# List of most-visited museums in the United States

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.
| Rank | Museum | Location | Visitors | Year |
| (1) | Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York City | 5,364,000 | 2023 |
| (2) | American Museum of Natural History | New York City | 5,000,000 | 2023 |
| (3) | National Museum of Natural History | Washington, D.C. | 4,400,000 | 2023 |
| (4) | National Gallery of Art | Washington, D.C. | 3,829,812 | 2023 |
| (5) | National Air and Space Museum (with Udvar-Hazy Center) | Washington, D.C. | 3,100,000 | 2023 |
| (6) | Museum of Modern Art | New York City | 2,839,509 | 2023 |
| (7) | National 9/11 Museum | New York City | 2,265,000 | 2023 |
| (8) | National Museum of American History | Washington, D.C. | 2,100,000 | 2023 |
| (9) | Houston Museum of Natural Science | Houston | 1,800,000 | 2023 |
| (10) | California Science Center | Los Angeles | 1,700,000 | 2023 |
| (11) | National Museum of African American History and Culture | Washington, D.C. | 1,600,000 | 2023 |
| (12) | Griffin Museum of Science and Industry | Chicago | 1,476,000 | 2023 |
| (13) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (with Renwick Gallery) | Washington, D.C. | 1,400,000 | 2023 |
| (14) | Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago | 1,300,000 | 2023 |
| (15) | Getty Center | Los Angeles | 1,251,134 | 2023 |
| (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 |
| (17) | National Portrait Gallery | Washington, D.C. | 1,166,129 | 2023 |
| (18) | Denver Museum of Nature and Science | Denver | 1,151,000 | 2022 |
| (19) | Museum of Science | Boston | 1,123,000 | 2022 |
| (20) | Huntington Library | San Marino, California | 1,041,881 | 2022 |
| (21) | Field Museum of Natural History | Chicago | 1,018,002 | 2022 |
| (22) | De Young Museum | San Francisco | 999,645 | 2023 |
| (23) | Houston Museum of Fine Arts | Houston | 999,514 | 2023 |
| (24) | California Academy of Sciences | San Francisco | 966,000 | 2022 |
| (25) | Museum of Fine Arts | Boston | 952,290 | 2023 |
| (26) | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Los Angeles | 902,237 | 2023 |
| (27) | The Broad | Los Angeles | 895,949 | 2023 |
| (28) | Solomon Guggenheim Museum | New York City | 861,374 | 2023 |
| (29) | Perot Museum of Nature and Science | Dallas | 849,329 | 2023 |
| (30) | Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art | Bentonville, Arkansas | 784,971 | 2023 |
| (31) | Whitney Museum of American Art | New York City | 768,000 | 2023 |
| (32) | Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park | Grand Rapids, Michigan | 760,667 | 2023 |
| (33) | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Washington, D.C. | 714,684 | 2023 |
| (34) | National Museum of the American Indian | Washington, D.C. | 704,074 | 2023 |
| (35) | Cleveland Museum of Art | Cleveland | 685,336 | 2023 |
| (36) | Denver Art Museum | Denver | 656,342 | 2022 |
| (37) | North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences | Raleigh, North Carolina | 617,375 | 2022 |
| (38) | Minneapolis Institute of Art | Minneapolis | 591,069 | 2022 |
| (39) | Milwaukee Public Museum | Milwaukee | 549,670 | 2023 |
| (40) | The Museum of Flight | Seattle | 445,538 | 2023 |
| (41) | Pacific Science Center | Seattle | 410,000 | 2022 |
| (42) | Fernbank Museum of Natural History | Atlanta | 408,000 | 2023 |