List of most-visited museums in the United States explained
This is a list of the most-visited museums in the United States in 2023 and 2022. It is based upon the statistics of the Smithsonian Institution Newsroom (January 2024) and the annual survey of museum attendance by the Art Newspaper published in March 2023 and 2024.
The figures in this survey show the diminishing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which had caused all of the museums on the list to be closed for long periods of time, and which greatly reduced tourism to the United States. Attendance at the museums listed in the TEA-AECOM Museum Index published in 2023 showed an increase of 70 percent over 2022 levels, but was still only 60 percent of pre-COVID attendance.[1]
| Rank | Museum | Location | Visitors | Year |
|---|
| (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York City | 5,364,000 | 2023 |
| (2) | National Museum of Natural History | Washington, D.C. | 4,400,000 | 2023[2] |
| (3) | National Gallery of Art | Washington, D.C. | 3,829,812 | 2023 |
| (4) | | National Air and Space Museum (with Udvar-Hazy Center) | Washington, D.C. | 3,100,000 | 2023[3] |
| (5) | | Museum of Modern Art | New York City | 2,839,509 | 2023 |
| (6) | | National Museum of American History | Washington, D.C. | 2,100,000 | 2023[4] |
| (6) | California Science Center | Los Angeles | 1,694,000 | 2022 |
| (7) | | National Museum of African American History and Culture | Washington, D.C. | 1,600,000 | 2023[5] |
| (8) | | Houston Museum of Natural Science | Houston | 1,520,000 | 2022 |
| (9) | | Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago | 1,300,000 | 2023[6] |
| (10) | | Getty Center | Los Angeles | 1,251,134 | 2023 |
| (11) | | National Portrait Gallery | Washington, D.C. | 1,166,129 | 2023 |
| (12) | Denver Museum of Nature and Science | Denver | 1,151,000 | 2022 |
| (13) | | Griffin Museum of Science and Industry | Chicago | 1,134,000 | 2022 |
| (14) | | Museum of Science | Boston | 1,123,000 | 2022 |
| (15) | | Smithsonian American Art Museum (with Renwick Gallery) | Washington, D.C. | 1,100,000 | 2023 [7] |
| (16) | | Huntington Library | San Marino, California | 1,041,881 | 2022[8] |
| (17) | | Field Museum of Natural History | Chicago | 1,018,002 | 2022 [9] |
| (18) | | De Young Museum | San Francisco | 999,645 | 2023 |
| (19) | | Houston Museum of Fine Arts | Houston | 999,514 | 2023 |
| (20) | | California Academy of Sciences | San Francisco | 966,000 | 2022[10] |
| (21) | Museum of Fine Arts | Boston | 952,290 | 2023 |
| (22) | | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Los Angeles | 902,237 | 2023 |
| (23) | The Broad | Los Angeles | 895,949 | 2023 |
| (24) | | Solomon Guggenheim Museum | New York City | 861,374 | 2023 |
| (25) | Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art | Bentonville, Arkansas | 784,971 | 2023 |
| (26) | | Whitney Museum of American Art | New York City | 768,000 | 2023 |
| (27) | Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park | Grand Rapids, Michigan | 760,667 | 2023 |
| (28) | | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Washington, D.C. | 714,684 | 2023[11] |
| (29) | | National Museum of the American Indian | Washington, D.C. | 701,021 | 2023 |
| (30) | Cleveland Museum of Art | Cleveland | 685,336 | 2023 |
| (31) | | Denver Art Museum | Denver | 656,342 | 2022[12] |
| (32) | Minneapolis Institute of Art | Minneapolis | 591,069 | 2022[13] |
| (33) | | Pacific Science Center | Seattle | 410,000 | 2022[14] | |
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: 2024-03-26 . The 100 most popular art museums in the world—blockbusters, bots and bounce-backs . 2024-03-26 . The Art Newspaper - International art news and events.
- Smithsonian Institution Newsdesk, retrieved July 9, 2023
- Smithsonian Institution NewsDesk, retrieved January 10, 2024
- Smithsonian Institution Newsdesk, retrieved January 10, 2024
- Smithsonian Institution Newsdesk, retrieved January 10, 2024
- New York Times, March 21, 2024
- Smithsonian Institution Newsdesk, retrieved January 10, 2024
- "Art Newspaper" March 28, 2023
- TEA-AECOM Museum Index, published June, 2023
- TEA-AECOM Museum Index, published June 23, 2023
- Smithsonian Institution Newsdesk, retrieved July 9, 2023
- "The Art Newspaper, March 28,2023
- Minneapolis Star-Tribune, December 30, 2022
- Pacific Science Center Annual Report, 2023
