Going to the museum

I love going to a good museum or exhibit. I love wandering around a quite museum and taking in all the beauty, studying pieces, and in some cases jumping up and down excitedly.
It's been a good year for me and museums, in January I got to see got to see several Carl Bloch originals in an exhibit at the MOA, it was amazing experience and I got to see the exhibit two or three times in the short time it was there.
I've been going to my local museums regularly and enjoying their exhibits and visiting my favorite pieces in their collections.
June was monumental in museum going, I got to go to Italy where I went to the Vatican Museum, the National Museum (ancient Rome, statues etc.), the Academia (where the David lives), the Uffizi, and tons of beautiful churches. The Uffizi is where I was jumping up and down excitedly, I was seeing pieces of art that I'd studied and admired and loved for a long time.
In October I got to have a dream come true, I got to see my art prominently displayed in a museum. It's happened once or twice before but I haven't been able to see it (I'm not counting art centers as museums btw) before. It was so cool and I didn't think to bring my camera and I didn't get a good picture of the piece before so I'll have to share it here, anyway the piece is in the Spiritual and Religious Art Show here.
It's been a good year museum wise and not a bad year art wise.