosaur experience."
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