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The latest Budget Travel article features the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. You don't have to be an art historian or have studied art appreciation for years to enjoy the art work in this gallery. What other art museums would you recommend as being fun for anyone who simply wants to look at intriguing art?

The Detroit Insitute of Arts in Detroit, Michigan is a fine museum. The MOMA in New York City is fun, too.




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The Chicago Art Institute is free on Tuesdays (speaking of budget travel) and has a mouth watering collection of Impressionist paintings, many of them familiar old favorites. Lots else too.

The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art in Las Vegas is exceptional! It is located inside the Bellagio hotel. I visited there during the summer of 2005 and the exhibitions included: Corot, van Gogh, Monet, Renoir and more.

I've always wanted to visit the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art. One day.....

The Bob Jones Museum and Gallery in Greenville, SC has a large array of religious themed art that is quite impressive. It's free on Sundays. Watch for an article about the museum later on in the year.

The Smithsonians in DC are free. They include The National Gallery of Art which is always a crowd pleaser and the Hirshorn, a modern art gallery that is weighted more towards mid rather than late twentieth century.

Also includes the Freer and Sackler Galleries of Asian arts.

If you love Vincent van Gogh then visit the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. 19 works of van Gogh are located there.

Or try the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia. It features a 9 paintings of van Gogh

Enjoy!!!

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I second the recommendation for the Art Institute of Chicago. I am certainly no art expert, but I just love to look at Impressionists' work and there are so many extraordinary examples of these at that museum! I did not have *nearly* enough time there to enjoy it all. Plus there is the Thorne Miniatures room, the room with all the ancient weaponry, etc. Excellent art museum.

Here here! If you're around North Texas, I would recommend Fort Worth's Museum of Modern art and Dallas' Nasher Museum of Sculpture.