Tommy Hayfield's Top 10 Museum Stories

Since I started writing for the Yahoo Contributor Network I've done a ton of museum stories from Richmond, Virginia to Washington, DC to New York and out West to California and Los Angeles and their abundance of great museums. To be accurate these are not stories but reviews since they're not one-time static moments or a routine one-day news story. These museums are, of course, stories every day. Here are the museums I've looked into, categorized by state.

New York
New York has big museums with a lot of cachet which New York likes because of its reputation for "big" things in general. It's the Big Apple after all. You have the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art. These are among the biggest tourist attractions in the world as far as museums go. The city of Paris in France and London, England are the only rivals to the dynamic duo of museums that New York has to offer.

Also in New York in Manhattan is the Children's Museum of Manhattan...check out this museum review as well if you plan on visiting Manhattan with the kids.

Washington, DC
Washington, DC has some great museums which include many Smithsonian Museums near the Capitol. The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History is one I've been to. The National Gallery of Art is a publicly funded museum which is free to visit. Check out these reviews which bring you closer for a moment so you can see the story these museums tell.

California
California is a huge state which has some museums which many people see through the eyes of that vast distance that the state covers. The theme of vast spaces is one many Americans attach to easily. There are as many happy thoughts and themes in California's museums as there are people. Memories of the trek across the country in the early 19th century inspire many visitors adults included. Los Angeles has the Grammy Museum which is fairly new and it's worthy of a closer look. The Charles Schulz Museum and Research Center is a favorite of kids and grownup kids as well. This is the museum of Snoopy as I like to call it. California also has the Getty Museum which is an amazing museum with two locations. Los Angeles's Museum of Contemporary Art is an homage to modern art as the name implies. It's a different feel than the Getty Museums.

Upstate New York
Upstate New York has a few museums in Cooperstown not associated with baseball. Those museums are the Fenimore Art Museum and the Farmer's Museum. These two museums are in the same small town as the baseball museum...all three of these museums can be visited at a discount with a multi-venue ticket purchased at any of the three.

Indiana
Indianapolis has the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. It's a museum for kids as the name implies and this story is helpful if you think you'll be passing through Indianapolis and the kids want to go somewhere fun.

Virginia
Virginia's capital city has several fine museums one of which is the Children's Museum of Richmond...right next door to it is the Science Museum of Virginia. The Science Museum of Virginia has a fabulous IMAX movie theater that is a lot of fun to see movies on.

Check out these hyper-linked reviews below to see what there is in these museums worth visiting. Many people will find something worth looking into after reading the reviews.

Resources:
Tommy Hayfield's Profile Page
Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
The Getty Museum
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
Enjoy the Grammy Museum
Charles Schulz Museum and Research Center
Children's Museum of Indianapolis
National Portrait Gallery
Museum of Modern Art
Visit the Hammer Museum
Fenimore Art Museum
Children's Museum of Manhattan
Science Museum of Virginia
Farmers' Museum
National Gallery of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Richmond Children's Museum