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...how many museums and galleries of the world I've been to?
I'll try to remember to add to this as I go along (and when I inevitably remember more I've been to)

So here goes, off the top of my head:






GB + EIRE:
Natural History Museum (London)
British Museum (London)
Wellcome Collection (London)
National Gallery (London)
Tate Modern (London)
Tate Britain (London)
Museum of London (er...)
Victoria and Albert Museum (London)
Design Museum (London)
Whitechapel Gallery (London)
Science Museum (London)
Viktor Wynd Gallery (London)
Tower of London (er...)
Gordon Museum, Guy's Hospital (London)
Old Operating Theatre and Herb Garret, Guy's Hospital (London)
Florence Nightingale Museum, St Thomas' Hospital (London)
St Bartholomew's Pathology Museum, (London)
Hunterian Collection, Royal College of Surgeons (London)
The Royal London Museum, Royal London Hospital (London)
St George's Pathology Museum, Tooting (London)
Saatchi Gallery (London, when it was on the South Bank)
Kew Gardens (Kew)
Kew Bridge Steam Museum (Kew)
Ashmolean (Oxford)
Pitt Rivers Collection (Oxford)
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Oxford)
University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Cambridge)
University Museum of Zoology (Cambridge)
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences (Cambridge)
Natural History Museum at Tring (Tring)
Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes)
National Museum of Computing (Milton Keynes)
The Manchester Museum (Manchester)
Manchester Town Hall (Manchester)
The Booth Museum (Brighton)
Brighton Royal Pavilion (Brighton)
Brighton Museum and Art Gallery (Brighton)
Scottish National Portrait Gallery (Edinburgh)
Scottish National Gallery (Edinburgh)
Whitby Museum (Whitby)
Natural History Museum, National Museum of Ireland (Dublin)
St Michan's Crypt (Dublin)
M Shed, formerly Bristol Industrial Museum (Bristol)
Bristol Museum and Art Gallery (Bristol)
Blaise Castle (Bristol)
Arnolfini (Bristol)
Leeds City Museum (Leeds)
Mottisfont Abbey (Romsey)
Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum (Salisbury)
Stonehenge Visitor Centre (Salisbury)
Alexander Keillor Museum (Avebury)
Museum of Witchcraft (Boscastle)
Tudor House Museum (Southampton)
Sea City Museum (Southampton)
Southampton City Art Gallery (Southampton)
Maritime Museum (when it was at the Wool House, Southampton)
Bargate Museum (Southampton)
Hawthorns Wildlife Centre (Southampton)
Royal Victoria Military Hospital (Netley, Southampton)
Eastleigh Museum (Eastleigh)
Winchester Cathedral (Winchester)
The Westgate Museum (Winchester)
City Museum (Winchester)
National Railway Museum (York)
Cardiff Castle (Cardiff)
Buckler's Hard (New Forest)
New Forest Centre (Lyndhurst)
Corfe Castle Museum (Corfe Castle)
Swanage Railway Museum (Corfe Castle)
Isle of Wight Studio Glass (Ventnor)
Botanical Gardens (Ventnor)
Ironbridge Gorge Museums (Ironbridge)

FRANCE:
Grande Gallerie de L'Evolution (Paris)
Musee de L'Anatomie Comparee et Paleontologie (Paris)
Catacombes de Paris (Paris)
Musee Galleria (when it was Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris)
Musee du Louvre (Paris)
Musée de la Mode et du Textile (Paris)
Musée des Arts Décoratifs (Paris)
Petit Palais, Musee de Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris (Paris)
Jardin des Plantes (Paris)


BELGIUM:
Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinee (Brussels)
Musee du Costume et de la Dentelle (Brussels)
Musee des Sciences Naturelles (Brussels - this is where the Bernissart iguanadons are, though I think I saw them someplace else at the time - I went here too)
Musee Bruxelloise de la Geuze (Brewery Cantillon - Brussels)
Musee d'Art Ancien (Brussels - good Bosch collection)
Musee Royal de L'Afrique Centrale (in it's previous incarnation as the Imperial Museum of the Congo - Tervuren)

GERMANY:
Museum Fur Naturkunde (Berlin)
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedachtniskirke (Berlin)
Spreewaldmuseum (Lubbenau)

SPAIN:
Sagrada Familia (Barcelona)
Museu de Ciencias Naturales (Barcelona)

CANADA:
Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto)

ITALY:
Museo "La Specola" (Florence, for Susini's anatomical waxes)
Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence)

JAPAN:
Ota Memorial Museum of Art, Ukiyo-E Museum, Shibuya(Tokyo)
Japanese Sword Museum, Shibuya (Tokyo)
Meiji Shrine/Meiji Jingu, Shibuya (Tokyo)
Asukasa Kannon (Kamakura)

POLAND:
Natural History Museum of the Białowieża National Park (Białowieża Forest)



EDIT TO ADD:

Museum of costume and lacemaking, Brussels
Museum of Witchcraft, Boscastle
Museum of Toys, somewhere in cornwall?
Museum of Corfe Castle, Corfe Castle
Berlin Medizinhistorisches Museum, Berlin
Horniman Collection, Forest Hill, London
Natural History Museum of Nantes, Nantes
Ile des Machines, Nantes
Musee des Arts de Nantes, Nantes
Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen
Groeningemuseum, Bruges
Grant Museum of Natural History, UCL, London
Petrie Museum of Egyptology, UCL, London
Foundling Museum, London





and for the record, the wish-list:



Musee Fragonard (Maisons-Alfort)
Musee Orfila (Paris)
Smithsonian Institute (Washington D.C.)
Museo del Prado (Madrid)
State Hermitage Museum (St Petersburg)
Morbid Anatomy Library (San Francisco) - now sadly defunct
National Museum of Nature and Science (Tokyo)
Mutter Museum (Philadelphia)





Where do YOU think I should go?



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