The Andy Warhol Museum on the North Shore occupies a seven-storey former warehouse and holds the most comprehensive collection of Warhol's work in existence: paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, films, sculpture, and an extraordinary archive of source material. There is nothing like it. The collection is arranged chronologically, taking you from his Pittsburgh childhood and early commercial illustration work through the Factory years, the celebrity portraits, the Disaster series, and the late religious paintings. The sheer volume of the work is staggering.
The museum's collection includes more than 900 paintings, 100 sculptures, 4,000 photographs, and 4,500 drawings. The film and video archive is particularly remarkable: Warhol was a prodigious filmmaker and many of his screen tests and early films are shown here in dedicated viewing rooms. Allow at least three hours. The museum is closed Mondays; check the website for hours and the current exhibition programme, which supplements the permanent collection with substantial temporary shows.