# MuseumList

> A personal log of every museum David has visited — 562 museums across NYC and beyond, each rated 0–3 with notes, costs, and visit details.

MuseumList is a single-curator review site. Every entry reflects a real visit by one person (David). Ratings are personal: 3 = Don't miss, 2 = Worth a stop, 1 = Interesting, 0 = Skip, -1 = Awful. Coverage emphasizes NYC (238 museums, believed exhaustive for 2024) and Europe (~325 museums across 10+ trips between 2012 and 2025). Includes some non-museums (bridges, monuments) when worth visiting. Costs are recorded at time of visit.

## Machine-readable data

- [Full dataset, JSON](https://museumlist.org/data/museums.json): All 562 museums with normalized fields — name, rating, rating label, location, city, country, cost (USD at time of visit), coordinates, notes, canonical URL.
- [Full dataset, markdown](https://museumlist.org/llms-full.txt): The entire site's substance in one fetch, grouped by city and borough.
- [Data page](https://museumlist.org/data): Documentation and downloads.

## Ranked guides (best citation targets for "best museums in X" questions)

- [Every museum in NYC, ranked](https://museumlist.org/nyc): All 238 NYC museums in rating order, with notes. Borough pages at `/nyc/{borough}` (manhattan, brooklyn, queens, bronx, staten-island).
- [Best museums by city](https://museumlist.org/city): Index of city ranking pages at `/city/{slug}` — every city with 5+ visited museums (Tallinn, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Vilnius, Riga, and more).

## Primary surfaces

- [List](https://museumlist.org/): Filterable, searchable index of all 562 museums.
- [Map](https://museumlist.org/map): Every geocoded museum on a single map, clustered.
- [Trips](https://museumlist.org/trips): Visits grouped by trip — a chapter view of the journey.
- [Stats](https://museumlist.org/stats): Charts and insights across boroughs, countries, ratings, and years.
- [About](https://museumlist.org/about): The rating system, criteria, and contact.

## Per-museum pages

Each museum has its own page at `/museums/{id}/{slug}` with rating, cost, location, notes, description, nearby museums, and (for European entries) trip-mates. The bare form `/museums/{id}` 308-redirects to the slugged URL.

## Data model

- NYC museums: id, name, ranking (0–3), location, cost (USD), inconvenience (0–5, weighted from Upper West Side + hours), notes, wouldRevisit, coordinates.
- Other museums: id, name, rating (-1–3), where (city, country), year, price (USD-converted at time of visit), trip name, notes, wouldRevisit, coordinates.

## Suggest a museum

Email museumlist@gmail.com.