National Museum of Natural History , Washington D.C.National Gallery of Art , East Building, Washington DCMetropolitan Museum of Art , New York City 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 Instituion Newsroom (January 2024) and the annual survey of museum attendance by the Art Newspaper published in March 2023.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Museum_of_Natural_History#:~:text=AMNH%20has%20a%20full%2Dtime,about%20five%20million%20visits%20annually.
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)
National Museum of Natural History Washington, D.C. 4,400,000
2023[2]
(2)
National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. 3,800,000
2023[3]
(3)
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City 3,208,832
2022[1]
(4)
Museum of Modern Art New York City 2,190,440
2022[1]
(5)
National Museum of American History Washington, D.C. 2,100,000
2023[4]
(6)
California Science Center Los Angeles 1,694,000
2022 [1]
(7)
Houston Museum of Natural Science Houston, Texas 1,520,000
2022[1]
(8)
National Air and Space Museum (with Udvar-Hazy Center )Washington, D.C. 3,100,000
2023[5]
(9)
Denver Museum of Nature and Science Denver, Colorado 1,151,000
2022[1]
(10)
Museum of Science and Industry Chicago, Illinois 1,134,000
2022[1]
(11)
Museum of Science (Boston) Boston, Massachusetts 1,123,000
2022[1]
(12)
Smithsonian American Art Museum (with Renwick Gallery )Washington, D.C. 1,100,000
2023 [6]
(13)
National Museum of African American History and Culture Washington, D.C. 1,600,000
2023[7]
(14)
Huntington Library San Marino, California 1,041,881
2022[8]
(15)
Art Institute of Chicago Chicago 1,037,000
2022[9]
(16)
Field Museum of Natural History Chicago 1,018,002
2022 [10] [1]
(17)
Getty Center Los Angeles 989,302
2022[1] [11]
(18)
California Academy of Sciences San Francisco, California 966,000
2022[12]
(19)
National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. 885,094
2023[13]
(20)
Houston Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas
903,443
2022 [14]
(21)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles
867,322
2022[15]
(22)
Whitney Museum of American Art New York City
838,721
2022[16]
(23)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington, D.C. 714,684
2023[17]
(24)
De Young Museum San Francisco 797,444
2022[18]
(25)
Solomon Guggenheim Museum New York City
750,000
2022[19]
(26)
Denver Art Museum Denver, Colorado
656,342
2022[20]
(27)
The Broad Los Angeles, California
638,326
2022[21]
(28)
Minneapolis Institute of Art Minneapolis, Minnesota
591,069
2022[22]
(29)
National Museum of the American Indian Washington, D.C.
704,044
2023[23]
(30)
Pacific Science Center Seattle, Washington
410,000
2022[24]
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