Today is Follow a Museum Day on Twitter!  Not on Twitter? Check out my post about Twitter to get started: I Heart Twitter

There are hundreds of museums on Twitter including huge museums like:

• @MetMuseum (New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art) 
• @NMNH (the Smithsonian's National Museum of National History)
• @MuseodelPrado (the Museo Nacional del Prado in Spain)
• @V_and_A (the Victoria and Albert Museum in London)  

But there are also tons of smaller, regional museums tweeting including:

• @KobeFashionM (the Kobe Fashion Museum in Japan -- tweets in Japanese)
• @TheWomensMuseum (The Women's Museum in Dallas, Texas)
• @witchmuseum (the Museum of Witchcraft in Cornwall, England)
• @JamesJoyceCentr (the James Joyce Center in Dublin, Ireland)
• @TekniskMuseum (the Norsk Teknisk Museum in Norway)

Why follow museums on Twitter?  
Well, here are my 5 Reasons to Follow a Museum Today:

1. Tweeps like @Exploratorium tweet great water cooler trivia and fun images to perk up your day. Check out this one from @NatHistoryWhale: http://bit.ly/4ZHKmO
2. @Tate and other museums often do giveaways in conjunction with their current exhibitions.  @iheartsam recently gave away copies of my book + tix to their Michelangelo exhibit in a tweet-to-win contest!
3. Hear about special events, concerts, and speakers. Today @HolocaustMuseum is tweeting about a talk by Professor Susan Suleiman coming up next week.
4. Stay up-to-date on current exhibits, acquisitions, and museum news.  That's how I heard that @KimbellArt bought a Michelangelo and that the King Tut Exhibit was headed to @deyoungmuseum!
5. Museums need and deserve your support! These are rough times for even the largest museums.  Love science, technology, art, history, dinosaurs, plants, fashion, music... there's a museum for everyone.  Find and follow one today!

My Recommendations:
I have my own list of favorite museum tweeps: http://twitter.com/AKNickerson/museums  Follow the whole list, and you'll never miss another great tweet!

Additionally, the Follow a Museum Day sponsors have collected a very thorough directory of museums, sorted by country: www.FollowaMuseum.com