I’m sure we’ve had this thread before but whatever
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Can’t decide between Pitt Rivers in Oxford (fuckloads of cool stolen shit), the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo (genuinely quite magical) and the Peace Museum in Hiroshima (the most singularly depressing place I’ve ever been to, and I’ve been to North Korea, the Killing Fields in Cambodia, Auschwitz and Coventry).
Don’t really like museums in general, they’ve got to go some to keep me interested. I hate standing and reading a wall with a passion.
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Vasa Museum in Stockholm. A massive 17th century boat. It sounds boring but for some reason it’s absolutely amazing?
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As a kid (not been as an adult): National Railway Museum in York. Just this huge building which feels like a train station in itself filled with absolutely loads of cool massive trains (they seem so much bigger when you’re not on a platform). Only it’s the best train station in the world because you get see trains from everywhere. Complete sensory overload in the best possible way.
As an adult: VASA museum in Stockholm (a huge galleon dredged from the bay and plonked in this massive building). Or the Fram museum in Oslo (a huge arctic explorer ship from the 19th century that you can walk around).
Basically I think I love bloody big transport things in big buildings.
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Eureka! The national children’s museum.
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Is London Natural History Museum such a boring answer? Yes. Is it still the best? Absolutely.
For the rock room alone
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Idk. Most museums are really boring or really good but overwhelming and require many visits, which is good if you live near it but not as a tourist.
I loved Liverpool museum so much as a kid but i think its pretty rubbish as an adult, as is Manchester’s (fuming about how crap their “Wild” exhibtion is at the moment).
I tell you what though, i really liked Birmingham - combining it with an art gallery is key (because I saw Rock Drill finally so now all my memories are of it being great even though i have no memory of the museum side of it - plus the kids play area was perfect for my then 2 year old)
I can’t believe I’ve still never been here - I was going to do the sleepover there for m’s birthday last year but she didnt want to 
Worse are videos. No, I’m not watching that here but pls do send me a link to watch it at home.
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I went there a couple of years ago and it is really impressive. It was like a far grander version of the Museum Depot at Acton (which is also great).
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Having the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum and the V&A, all within 5 minutes’ walk of each other, on a donation-only basis, is ridiculous really.
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Ah that’s such a shame that would have been great 
Hit me up if you’re ever down here and want to spend several hours looking at rocks and staring at the flower paintings on the ceiling
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Kennedy Space Center is a bit of a cheat answer, but standing amongst a giant garden of space rockets, or going into a massive hangar that contains the Space Shuttle Atlantis, was pretty awesome. They do the whole theatrical spectacle of it really well, too - you stand in an entrance lobby where they play a film on a floor-to-ceiling projector and then finally unveil it.
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These days I whip round museums and have a quick look then read Wikipedia when I get home. Standing is for chumps
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This thread inspired me to search for Museum Of The Ass, but sadly that doesn’t seem to exist yet
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Vasa
Beamish
Utrecht railway museum
The complex of museums in Ueno Park, Tokyo
And also lots of galleries that call themselves museums:
MoMA
Louisiana
Chichu Art Museum/Lee Ufan Museum/Benesse House
They took all the asses put ‘em in an ass museum
And they charged the people a dollar an’ a half just to see 'em
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Robben Island
Zak Bagans - The Haunted Museum in Vegas.
None of this walking on your own looking at shit bullshit, full on guided tour with hot spooky out of work actors taking you round in groups of 8. Pay extra and you get a RIP experience which gets you a couple of extra rooms, a lanyard and a tshirt
Proper old school haunted house, freak show, weird objects vibe from the 1890s but with a 2025 shine.
You’ve gotta sign a waiver before going in and sit in a cleansing chair when you leave.
Thought it’d be decent and a rip off but it was nearly 4 hours and great
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