Two years ago I set myself the challenge of visiting ’52 Museums in 52 Weeks’. Since then, I’ve not set myself any specific targets, but the habit of keeping a list of museums I’d visited stuck. That’s how I know that in 2013, I managed to visit over 100 museums in 5 different countries! 69 of those were museums I’d visited for the first time, so it was a pretty good year for new discoveries. And some of the museums I visited more than once, so the total count of museum visits was actually 143 – that works out at 2.75 visits per week. Can you tell I like statistics? Here are a few pretty graphs to help sum it all up:
Top 3 Most Visited Museums
- National Museum of Scotland (11 visits) – despite having left Edinburgh over two years ago, this museum still tops my ‘most visited’ list!
- Jüdisches Museum Berlin (8 visits) – for the third year in a row, our neighbours next door shares the top two.
- Deutsches Technikmuseum & Museum für Kommunikation (4 visits each) – #MuseumBaby likes to go where the cars are ;)
And here’s the complete list of museums visited in 2013:
- Deutsches Technikmuseum, Berlin, Germany (Jan, Apr, June, August)
- Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Germany (Jan x2, May x2, July x2, Sept, Dec)
- Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany (Jan, Apr)
- Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, Germany (Jan, Mar, Oct, Dec)
- Deutsches Currywurst Museum, Berlin, Jan (Jan, Aug)
- Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany (Jan, Aug)
- Computerspielemuseum, Berlin, Germany (Jan)*
- Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany (Feb, Mar)
- Buchstabenmuseum, Berlin, Germany (Feb)*
- Berliner Unterwelten, Germany (Feb)*
- Kleines Katzenmuseum, Berlin, Germany (Feb)*
- Rijksmuseum Schiphol, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Feb x2)
- National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh (Feb x6, June x5)
- National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh (Feb)
- Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh (Feb)
- Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh (Feb)
- Museum on the Mound, Edinburgh, Scotland (Feb, June)
- Deutsche Kinemathek: Museum für Film und Fernsehen, Berlin, Germany (Mar)
- Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany (Mar, Nov)
- National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA (Mar)*
- Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA (Mar)
- Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum, Washington DC, USA (Mar)
- Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA
- Smithsonian National Postal Museum, Washington DC, USA
- Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Washington DC, USA
- National Building Museum, Washington DC, USA
- Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington DC, USA
- National US Navy Museum, Washington DC, USA
- National Bonsai & Penjing Museum, Washington DC, USA
- Discovery Creek Children’s Museum, Glen Echo, Maryland, USA
- Smithsonian National Zoo, Washington DC, USA
- Newseum, Washington DC, USA
- Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC, USA
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, USA
- Smithsonian Hirshorn Museum, Washington DC, USA
- Lincoln Memorial & Exhibit, Washington DC, USA
- Kupferstichkabinet, Berlin, Germany
- Kunstbibliothek, Berlin, Germany
- Hanf Museum, Berlin, Germany
- Welt der Miniaturbücher, Berlin, Germany
- Nikolaikirche, Berlin, Germany
- Knoblauchhaus Museum, Berlin, Germany
- Ephraim-Palais, Berlin, Germany
- Domäne Dahlem, Berlin, Germany
- Senf Museum, Bautzen, Germany
- Asisi Panorama “Die Mauer”, Berlin, Germany
- Burrell Collection, Glasgow, Scotland
- Hunterian Zoology Museum, Glasgow, Scotland
- Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, Scotland
- Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
- National Museum of Flight, East Fortune, Scotland
- Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany
- Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité, Berlin, Germany
- Botanischer Garten & Botanisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
- Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg, Germany
- Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
- Deutsches Zollmuseum, Hamburg, Germany
- Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
- Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
- Speicherstadt Museum, Hamburg, Germany
- Spicey’s Gewürzmuseum, Hamburg, Germany
- Internationales Maritimes Museum, Hamburg, Germany
- Prototype Auto Museum, Hamburg, Germany
- Panoptikum, Hamburg, Germany
- Archäologisches Museum/ Helms Museum, Hamburg, Germany
- Ballinstadt Auswanderermuseum, Hamburg, Germany
- Deutsches Zusatzstoffmuseum, Hamburg, Germany
- U-434 Uboot Museum, Hamburg, Germany
- Völkerkunde Museum Hamburg, Germany
- Chocoversum Chocoladenmuseum, Hamburg, Germany
- Schwules Museum, Berlin, Germany
- Skateboard Museum, Berlin, Germany
- Abguss Sammlung Antiker Plastiken, Berlin, Germany
- Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Berlin, Germany
- Museum Berggruen, Berlin, Germany
- Bröhan Museum, Berlin, Germany
- Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany
- Keramik Museum, Berlin, Germany
- Mauermuseum – Museum am Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin Germany
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Tassenmuseum (Museum of Bags & Purses), Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Anne Franke House, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Cheese Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Tulip Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Brilmuseum (Museum of Spectacles), Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Amsterdam Museum, Netherlands
- Katten Kabinet (Cat Museum), Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Pipe Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Riksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Diamant Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Mach Mit Kindermuseum, Berlin, Germany
- Märkisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
- Altes Museum, Berlin, Germany
- Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
- Gipsformerei, Berlin, Germany
- Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
- Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Berlin, Germany
- Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany
- Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Arbejdermuseet, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Post & Tele Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark
My annual ‘Museum Awards’ will be coming soon – though at such a long list it will be difficult to chose favourites! What were your museum highlights of 2013?
January 4, 2014
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