Galleries of note

Did I ever tell you I like art?
..In its many shapes and forms…must have mentioned it at some point..?
Yes… ex frustrated artist that’s me a lady with many a strange talent… who changed her life canvas to herself for a more fulfilling and less perturbed life.
But doesn’t mean I don’t like to lurk in dusty museums every now and then and have a good old purve at others artistic merits.
While dashing around the globe there is no better place for me to slink off to gather my thoughts.

Some of my favorites below..just in case the fancy takes you too!
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-London-

British Museum
Free to the world since 1753!
The British Museum with a modern make-over and great glass atrium houses one of the greatest collections of human cultural history..well so we like to think.It is London’s main museum for the public and much loved it is too.*Great for a rainy day walk around.

V& A:Victoria & Albert Museum
Free
Tickets for new exibits
From its beginnings as a building to house a small collection of objects bought by the government from the Great Exhibition of 1851, the V&A has grown into the national museum of art and design.

Tate & Tate modern
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Tate Britain: The national gallery of British art from 1500 to 2006
Tate Modern: A major gallery of modern and contemporary art

Saatchi Gallery
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Moved so much in the past few years and now is moving to the Duke of York’s HQ in Chelsea .Has the majority of the best up and coming modern art in the UK
The Saatchi Gallery has always aimed to provide an innovative forum for contemporary art, presenting work by largely unseen young artists or by established international artists whose work has been rarely or never exhibited in the UK.

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-Venice-

The Peggy Guggenheim-Venice
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection
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My favourite mid modern museum of all
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is the most important museum in Italy for European and American art of the first half of the 20th century. It is located in Peggy Guggenheim’s former home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal in Venice.
Opened in 1951 by the niece of Solomon R Guggenheim, wealthy American industrialist and art collector, the museum presents Peggy Guggenheim’s personal collection of 20th century art, masterpieces from the Gianni Mattioli collection, the Nasher Sculpture Garden, as well as temporary exhibitions.

Doges Palace
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Initially built as castle in the ninth century, was transformed under the dogeate of Sebastiano Ziani (1172-78) as dogal residence that also welcomed the Major and Minor Council and some offices of the magistracy. During the first years of 1300 it was enlarged and the works lasted until the 1463; the building, originally of Byzantine style. Houses some of the best ceiling paintings and Italian old art I have seen yet
*If you get neck ache easily best to lie on the floor and look up at the painted ceilings.

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-New York-

MET: Metropolitan museum of art
Suggested Ticket price
The Metropolitan is a collection of museums, each deserving of many repeated visits. It is a vast storehouse of knowledge, where works of art are held for reference as well as for display; its collections are meant to be consulted as one chooses from a long menu. Indeed, the strength of the Met is that all under one roof it provides an almost infinite number of options for many rich and rewarding visits.

MAMOMA: Museum of modern art
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Founded in 1929 as an educational institution, The Museum of Modern Art is dedicated to being the foremost museum of modern art in the world. Good Re vamp of the building recently is worth an afternoon rambling about.

******New York the MOMA March 07:
New shining edifice crammed full of exploding colour, some eye openers if you take a closer look at some pieces that can be over looked. Art to inspire and think how in the world did they do that ..kind of art that you are enthralled to get up and personal with to find out ,only to be thwarted by a big guard with a walkie talkie and told to back off and not touch..not that I would but if you don’t want the public pawing your goods you should at least put up a barrier.

NY Museum of sex
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The Museum of Sex opened its doors October 5, 2002 on Fifth Avenue at 27th Street with its inaugural award-winning exhibition, NYCSEX: How New York Changed Sex in America. Thus far, the Museum has shown seven exhibitions and three online interactive web projects.
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-Paris-

The Louvre
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From its beginnings as a royal fortress to the public institution we see today, the Musée du Louvre is home to some of the worlds most famous art acquisitions.In who’s corridors and grand rooms you can spend days getting perfectly & delightfully lost.

***** Paris the Louvre February 07
What is there not to love about the Louvre.. OK apart from the annoying tourists that swarm around the little Mona lisa and ignore the other huge displays of graceful colour that adorn the surrounding walls…As lost as always and found myself in an Italian sculptural hall?..(I get so lost in the Louvre I dont know where I am most of the time) Lots of ladies losing there modesty and a frolicking three graces purveying the scene…

The young reclining figure at first glance to your left as you walk in, looks just the same if not more finely defined than the figures of grandeur that surround the sprawled form.To which you are forgiven to think is a young maid at rest… till you round on her only to find her other hidden talent makes her not what she seems! You would think the title Hermaphrodite would give it away… but the small card so low down is normally missed by all who pass the reclining nude …
The shocked visitors make me smile more than the nude..

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List of Sex museums around the world coming soon!