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This is a list of the most-visited museums in the United States in 2020. It is based upon the annual survey of museum attendance by the Art Newspaper published in March 2021, the TEA-AECOM Museum survey, published in September 2021, and some annual reports from the museums themselves.

The figures in this survey show the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which 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 twenty most-visited museums in The United States dropped by 80.1 percent, from 49,763,000 visitors in 2019 to 7,884,000 visitors in 2020.[1]

number of visitors in 2020
Metropolitan Museum of Art	New York City	1,125,000 (2020) (down 83 percent from 2019)	2020[1]
Denver Museum of Nature and Science	Denver	991,000 (2020) (down 39.4 percent from 2019)	2020[1]
National Gallery of Art	Washington, D.C.	730,000 (2020) (down 82 percent from 2019)	2020[1]
Museum of Modern Art	New York City	706,000 (2020) (down 65 percent from 2019)	2020[1]
National Museum of Natural History	Washington, D.C.	572,638 (2020) (down 86.4 percent from 2019)	2020[1]
Huntington Library	San Marino, California	547,000 (2020) (down 34 percent from 2019)	2020[2]
Houston Museum of Fine Arts	Houston, Texas	401,935 (2020) (down 68 percent from 2019)	2020[2]
Smithsonian American Art Museum	Washington, D.C.	387,403 (2020) (down 80 percent from 2019}	2020[3]
Art Institute of Chicago	Chicago	375,000 (2020) (down 78 percent from 2019)	2020[1]
National Museum of African American History and Culture	Washington, D.C.	368,000 (2020) (down 81.6 percent from 2019)	2020[1]
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art	Bentonville, Arkansas	353,123 (2020) {down 50 percent from 2019)	2020[2]
National Portrait Gallery and National Museum of American Art	Washington, D.C.	321,266 (2020) (down 81 percent from 2019)	2020[2]
Field Museum of Natural History	Chicago	316,000 (2020) (down 78.8 percent from 2019)	2020[1]
Udvar-Hazy Center[ii]	Chantilly, VA	311,548 (2020) (down 75 percent from 2019)	2020[4]
National Museum of American History	Washington, D.C.	311,000 (2020) (down 88.8 percent from 2019	2020[1]
Getty Center	Los Angeles	267,035 (2020) (down 81 percent from 2019)	2020[2]
National Air and Space Museum	Washington, D.C.	267,000 (2020) (down 91.7 percent from 2019)	2020[1]
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts	Richmond, Virginia	260,350 (2020) (down 49 percent from 2019	2020[2]
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston	Boston	249,881 (2020) (down 80 percent from 2019)	2020[1]
California Science Center	Los Angeles	240,000 (2020) (down 81.4 percent from 2019)	2020[1]
Whitney Museum of American Art	New York City	233,180 (2020) (down 78 percent from 2019)	2020[5]
Solomon Guggenheim Museum	New York City	154,495 (2020) (down 88 percent from 2019)	2020[5]

Notes and Citations

See also

• List of most-visited museums
• List of most-visited art museums
• List of most-visited museums by region
• List of largest art museums
• List of most visited palaces and monuments
• List of most visited museums in the Netherlands
• List of most visited museums in the United Kingdom

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