If you have followed this blog and me long enough, you will know how much I like going to museums. I am basically a busybody at heart and museums allow me to indulge in this to my heart’s desire.

Museums are also the best place to spend on an experience rather than on material things, which is really more what creates happiness in an individual.

As a proponent of lifelong learning, I find museums to be the best place to learn – about cultures, about aesthetics which inspire and educate an individual.

As someone who loves history, anthropology and sociology, I love museums. I try to bring BB & GG along with me all the time in the hope this love for museums is transferred to them too and I am gratified that this is slowly becoming the truth.

I chanced upon this TripAdvisor list of the best museums to visit and this was the spark of today’s post. This one has the best museums in the world, but you can also check by certain cities and by regions if you want to.

1. Musee d’Orsay Paris, France

2. The National 9/11 Memorial & Museum, New York City, United States of America

3. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, United States of America

4. The British Museum, London, United Kingdom

5. Prado National Museum, Madrid, Spain

6. Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece

7. Louvre Museum, Paris, France

8. The National WWII Museum, New Orleans, United States of America

9. National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City, Mexico

10. War Remnants Museum, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

11. National Gallery, London, United Kingdom

12. Vasa Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

13. Uffizi Galleries, Florence, Italy

14. Rikjmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

15. The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

16. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

17. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States of America

18. Egyptian Museum of Turin, Turin, Italy

19. Museum of New Zealand (Te Papa Tongarewa), Wellington, New Zealand

20. Museo Larco, Lima, Peru

21. Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

22. The Museum of Qin Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses, Xi’an, China

23. Gold Museum (Museo del Oro), Bogota, Colombia

24. Yad Vashem – The World Holocaust Remembrance Center, Jerusalem, Israel

25. Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil