Originally posted by Dma110 Magkelly, you could spend a week there, open to close, and not even scratch the surface of what they have.
Probably I will when I finally go. I tend to have have almost zero interest in almost anything outside of an art museum when I hit a big city actually. I make a point of hitting all the really good ones, and maybe the zoo if they have a good one, but 99% of what thrills most people when they go on vacation just doesn't grab me. I like photographing old architecture and interesting people so I will usually walk around a fair bit doing that but if went to say London? I'd totally skip the Tower, the Crown Jewels, Windsor Castle et all to spend more than half my time in the museums. There's too many good ones there to miss even one, lol.
When I was living in NYC I practically spent every day off I could manage in one museum or another. I'm a total art freak. I finally did get to see the Statue of Liberty before I left and Ellis Island, but that was only after several dozen trips to the Met, the MOMA, the Jewish Museum, et all. I worked in the WTC so I got to see that by default but I probably never would have seen that had I not. Ditto the ESB. I missed a lot of the typical tourist destinations actually....
Rome, for me, it would be almost all about the museums and maybe some of the architecture. I know there a lot more there to see, but unless I had months and months to explore it? I really doubt I'd get out of the museums enough to see that much of it.