United States
24 museums
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The largest art museum in the Americas, two million works from every civilization. The Temple of Dendur in a glass hall, Washingto...
Museum of Modern Art
Founded by three women patrons in rented offices days after the Wall Street crash. Starry Night, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, The Pe...
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Frank Lloyd Wright's inverted ziggurat on Fifth Avenue, conceived as a single continuous ramp of art. The founding collection of n...
Brooklyn Museum
New York's third largest museum, in an 1897 McKim Mead and White beaux-arts pile. The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art...
American Museum of Natural History
Twenty-six interconnected buildings on Central Park West. The Barosaurus rearing in the rotunda, the blue whale overhead, the grea...
National Museum of Natural History
The Smithsonian's most visited museum, on the National Mall. The Hope Diamond, the Nation's T-rex, the insect zoo, and the Sant Oc...
National Air and Space Museum
The world's largest aviation and space collection: the 1903 Wright Flyer, Spirit of St Louis, Apollo 11 command module Columbia, a...
National Museum of American History
The Smithsonian's keeper of the nation's memory. The Star-Spangled Banner flag that flew over Fort McHenry in 1814, first ladies' ...
National Gallery of Art
Andrew Mellon's gift to the nation, a neoclassical West Building by John Russell Pope and an East Building by I.M. Pei. The only L...
Getty Center
Richard Meier's travertine acropolis above Brentwood, reached by a hovertrain. Van Gogh's Irises, the Getty kouros debates, Rembra...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The largest museum in the western United States, straddling Wilshire Boulevard. Urban Light's 202 restored street lamps became LA'...
Art Institute of Chicago
The grand beaux-arts museum on Michigan Avenue, guarded by the bronze lions. American Gothic, Nighthawks, Seurat's La Grande Jatte...
Field Museum
Founded on the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, now a lakefront palace of natural history. SUE, the largest and most complete T....
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
One of the most comprehensive museums in America, in a 1909 Guy Lowell building facing the Fenway. The largest Monet collection ou...
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
A Venetian palace built around a glassed courtyard garden, arranged forever by its founder's will. Titian's Europa, Rembrandt's se...
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Built for the Centennial Exhibition on a rise at the end of the Ben Franklin Parkway, its steps immortalized by Rocky. The world's...
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Neoclassical 1916 building by Hubbell and Benes on the park lagoon, with Rafael Vinoly's 2013 glass atrium stitching old wings...
Kimbell Art Museum
Louis Kahn's vaulted masterwork in golden light, small and world-class. The Kimbell owns one canvas each by Caravaggio, Velazquez,...
Whitney Museum of American Art
Founded by sculptor and patron Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney after the Met declined her gift of works by living American artists. It...
National Museum of African American History and Culture
The Smithsonian museum opened on the National Mall in 2016, a century after Black Civil War veterans first proposed a national mem...
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
America's national memorial to the Holocaust opened beside the National Mall in 1993. Visitors receive an identification card tell...
Exploratorium
Founded by physicist Frank Oppenheimer in 1969 inside the Palace of Fine Arts, the Exploratorium pioneered the hands-on science mu...
Museum of Science and Industry Chicago
Housed in the Palace of Fine Arts from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, one of the few buildings of the fair still standing....
Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation
Henry Ford's vast hall of American invention was dedicated in 1929 on the 50th anniversary of Edison's light bulb. It holds the bu...