We’re still in travel planning mode for 2026 and, as always, we’re putting a lot of museums on list.

Here are few we’d love to visit.

Olympic Museum

The Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 will take place from February 6 to 22, 2026 in a variety of Northern Italian cities, including Milan (Milano) and rhe mountain resort of Cortina d’Ampezzo.

So this might be a good year to visit to the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, which is home to the world’s largest Olympic collection.

The museum displays the very first Olympic flag (1913), Olympics torches from every set of games since 1936, an exhibit on Olympic mascots and offers lots of interactive activities.

For the 2026 Winter Olympic games, the museum has created a downloadable guide and an on-site trail and exhibition inside the museum and out, in the museum’s Olympic Park, that celebrates the Olympic games held in Italy in 1956, 1960, 2006 and 2026.

The exhibition includes sculptures, photographs, the official 2026 torch, mascots and other artifacts.

(Images courtesy of the Olympic Museum)

Mississippi’s Smallest Museum

We received a short message from the folks in Hattiesburg, Mississippi about the Pocket Museum, which evidently began in a window down an alley.

Now Mississippi’s smallest museum has grown, a bit, and is now a destination.

The alley has a Pocket Theater, super-short films viewable through an eyepiece embedded in the wall, miniature dioramas, a Pocket Gallery, a Pocket Dance Spot and more.

Right now, one of the features in the pocket museum is small small scale art by @gigigunns_art in honor of Edgar Allen Poe’s January 19 birthday.

The Poe Museum

Since we’ve mentioned Edgar Allen Poe, let’s put the Poe Museum, which is housed in the oldest residential building in Richmond, VA, on the “let’s visit” wish list for 2026.

The museum collection includes Poe’s pocket watch, a fragment of his coffin, letters, manuscripts, first editions, his boot hooks, his waitcoast and more.

Have a favorite museum to add to the list? Let us know in the comment section below.