Anyone else hate museums?

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I just got back from one of my favorite museums: The Field Museum.

Today, I visited the Portland Art Museum.

Here is the link:

http://portlandartmuseum.org/

I love museums and exhibitions. The most interesting and controversial one I've been to so far was The Bodies Exhibit. It displayed plastinated human bodies and body parts. According to the people in charge of it, the bodies were unclaimed and from China. Unfortunately, I later found out that they may actually be the bodies of executed Chinese prisoners and that the methods of obtaining them were questionable. At least this was back when I was naive about China's human rights violations.

There is also a local museum that I occasionally visit. It's main focus is my city's history, and entering it is free of charge. It has a wooden boat full of colorful blown glass that I could stare at for hours.

I love learning new things especially if they have sections that invove my special intrests. If they have something I like good luck getting me out.

I have visited many museums and enjoy them. The possible issues referred to in the original post would not have to be for every museum. Museums help educate the people who visit them. They help preserve artifacts which might otherwise be lost to the public now and in the future. If museums were suddenly eliminated, those artifacts would be available only to one person (the owner) and those few he chose to share them with.

I do agree that many of the artifacts should be returned to their original owners (native people or country) but I would hope that they would choose to display them in their own museums. There have been instances of museums returning artifacts (including artwork) but I don't know how common this is.

Yep, especially art galleries.

I love museums as I love learning about the evolution of the world and man.

Can anyone recommend any particularly good web sites associated with museums?

I really like museums, especially the science one in Manchester.
2 years ago I went to the "body worlds" exhibit, I really enjoyed that one. My favourite part of that was the foetuses growing from embryo all the way to almost newborn, I know they were real but it didn't creep me out at all. That one wasn't the "bodies: the exhibition", which was mentioned earlier in the thread. In the one I saw these people had already signed an agreement to let their bodies be used for science when they died, and the families of the deceased would have agreed to it too. I'd go there again if they were doing an exhibition in a nearby museum.

I love museums. They're quiet and always leave me inspired. I understand why they need to charge us, to keep the exhibited objects intact. I am also aware of the fact, that many of the objects are stolen, but hey - if it hadn't been stolen I would probably never have seen it.