Culture type
The Purist
One room. Two hours. No audio guide.
You would rather see one thing properly than nine things badly, you sit down in front of paintings and you have walked out of exhibitions that were too crowded to look at. People find you exhausting and then adopt your method.
Your evening
A recital in a small hall, then dinner where you can talk about it.
Your room
If you only book one thing this year, make it Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris: two oval rooms built to Monet's specification to hold the Water Lilies.
Your cities
Three cities for this type
Your rooms
Five bookings for this type
MuseumParis · Tuileries
Musée de l'Orangerie
Two oval rooms built to Monet's specification to hold the Water Lilies
MuseumVenice · Dorsoduro
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
An unfinished palace on the Grand Canal, holding the collection she assembled in one extraordinary decade
MuseumIconCopenhagen · Humlebæk
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
A low modernist museum threaded through a sculpture park above the sound to Sweden
MuseumFree hoursLisbon · Avenidas Novas
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian
One oil magnate's collection, from Egyptian bronzes to Lalique, in its own garden
GalleryVienna · Karlsplatz
Secession
A white cube with a golden dome, built in 1898 by artists who walked out of the academy