Anyone else not a museum person?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree OP. Every time I google “things to do with kids in X European city” it’s always 4 museums an aquarium and a zoo. I don’t for the life to me know why I’d travel to Spain to spend the day in an aquarium.

This. So much this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just don't like visiting museums. It can be kind of frustrating when you google "Things to do in X" and the list is mainly museums, especially in European cities, so I typically run out of things to do and it's time to move on to somewhere else. I don't know what it is, maybe it's b/c I grew up in DC and had access to the amazing (and free) museums here that I became museum'd out. I visited Paris earlier this year and didn't bother with the Louvre and I had friends/family act shocked when I told them I didn't see the Mona Lisa. It doesn't interest me and I would rather wander around a new city on foot instead of being bored in a stuffy museum, with stuff I'm ultimately not all that interested in.

I feel like I'm in the minority of this. That said, I still love our Smithsonians and to me, it's just hard to top them -- like other cities have "Air and Space musuems" and "Natural History" museums and I don't bother.

I can understand not liking museums, but not because the Smithsonians are great. Most of them really aren't. They are old school rooms with artifacts.

[Anonymous]

My brother and I were traumatized by museums as kids. On every vacation my mom would find a couple, and we'd go, and spend four hours standing around getting whisper-screamed at to be quiet and not touch anything, and we had to follow her around as she read Every. Single. Artist Statement. It made us both hate museums.

I can now tolerate museum gift shops as good places to get people gifts. My brother has only gone to the Anne Frank museum his entire adult life.