I love museums, being near DC gives me great access to many Smithsonian museums which are some of the best in the country IMO.
That's awesome. DC has lots of nice art, natural history, and science museums
Absolutely! Have you ever been to any of them?
Yeah I went to several of them when I visited DC 10 years ago. They do a good job of serving the general public.
I agree. My favorite is the Air and Space museum.
Yes that one was really cool. Have you ever been to the Louvre in Paris or the  Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City?
No but I want to see both someday! I heard the Mona Lisa is on display at the Louvre.
the general public. The goal of serving researchers is increasingly shifting to serving the general public.
There are many types of museums, including art museums, natural history museums, science museums, war museums, and children's museums. Amongst the world's largest and most visited museums are the Louvre in Paris, the National Museum of China in Beijing, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the British Museum and National Gallery in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and Vatican Museums in Vatican City
on committees, such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Anthropological Association, American Ethnological Society, Geographical Society of Philadelphia, and Archaeological Society of North Carolina (honorary). He conducted work for the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.
Collections.
Frank G. Speck collected thousands of Native American objects, along with many reels of audio recordings, reams of transcriptions, and photographs, which have been distributed into multiple museums, most notably the