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Top 100 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 927k, 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 refreshed weekly.

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Rank

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

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 37.8 56.6% Museum
2 British Museum 6.5M 43.8 57.2% Museum
3 Metropolitan Museum of Art 5.2M 39.9 60.7% Museum
4 Saatchi Gallery 3.7M 34.0 57.7% Museum
5 Children's museum 3.1M 39.3 72.3% Museum
6 Tate Modern 2.6M 35.7 56.1% Museum
7 Whitney Museum of American Art 2.4M 35.6 54.9% Museum
8 Gagosian Gallery 2.4M 33.8 63.0% Museum
9 Rijksmuseum 2.3M 45.3 63.5% Museum
10 Los Angeles County Museum of Art 2.2M 43.5 60.4% Museum
11 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1.8M 36.7 54.4% Museum
12 Biltmore Estate 1.7M 48.1 72.1% Museum
13 American Museum of Natural History 1.7M 38.9 53.7% Museum
14 Brooklyn Museum 1.6M 44.7 48.3% Museum
15 Museum of Science and Industry (Manchester) 1.5M 35.5 78.3% Museum
16 Frieze Art Fair 1.4M 33.5 56.8% Museum
17 Van Gogh Museum 1.4M 40.3 63.7% Museum
18 Natural history museum 1.3M 45.7 58.3% Museum
19 Tate 1.3M 35.2 58.6% Museum
20 Victoria and Albert Museum 1.2M 38.2 61.0% Museum
21 Saatchi Art 1.1M 38.1 52.2% Museum
22 National Air and Space Museum 1.1M 45.2 43.0% Museum
23 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 1.1M 46.4 63.3% Museum
24 National Gallery of Art 1.1M 42.4 66.4% Museum
25 Science Museum, London 995k 37.1 56.2% Museum

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 100 list 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 refreshed weekly 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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