Small(er) museums

[What_Exit]

@Spectre of Pithecanthropus

The Timken Gallery in Balboa Park, San Diego would be a good example of a boutique museum. It’s very small but the collection is of remarkable quality, including a number of paintings by first-rank Renaissance artists, including Murillo, Caravaggio, and Peter Bruegel the Elder. The Timken Bruegel, “The Parable of the Sower”, is one of only 40 known works by Bruegel, and the only one in the U.S. west of the Mississippi. IIRC it’s a private museum not affiliated with the County or City, and oddly enough has very little web presence. If you google it you will find a few mentions of it, but it has no web site which is a shame.

Pretty pathetic of me. I was in San Diego for 3+ years and I was at most of the museums by the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa park.
I definately don’t remember the Timken Gallery.

[Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus]

@jrfranchi

Pretty pathetic of me. I was in San Diego for 3+ years and I was at most of the museums by the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa park.
I definately don’t remember the Timken Gallery.

Don’t beat yourself up about it. I went to college in San Diego, and visited the Park fairly frequently, but I didn’t discover the Timken until my second year. There aren’t a lot of signs, and many people passing by might not realize that it actually is a museum.

[Ranchoth]

There’s the Pacific Coast Air Museum, only a few miles from where I live, at the county airport. Quiet, out of the way little place, can’t be larger than a few of good-sized surburban backyards…

…With 15 jet fighters, and a few other aircraft. Walk right up to 'em, touch 'em, even climb aboard one of them each month.

Hell, that reminds me, the F-14 and F-16 are open this weekend! Gotta run…

[rowrrbazzle]

Loyola University Museum of Art http://www.luc.edu/news/media/releases/luma2.shtml

located on the University’s Water Tower Campus, occupying the main floor (street level), 2nd and 3rd floors of Loyola’s historic Lewis Towers on Chicago’s famous Michigan Avenue, the Magnificent Mile.

LUMA will house the Martin D’Arcy Collection of Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Art. The collection has been on display at Loyola’s Lake Shore Campus for the past 35 years.

The D’Arcy collection is a very nice small collection. I used to visit it when I attended Loyola.

[Rayne_Man]

Not a museum as such, but the smallish sacristy of Toledo cathedral just happens to contain a dozen or more El Grecos, plus works by Titian, Van Dyke and Goya.

[toadspittle]

@Philster

Rodin Museum. Phialdelphia, PA…

http://www.rodinmuseum.org/

My single favorite art museum. Good call.