Posted: 05/04/12 01:39 PM ET  |  Updated: 05/04/12 01:53 PM ET

National Museum Month: What's Your Favorite Museum Or Exhibit? (SLIDESHOW)

May is National Museum Month, a great development for many reasons: Bank of America cardholders finally get to stop cursing faceless corporations and start enjoying BoA's Museums On Us program, a whole new category just opened up for avid e-card scribes ("Ceci N'est Pas Une Card"), and, we here at HuffPost Culture can finally ask our readers the sort of questions that burn inside of us, recovering liberal arts majors that we are.

What's the best museum you've ever been to? How about exhibits? Seen any good ones lately, or even in the far past that we can geek out over?

Since putting out the call via Facebook and Twitter this week, we've already heard about exhibits happening right now that we're dying to see (San Franciscans: get thee to the "creepy" Jean Paul Gaultier exhibit at the de Young!). Some readers ranked long-gone exhibits as their favorites -- the recent Dale Chihuly exhibit at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts came up a few times, and we're sad there's no time machine we can use to visit "Andy Warhol's Cars" at the Guggenheim in 1988.

We've compiled these and more memories in the slideshow below, which we'll be updating with readers' favorite museums and exhibits as they come in. Click through, vote, and please share your personal picks. Tweet us @HuffPostCulture, write on the HuffPost Culture Facebook page, or add images, videos or tweets to the slideshow by searching through the databases or submitting your own below. However you do it, just do it! We'll wait all month long if we have to.

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It's National Museum Month, and we'd love to know your favorite museum or exhibit of all time. Was it science, art, or something in between? Add your personal photos of any museum or exhibit that moved you in the slideshow below, or tell us in the comments!
Past: "Chihuly: Through The Looking Glass" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.
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GaryNOVA
Fear My Micro-bio!!!!!!!!
05:08 PM on 05/07/2012
Green Bay Packer Hall of Fame, Green Bay Wisconsin
04:22 PM on 05/07/2012
Musee d'Orsay in Paris with its amazing collection of impressionist paintings.
Second place: MoMA in New York.
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Annemarie Dooling
HuffPost Community Editor. Loves cats & airports
10:48 AM on 05/07/2012
Brooklyn Museum holds a big space in my heart. It's one of the few institutions that speaks to the new population, but also highlights the accomplishments of the original Brooklynites.
maxfax
Taa - dah!
10:23 PM on 05/05/2012
The Getty in Malibu one of my favorites before the renovation, although the Van Gogh exhibit at the Getty Center was wonderful, it's too busy. The Georgia O'Keefe Museum in Santa Fe another favorite.
10:00 PM on 05/05/2012
I've been lucky to have been to way too many great museums and exhibitions to pick an all-time favorite. But the "Sensations" Saatchi Collection at the Royal Academy in 1997 still really stands out.
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parisnoire
I love my mysterious lady parts...
09:06 PM on 05/05/2012
The first time I walked in the Musee D'Orsay in Paris, it changed my life. One of the first times I have ever been truly speechless.
07:26 PM on 05/05/2012
My favorite exhibition of all time was the Los Angeles County Museums 1991 Degenerate Art Exhibition. This was a reconstruction of the famous 1937 show the Nazis put on to vilify German Expressionism and reunited many of the original paintings from the show.
The effect was clear: Art triumphs over hatred.
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Katherine Guidry
Real Estate Appraiser & Environmental
05:20 PM on 05/05/2012
Bradley Science Museum in Los Alamos, New Mexico

Unser Racing in Albuquerque, New Mexico
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loggerboots
WELL RETIRED UAW.
01:34 PM on 05/05/2012
Van Gogh-Paris
Mapplethorpe-Chicago
Magritte-San Francisco
Chihully-Milwaukee-Venice
Mustard Museum-Mt.Horeb,Wisconsin
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llindqu295
10:33 AM on 05/05/2012
There is a little known museum in Kilgore,Texas.
When you first enter it seems like any other museum.
But then you enter into a room that takes you back in time.
It seems like you are standing in the middle of an old muddy street.
You learn how Texas BarBQ became the huge town picnic.
(The depression was happening at that time.)
The movie about the oil rush is great.
We were amazed at the quality of this place.
It brought so much history to life.

I think it is called the Rangerette Museum but it is SO much more that that!
08:57 AM on 05/05/2012
The William Blake exhibit at the Metropolitan in New York, 2001. This was something I thought I would never see in my life time. It was truly amazing!
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Kate Ragas
What is a micro-bio?
11:01 PM on 05/04/2012
Regrettably, I haven't been to many, but I really enjoyed the Albright Knox in Buffalo.
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bayguy13
10:17 PM on 05/04/2012
The Art of (Louis Comfort) Tiffany at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
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signgrrl
design & production
07:36 PM on 05/06/2012
oh, now i'm jealous !
10:15 PM on 05/04/2012
I know it’s geeky, but the rock exhibit at the Smithsonian museum of natural history is awesome.
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bondcliff
you really don't know me
10:13 PM on 05/04/2012
I love so many museums, that choosing one as a favorite is almost impossible, but the MFA in Boston is definitely at the top, being my local haunt. Attached are some of the photos I've had the pleasure of taking while visiting assorted museums. Of course the photos are only a tease and an in person up close is the only way to truly appreciate great art. http://flic.kr/s/aHsjsQ82Bb