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I'll get the conversation started! As for one of my favorite museums . . . it may be an obvious choice, but I honestly can't choose anything other than my unofficial home for five years . . . The Louvre. I've certainly spent more time there than any other museum. I feel like I basically lived there from about 2000-2005. And I even wrote an article about it here: https://epicureanvagabonds.substack.com/p/pagan-in-paris-a-pagan-guide-to-the

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It's undeniably one of the most impressive museums in the world and you can visit The Louvre over and over and over again and you'll always find something you've never seen.

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Loved this article, Ryan! What a wonderful way to spend half a decade!

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Thank you so much! The Louvre is a sacred and weirdly personal place to me. Definitely a museum that changed my life.

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One of my favorite museums is a little gem on the Costa Brava in Sitges, Spain - The Museu del Cau Ferrat (https://museusdesitges.cat/ca/museu/cau-ferrat/museu-del-cau-ferrat).

It was the home and studio of the phenomenal artist Santiago Rusiñol. Our visit there absolutely changed my life. To read more about it, check out my article, Déjà vu at Cau Ferrat.

https://epicureanvagabonds.substack.com/p/deja-vu-at-cau-ferrat

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What an experience that was! I've never seen you react to a place like that before or since. You definitely had a history there.

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One of my very favorite museums is “Jeu du Paume” in Paris

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Oh, the Jeu de Paume is a great museum! Such a little gem in the heart of Paris. Thank you for that recommendation!

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I loved hearing about the Jewish kitchen in Rome. I’ve never been to that part of Rome. Wish I was going with you and the ladies in three weeks.!

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Alan took us there last year and we fell in love! Felt right at home eating fried artichokes under the Portico!

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Those drinks look tantalizing. I love your unique categorical on a balanced diet!

I haven't been to the museum in France. In Los Angeles, The Norton Simon, where I saw the Tut exhibit and have been cursed ever since 1978. MOMA.

I have to say the Dali Theater and Museum in Figueres, Spain. It's an interactive experience about perspective. Things arranged apart in such a way in a large room as that they make no sense. But from a distance, form a fully detailed face with distinguishable features, and this is only one piece. The face of Marlyn Monroe.

Dalì, is actually buried under the stage.

The second, would have to be The British Museum, in Cairo Egypt. Why? Because that's where I saw the actual Stelé of Revealing, the principle object of worship in Thelema, founded by Aleister Crowley. Guess what? It's made out of stucco! It's colors are vivid. I was there with my first girlfriend who had seen it in our apartment but never really studied it. When we arrived, the museum was multi-story, huge. I had a hard time finding it. Within 20 minutes, Bonnie came to me (she embodied chaos-in endearment), which was how she found it within 15 minutes after arriving! I was shocked because there were so many stele from different dynasties nestled in among statues and other things. It was uncanny how she led me straight to it, as I had no picture with me. It still had it's original "666" catalogue number from the Boulak museum, with a newer one affixed off to the side of the old one. We didn't have an expensive camera, only those Kodak "whore-cams" that you shoot off and save for later for developing. So- Dalí and The British Museum.

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I'd love to go to the British Museum in Cairo someday! And I couldn't agree more about the Dali Museum in Figueres - one of the greatest museums in the world. The museum itself is a work of art from the master himself! And yes, the Mae West room is mind-blowing! So is the Abraham Lincoln painting. Brilliant recommendations!

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Mae West!!! Yes, not Monroe.

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I'm currently in the middle of season 1 of Foundation--WOW!

One of my favorite museums is the Musee de Orangerie in Paris known for it's impressionist & post-impressionist paintings such as Monet's Water Lilies. And one of my favorite exhibits at the museum was a wonderful collection of artist Marie Laurencin's paintings.

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Fantastic choice! The Orangerie is another personal favorite. And Marie Laurencin's paintings are exquisite.

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