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Originally Posted by montréaliste
You may be right if you look at it through the “big lens”, but a lot of the really good museums that are either popular or respected by art aficionados tend to be smaller. The Morgan Library in NYC is one of those specialty museums that are overlooked unless you are interested in the art of drawing and printmaking, not to mention rare books. The shows are always outstanding and display the depth of historical collections found in a city like New York.
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Sure, but then you are getting into very specific, and sometimes single-artist / single-genre museums.
These smaller, specialty museums are often wonderful, but trying to compare them to a large comprehensive art museum with tens of thousands of pieces in their collection, plus national and international traveling exhibits, and attempt to say the smaller museum is "better" is ludicrous. You can't really compare them.
For instance, I really like the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and the Frick Art Museum in Pittsburgh, and the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia... but I would never try to claim that they were better or worse than the Carnegie or the PMA. It wouldn't make any sense.