WTF? "Naval fucking history" are the museums I beeline towards wherever I am. I now hate you with a passion and will make sure that you walk the plank first if I ever capture your crew. And I will. You won't escape me : oceans are rising.
Now, the most recent museum I visited was the
Leman museum in Nyon and it was great, because the Leman is great, and because the
Piccard are insane (a floor is dedicated to this family and their exploration vehicles). And because the Leman is
insane aswell.
The most impressive museum, was, surprisingly, the
Chaplin Museum in Vevey. Went with zero expectation, was completely stunned. The one place to see in Switzerland, I say.
My most beloved museum is the
Cinema and Miniatures museum, in Lyon. Two parts. One is cinema props and is awesome on many levels. The other is just about miniatures, the art of tiny things, and includes a lot of impressively detailed dioramas made for the sake of it (dioramas made for movie scenes provide the missing link between the museum's two themes). I re-visit it roughly every two years.
The coolest museum was the
MEN, the Neuchâtel Ethnography Museum, but I haven't gone back for a while, and its greatness came from its clevel, inventive and thought-provoking temporary exhibitions, colliding cultures from all over the world. But these temporary exhibitions are relatively blink-and-miss, so, sadly impossible to share when they're over.
A very precious one to me is the SS Arthur M. Huddell, renamed Hellas Liberty when it was made a floating museum in Piraeus. It's one of the three last remaining Liberty Ships, and just for that is worth visiting. But its website has been turned into a casino advertisement because, well, Greece.
