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The 100 most popular Museums in United States

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest museums in United States, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 729 museums tracked in United States, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Museum of Modern Art, British Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 19M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 929k, and the largest, Museum of Modern Art, reaches around 7.4M people in United States. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in United States who actively engage with each museum, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across United States and are updated quarterly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated quarterly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in United States who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in United States. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in United States, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in United States. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
1 Museum of Modern Art 7.4M 38.6 56.6% Museum
2 British Museum 6.5M 44.5 57.2% Museum
3 Metropolitan Museum of Art 5.2M 40.6 60.7% Museum
4 Saatchi Gallery 3.7M 34.7 57.7% Museum
5 Children's museum 3.1M 40.0 72.3% Museum
6 Tate Modern 2.6M 36.4 56.1% Museum
7 Whitney Museum of American Art 2.4M 36.3 54.9% Museum
8 Gagosian Gallery 2.4M 34.6 63.0% Museum
9 Rijksmuseum 2.3M 46.0 63.5% Museum
10 Los Angeles County Museum of Art 2.2M 44.2 60.4% Museum
11 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1.8M 37.4 54.4% Museum
12 Biltmore Estate 1.7M 48.9 72.1% Museum
13 American Museum of Natural History 1.7M 39.6 53.7% Museum
14 Brooklyn Museum 1.6M 45.4 48.3% Museum
15 Museum of Science and Industry (Manchester) 1.5M 36.1 78.3% Museum
16 Frieze Art Fair 1.4M 34.2 56.8% Museum
17 Van Gogh Museum 1.4M 41.1 63.7% Museum
18 Natural history museum 1.3M 46.5 58.3% Museum
19 Tate 1.3M 35.9 58.6% Museum
20 Victoria and Albert Museum 1.2M 39.0 61.0% Museum
21 SS Great Britain 1.2M 46.8 58.0% Museum
22 Saatchi Art 1.1M 38.8 52.2% Museum
23 National Air and Space Museum 1.1M 46.0 43.0% Museum
24 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 1.1M 47.2 63.3% Museum
25 National Gallery of Art 1.1M 43.1 66.4% Museum
26 Science Museum, London 995k 37.8 56.2% Museum
27 Florence Cathedral 979k 41.2 53.1% Museum
28 Science museum 959k 42.0 62.1% Museum
29 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 846k 44.0 57.5% Museum
30 National September 11 Memorial & Museum 822k 49.1 53.4% Museum
31 Aviation museum 786k 40.2 33.7% Museum
32 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 760k 44.1 60.7% Museum
33 National Corvette Museum 736k 47.2 9.8% Museum
34 National Civil Rights Museum 727k 47.6 53.0% Museum
35 Musical Instrument Museum (Brussels) 714k — — Museum
36 National Gallery 709k 39.5 67.3% Museum
37 Getty Center 668k 47.3 56.2% Museum
38 Philadelphia Museum of Art 664k 47.6 61.7% Museum
39 California Science Center 651k 42.2 59.6% Museum
40 National Museum of American History 641k 41.2 49.7% Museum
41 Royal Academy of Arts 613k 42.1 59.3% Museum
42 Pérez Art Museum Miami 602k 34.8 50.7% Museum
43 De Young (museum) 597k 47.4 57.9% Museum
44 Field Museum of Natural History 596k 38.5 52.0% Museum
45 Museum of Sex 579k 33.1 53.2% Museum
46 Z Gallerie 537k 41.9 81.9% Museum
47 TsUM (Moscow) 528k 38.2 57.2% Museum
48 Natural History Museum, London 514k 37.9 55.4% Museum
49 New Museum 504k 40.6 56.0% Museum
50 Smithsonian American Art Museum 502k 46.7 62.5% Museum
51 Alamo Mission in San Antonio 491k 42.8 49.8% Museum
52 Museum of Mathematics 486k — — Museum
53 Museum of Contemporary Art (Basel) 474k 41.4 38.9% Museum
54 J. Paul Getty Museum 448k 44.5 58.3% Museum
55 Tate Britain 446k 40.9 57.1% Museum
56 National Museum of Natural History (France) 434k 43.9 53.1% Museum
57 National Museum of Natural History 430k 46.5 54.6% Museum
58 MoMA PS1 430k 46.7 53.2% Museum
59 The National WWII Museum 423k 50.1 32.7% Museum
60 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 421k 44.5 57.7% Museum
61 Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest) 418k 44.9 73.3% Museum
62 Chicago History Museum 405k 37.3 53.3% Museum
63 Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago) 405k 44.1 59.4% Museum
64 Seattle Art Museum 401k 39.6 61.2% Museum
65 Palais de Tokyo 400k 39.3 62.9% Museum
66 Exploratorium 396k 43.8 61.6% Museum
67 Petersen Automotive Museum 387k 45.5 18.8% Museum
68 New-York Historical Society 375k 45.7 53.1% Museum
69 Railway Museum (Saitama) 360k 44.3 43.7% Museum
70 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 351k 44.2 56.3% Museum
71 Israel Museum 351k 41.1 60.3% Museum
72 Cleveland Museum of Art 347k 44.3 63.2% Museum
73 Churchill War Rooms 346k 44.3 28.7% Museum
74 Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 344k 42.6 60.3% Museum
75 Centre Georges Pompidou 339k 39.7 44.3% Museum
76 Rodin Museum 339k — — Museum
77 Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts 331k 47.6 67.4% Museum
78 Capitoline Museums 327k 45.9 67.5% Museum
79 Harley-Davidson Museum 326k 40.0 31.3% Museum
80 Museo del Prado 321k 42.8 57.8% Museum
81 Frick Collection 321k 46.7 54.2% Museum
82 Kunsthistorisches Museum 318k 35.9 53.8% Museum
83 San Diego Natural History Museum 314k 35.9 49.6% Museum
84 National Museum of African American History and Culture 313k 37.4 71.5% Museum
85 The Gettysburg Museum Of History 300k 36.6 46.8% Museum
86 The Andy Warhol Museum 295k 44.4 56.5% Museum
87 Denver Museum of Nature and Science 293k 43.7 57.8% Museum
88 Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum 288k 38.9 45.0% Museum
89 Fort Worth Museum of Science and History 284k 35.5 89.3% Museum
90 David Zwirner Gallery 282k 32.8 41.8% Museum
91 White Cube 278k 32.2 42.6% Museum
92 World of Coca-Cola 277k 42.9 59.8% Museum
93 Canadian Museum of History 264k 36.9 51.2% Museum
94 City of David 262k 46.3 58.5% Museum
95 Musée d'Orsay 258k 40.9 64.2% Museum
96 Vatican Museums 253k 45.8 57.7% Museum
97 Alte Nationalgalerie 249k 44.2 94.0% Museum
98 Saint Louis Art Museum 245k 49.0 60.2% Museum
99 Dallas Museum of Art 241k 41.1 60.7% Museum
100 Adler Planetarium 240k 38.3 51.4% Museum

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular museums compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across United States and ranks each museum by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is updated quarterly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest museum in United States?

Museum of Modern Art currently leads with an estimated audience of 7.4M people in United States.

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