We Love Museums

We Love Museums is the result of a life-long love of museums, especially small hidden ones, by Sharon and Rich Roth with considerable contributions from our artist friend, Laurel Thorndike.

We post reviews of museums and often specific exhibits.

The site has a number of hidden features:
1) Muse finder – a database of over 5000 (soon to be 15,000) museums, largely in the US. These are searchable and mappable by name as well as state, city, or zip and local region.

2) wlm@home – a free service that lets you select your favorite artists and send a picture stream to a screen saver or one of many portable devices. Your own changing museum-at-home (or where-ever).

Also, please send us a note if you’d like us to add one of your favorite museums!

Delicate butterflies dance through the air in a flurry of movement and color.With a backdrop of tropical vegetation and flowering plants.Relax while you gaze into a charming Koi pond in the center. Lots of other interesting creatures too, such as birds, frogs and lizards. The Magic Wings Butterfly Museum boast  3,000 different butterflies and moths [...]

We packed a car load of kids and headed to the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, MA. The author and illustrator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. A kid friendly Museum with beautiful illustrations for children and adults alike. With a hands on art studio where kids can create their very own masterpieces. A place where [...]

Both the Met and the Moma (The Metoplitian museum of Art and Muesum of Modern Art for non-new yorkers) are so awesome and yet static that you really only go very rarely UNLESS – they have a special exhibit — and the Met’s exhibit of the Stein’s personal collection (as in Gertrude Stein, and her [...]

Happy Birthday to Mother Ann Lee! Sometime this summer, visit one of the Shaker villages. They are all great outings, and a wonderful look at a piece of American history.

We went to see a very special showing of ” Monet’s Water Lilies an Artists Obsession” at the Wadsworth Atheneum. The show featured nine of the 250 paintings devoted to the water lily theme inspired by Monet’s Japanese style garden located in Giverny, Paris. With those examples you could see Monet’s experimentation with color, form, [...]

The Museum at Smith College began collecting works in 1879 with a focus on American and European art. Acquiring works of quality, while recognizing the instructional value of preparatory studies and unfinished works. The Museum assembled important works of the nineteenth century, including works by Edgar Degas, Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, and others. In the [...]

What makes this museum unique and special is that it is a home. A place that Theodate (the Pope family’s daughter) designed and loved. While the collection of art and artifacts was largely collected by her father Alfred. Some of the paintings were moved in (1950′s) many of them have recently been moved back to [...]

Spending these 2 weeks in Savannah, GA – home of the Telfair Museums as well as a dozen historical homes of late colonial civil war period — it is also home to SCAD – Savannah College of Art and Design. More coming in individual site entries all tagged Savannah-ga A few additional places we found [...]

The Saint-Gaudens Memorial is a private, non-profit corporation chartered by the State of New Hampshire in 1919, to preserve and exhibit Saint-Gaudens’ home and studios. The trustees operated the site as a museum from 1927-1965, when they donated the property to the national Park Service. The Memorial continues to play an important role as a [...]