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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C.
National Gallery of Art, East Building, Washington DC
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
National Museum of American History, Washington D.C.

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[1]
(2) American Museum of Natural History New York City 5,000,000 2023[2]
(3) National Museum of Natural History Washington, D.C. 4,400,000 2023[2]
(4) National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. 3,829,812 2023[1]
(5) National Air and Space Museum (with Udvar-Hazy Center) Washington, D.C. 3,100,000 2023[2]
(6) Museum of Modern Art New York City 2,839,509 2023[1]
(7) National 9/11 Museum New York City 2,265,000 2023[1]
(8) National Museum of American History Washington, D.C. 2,100,000 2023[2]
(9) Houston Museum of Natural Science Houston 1,800,000 2023[1]
(10) California Science Center Los Angeles 1,700,000 2023[1]
(11) National Museum of African American History and Culture Washington, D.C. 1,600,000 2023[2]
(12) Griffin Museum of Science and Industry Chicago 1,476,000 2023[1]
(13) Smithsonian American Art Museum (with Renwick Gallery) Washington, D.C. 1,400,000 2023[2]
(14) Art Institute of Chicago Chicago 1,300,000 2023[3]
(15) Getty Center Los Angeles 1,251,134 2023[1]
(16) Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
(with George C. Page Museum at La Brea Tar Pits
and William S. Hart Museum) 		Los Angeles 1,200,000 2023[4]
(17) National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. 1,166,129 2023[1]
(18) Denver Museum of Nature and Science Denver 1,151,000 2022[1]
(19) Museum of Science Boston 1,123,000 2022[1]
(20) Huntington Library San Marino, California 1,041,881 2022[5]
(21) Field Museum of Natural History Chicago 1,018,002 2022[6][1]
(22) De Young Museum San Francisco 999,645 2023[1]
(23) Houston Museum of Fine Arts Houston 999,514 2023[1]
(24) California Academy of Sciences San Francisco 966,000 2022[7]
(25) Museum of Fine Arts Boston 952,290 2023[1]
(26) Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles 902,237 2023[1]
(27) The Broad Los Angeles 895,949 2023[1]
(28) Solomon Guggenheim Museum New York City 861,374 2023[1]
(29) Perot Museum of Nature and Science Dallas 849,329 2023[8]
(30) Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Bentonville, Arkansas 784,971 2023[1]
(31) Whitney Museum of American Art New York City 768,000 2023[1]
(32) Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park Grand Rapids, Michigan 760,667 2023[1]
(33) Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington, D.C. 714,684 2023[2]
(34) National Museum of the American Indian Washington, D.C. 704,074 2023[2]
(35) Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland 685,336 2023[1]
(36) Denver Art Museum Denver 656,342 2022[5]
(37) North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences Raleigh, North Carolina 617,375 2022[9]
(38) Minneapolis Institute of Art Minneapolis 591,069 2022[10]
(39) Milwaukee Public Museum Milwaukee 549,670 2023[11]
(40) The Museum of Flight Seattle 445,538 2023[12]
(41) Pacific Science Center Seattle 410,000 2022[13]
(42) Fernbank Museum of Natural History Atlanta 408,000 2023[14]

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Notes and citations

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w "The 100 most popular art museums in the world—blockbusters, bots and bounce-backs". The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. 2024-03-26. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Smithsonian Institution Newsdesk Visitor Stats, retrieved December 26, 2024.
  3. ^ New York Times, March 21, 2024
  4. ^ Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM) (December 19, 2023). "Thank You | Our Year in Review | 2023 #nhmla #losangeles". YouTube.
  5. ^ a b "The Art Newspaper, March 28, 2023
  6. ^ TEA-AECOM Museum Index, published June, 2023
  7. ^ TEA-AECOM Museum Index, published June 23, 2023
  8. ^ Perot Museum of Nature and Science Impact Report, October 1, 2002 - September 30, 2023.
  9. ^ North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences Annual Report FY 2021-2022.
  10. ^ Minneapolis Star-Tribune, December 30, 2022
  11. ^ Milwaukee Public Museum Annual Report 2022/23.
  12. ^ The Museum of Flight. "The Museum of Flight Annual Report 2024".
  13. ^ Pacific Science Center Annual Report, 2023
  14. ^ Fernbank Museum Impact Report, 2023.
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