rep your local museum experience
edith head
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my favorite local museum is the de Youngit's in golden gate park
it has this awesome observation tower
for overlooking golden gate park
there's a giant Olmec head
and some other awesome stuff
and a really nice chicano exhibit that i wasn't allowed to take pictures ini wish we had a museum here that housed knight armor and weapons from the middle ages and/or a natural history one with crazy insects. 
chicago and new york are lucky
it has this awesome observation towerfor overlooking golden gate parkthere's a giant Olmec headand some other awesome stuff and a really nice chicano exhibit that i wasn't allowed to take pictures ini wish we had a museum here that housed knight armor and weapons from the middle ages and/or a natural history one with crazy insects. chicago and new york are lucky
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we just saw the most amazing local show of retarded people art. It was un-fucking-real. there was a painting of (a black) van gogh with Gladys Knight that I think will forever set the bar as far as art goes, as far as I'm concerned , from now on. but I guess that was technically a gallery, not a museam.
the new ghetty fucking sucks!
-extremely small sculptures of random things (disney characters, famous people) done in the eye of a needle.
-extremely small collages done with the segments of butterfly wings
-small scale models of trailor parks
-randomly spinning bells
-long hallways with random sounds playing from hidden speakers and buttons on the wall that, if pressed, spray different smells (cinnamon, perfume, vanilla, all smell like they're wayyyyyy past being expiration dates for freshness)
-various old remedies to certain ailments
-and other stuff too, the lights are way dim throughout and I got lost about a million times.
-the second story is a russian tea house that plays old grainy black and white russian propaganda movies in a dark theatre.
If you go, you'll have about 30 serious WTF???? moments.
there's a great book about it. I've not been, but I might have ta when I'm in LA next month.
http://www.starks.com/aboutus_thevacuummuseum.php
Worth pulling over and getting out of the car.
I used to live just around the corner from that place. Would pass it on the way to my walk to In-N-Out Burger and ponder the potential meaning of Jurassic Technology, until I finally had to go inside. Yeah, herb can be key.
The last museum I went to was the Met in NYC for the Van Gogh sketches exhibit. That was pretty great. My favorite permanent exhibit at that museum, aside from the armor mentioned above (I especially like the swords and knives, being a chef), is actually the furniture. The woodwork and craftsmanship is sublime. So is their AC on a sweltering summer day.
I haven't been to that museum in SF, but should plan to go, now that I'm an hour outside the Bay.
When I live in Rome I wondered into a similar type of show in the middle of a little square. It was one of the coolest art shows I have ever seen. Some really wild stuff and a lot of really proud parents and kids.
Ms Damn if you want to see armor and what not the philadelphia art museum has a nice collection, but I am sure there is something one the west coast with the same type of stuff.
I do miss the philadelphia art museum, the Virgnia Museum of Fine Art is alright, but it doesn't have the you can get lost in there vibe of the philly museum.
I like the building itself.
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+ local womens college's galleries