Museums of Some Interest - North America
Suspecting there are many more than the myArmoury Features lists, & not easily finding via search, I'm hoping this may be a useful idea... We end up with a short thread with a simple list of museums of some interest to myArmoury members. If this exists & I missed it or moderators know this thread is a bad idea feel free to cut off or delete it.

Suggest limiting entries to just 1 line, with at minimum the city & museum name. Leave it up to the potential visitor to research further (google, web site, separate threads, etc.) to decide if its worth their time during a visit to that area (not to mention find out latest - make sure the arms collection is still on display!). This way you are not vouching for the collection vs. their time, just helping (clueless :-) people know the museum exists. (Me too, its why I'm starting it :-)

If this turns out to be useful, perhaps we could start a similar thread for each continent. I'll start this one via 2nd post.

Please add more. Please start separate threads to ask for more info about a museum. Please keep this thread to just the list. Thanks!
Chicago, Illinois, The Art Institute of Chicago, http://www.myArmoury.com/feature_visit_aic.html Display removed?!
Louisville, Kentucky, The Frazier Historical Arms Museum, http://www.myArmoury.com/feature_visit_frazier.html
Minneapolis, Minnesota, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, http://www.myArmoury.com/feature_visit_mia.html
Montgomery, Alabama, The Alabama Department of Archives and History, http://www.myArmoury.com/feature_visit_adah.html
New York City, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Washington, DC, National Museum of the American Indian, http://www.myArmoury.com/feature_visit_nmai.html
Worcester, Massachusetts, Higgins Armory Museum
There is one in Detroit Michigan that is very good. Detroit institute of art? Or some such.

EDIT:
Yep, here it is...
Detroit Institute of the Arts:
http://www.dia.org/

Also the Toledo Museum of Art has *some* stuff. A wide variety, from Ancient Egypt on. But nothing all that substantial in the way of arms and armour.
http://www.toledomuseum.org/


BTW, fine idea here Carl!

Kindest regards,
-Jason


Last edited by Jason Adams on Sun 17 May, 2009 3:43 pm; edited 1 time in total
Cleveland has some nice stuff.

Not a huge collection (substaintial but not huge), some nice pieces and very good variety.

http://www.clevelandart.org/
Ummm... What about Philadelphia, the second best armour collection in the country?

http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/216-427-334.html
The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto is worth a stop. The collection is fairly small, but of quite high quality and considerable breadth.

http://www.myArmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=12694
Oh, how provincial of me. In that case, better include the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta.
http://www.glenbow.org/collections/

They have quite a bit more stuff than their website would lead you to believe, having landed a major East Coast U.S. private collection quite a few years back.
Yes, unfortunately the Art Institute of Chicago has chosen to take the little arms and armour display to the storerooms for the foreseeable future. :mad: :cry:
Please write them letters of disapproval.
A few pieces are shown in the "children's secton", but that's it.
The display was always well attended and liked.
Don't know why they chose to lock it all away.

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