Maybe one day, I will make a longer feature/page out of this or something, we’ll see. Here, we have a rough estimate of how much time I took to go through museums or exhibitions. Feel free to help my memory if you do not agree with this data at all (^.~ )
Paris
Louvre: 10 hours
Musée d’Orsay: 3-4 hours
Centre Pompidou: 3 hours
Panthéon: 15-30 minutes
Maison Victor Hugo: 15-30 minutes
Musée Picasso: 1.5-2 hours
Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie: 2 hours
Musée du Quai Branly: 1-1.5 hours
Palais de Tokyo: 1.5 hours
Ste-Chapelle: 15-30 minutes
Conciergerie: waste of time, but about 30 minutes
Grand Palais: 2-3 hours, depending on the exhibition
Musée Carnavalet: 2 hours
Espace Salvador Dalí: 1 hour
Orangerie: 1 hour
Musée Guimet des Arts Asiatiques: 3 hours
Musée des Arts et Métiers: 2 hours
Musée National de l’Histoire naturelle – Grande Galerie de l’Évolution: 2 hours
Musée National de l’Histoire naturelle – Galerie de Minéralogie et de Géologie: 1 hour
Basilique de St-Denis: 30 minutes
Musée de la Vie Romantique: 15 minutes
Musée de l’Érotisme: 3 hours
Jeu de Paume: 3 hours depending on exhibition
Invalides – Tombe de Napoléon: 30 minutes incl. audioguide tour
Invalides – Musées: 2 hours
Musée National du Moyen-Age/de Cluny: 1 hour
Musée Rodin: 2 hours
Musée de l’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris: 1 hour
Petit Palais: 2 hour
Musée de l’Homme: 2 hours
Madrid
Prado: 4 hours
Thyssen: 3 hours
London
British Museum: 3 hours
National Gallery: 4 hours
Madame Tussaud’s: 3 hours
Cairo
Egyptian Museum: 1 1/2 hours
Berlin
Technikmuseum: 5 hours
Jüdisches Museum: 2 hours
Neue Nationalgalerie: 1 1/2 – 2 hours, depending on the exhibition
Pergamonmuseum: 2 1/2 hours
Altes Museum: 45 minutes
Alte Nationalgalerie: 1 1/2 hours
Bauhaus-Archiv: 1 hour
Gemäldegalerie: 3 hours
Holocaust-Mahnmal: 1 hour
In conclusion, you can easily see that Paris made a museum person out of me and now I am planning to see many, many more. I’m slowly trying to think of other museums I have been to rather recently and will add them to the post…