The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, dubbed "the Met" by locals, is the world's biggest art museum. Its permanent collection, which is split into 17 curatorial divisions, has almost two million items. The main structure, located at 1000 Fifth Avenue on Manhattan's Upper East Side's Museum Mile on the eastern side of Central Park, is one of the world's largest art museums by area. The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, a considerably smaller second site, houses a large collection of medieval art, architecture, and antiquities.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art was established in 1870 with the goal of bringing art and art education to the people of the United States. The permanent collection of the museum includes works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt, paintings and sculptures by practically all European masters, and a large collection of American and contemporary art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a large collection of African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine, and Islamic art. The museum houses an extensive collection of musical instruments, clothing, and accessories, as well as historical weaponry and armor from all around the world. In its galleries, there are several remarkable interiors spanning from 1st-century Rome to current American design.

Location: 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028, America

Website: store.metmuseum.org

The National WWII Museum, originally known as the National D-Day Museum, is a military history museum situated on Andrew Higgins Drive between Camp Street and Magazine Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The museum focuses on the United States' role in the Allied victory in World War II. It was founded in 2000 and later certified as America's official National WWII Museum by the US Congress in 2003. As part of the Smithsonian Institution's outreach program, the museum is a Smithsonian Institution-linked institution. The museum's mission statement stresses the American experience throughout WWII.

The museum has since opened the Solomon Victory Theater, the John E. Kushner Restoration Pavilion, the US Freedom Pavilion: The Boeing Center, and the Campaigns of Courage pavilions, in addition to a second gallery exploring the amphibious invasions of the Pacific War in the original building, known as the Louisiana Memorial Pavilion. The Liberation Pavilion is scheduled to open in February 2022.

Location: 945 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA 70130, America

Website: nationalww2museum.org

The USS Midway Museum is a historical naval aircraft carrier located at Navy Pier in downtown San Diego, California. The aircraft carrier Midway is on display at the museum. The ship is home to a large collection of airplanes, many of which were produced in California. From 1945 through 1992, the USS Midway was the United States' longest-serving aircraft carrier of the twentieth century. Approximately 200,000 sailors served on the carrier, which was notable for various naval aviation firsts as well as humanitarian operations. It was the only aircraft carrier to service throughout the Cold War and beyond. In San Diego, California, it is now a museum ship.

Midway became a museum on June 7, 2004. Annual visitor numbers have surpassed one million by 2012. Midway is the most visited naval vessel museum in the United States as of 2015. The museum has approximately 13,000 members and sponsors over 700 events each year, including over 400 active-duty Navy retirements, re-enlistments, and command changes. Every year, the museum accommodates over 50,000 schoolchildren on field excursions and 5,000 youngsters in its overnight program.

Location: 910 N Harbor Dr, San Diego, CA 92101, America

Website: midway.org

The Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, usually known as the Air and Space Museum, is a museum in Washington, D.C., United States. It began as the National Air Museum in 1946 and moved to its current location on the National Mall near L'Enfant Plaza in 1976. The museum saw roughly 6.2 million visitors in 2018, making it the world's fifth most visited museum and the United States' second most visited museum. Museum attendance fell to 267,000 in 2020 owing to protracted closures and a reduction in international tourists triggered by the COVID-19 epidemic.

The National Air and Space Museum is a research center for aviation and spaceflight history and science, as well as planetary science and terrestrial geology and geophysics. Almost all of the space and aircraft on the show are originals or backups. It has a Dulles International Airport extension, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, which opened in 2003 and covers 760,000 square feet (71,000 m2). As of 2014, the museum's collection was restored at the Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility in Suitland, Maryland, while restoration and archive activities were moved to the Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar at the Udvar-Hazy annex.

Location: Independence Ave SW & 6th St SW, Washington, DC 20024, America

Website: airandspace.si.edu

The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. It is open 364 days a year and is free to enter. With 7.1 million visitors in 2016, it was the world's eighth most visited museum and the most frequented natural history museum. The museum on the National Mall, which opened in 1910, was one of the first Smithsonian buildings built solely to house national collections and research facilities. The main structure is 1.5 million square feet (140,000 m2) in size, with 325,000 square feet (30,200 m2) of display and public space, and over 1,000 staff.

The museum has the world's biggest natural history collection, with over 145 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, human remains, and human cultural items. It also houses over 185 professional natural history scientists, making it the world's biggest collection of scientists committed to natural and cultural history research.

Location: Stigen 10, Sandviken, Gävleborg 81191, America

Website: naturalhistory.si.edu

The Salvador Dalí Museum is a museum dedicated to the works of Salvador Dal in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. It is bordered by 5th Avenue Southeast, Bay Shore Drive, and Dan Wheldon Way on the downtown St. Petersburg waterfront. If you have a virtual reality headset, you should download the interactive experience Dreams of Dal right now. The critically praised show transports visitors to a strange realm of sight and sound created by the Spanish artist. If you don't have a VR headset, a 360-degree movie will give you a taste of Dreams of Dal. Otherwise, try this peaceful guided doodling practice to clear your thoughts and temporarily forget about the rest of the world.

Families may participate in a range of activities at the museum. Performances, workshops, films, talks, various sorts of fundraisers, and food and drink events are all examples of events. Members have had the opportunity to participate in homemade Christmas card workshops in the past, where they developed their own holiday cards with a Dal theme. There have also been weekly poetry readings and talks, such as coffee with a curator, and a presentation on a theme-oriented topic that covers a wide range of Dal-related issues.

Location: 1 Dali Blvd, St Petersburg, FL 33701, America

Website: thedali.org

The Petersen Automotive Museum is in the Miracle Mile district of Los Angeles, on Wilshire Boulevard, along Museum Row. The Petersen Automotive Museum is a nonprofit organization focusing on vehicle history and associated educational initiatives. It is one of the world's largest automotive museums.

In its 25 halls, the museum has approximately 100 automobiles on exhibit. The other half is held in a vault in the basement of the building. The vault collection is subject to age restrictions and an entry fee. The bottom level is dedicated to automotive creativity, with a variety of lavish vehicles on display. Industrial engineering is the focus of the second level, which includes design, performance, and a range of interactive instructional displays. Racing, motorbikes, hot rods, and customs are all shown in special displays on the industrial floor. The third level is dedicated to the history of the vehicle, with a focus on Southern California's automotive culture.

Location: 6060 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036, America

Website: petersen.org

In the Seattle metropolitan region, the Museum of Flight is a private non-profit aviation and space museum. It's in the city of Tukwila, just south of Seattle, near the southern end of King County International Airport (Boeing Field). The American Alliance of Museums has fully certified the museum, which was founded in 1965. It also provides significant K–12 educational programs as the world's biggest private aviation and space museum.

Every year, the museum receives over 500,000 visitors[6] and educates over 140,000 children through its onsite programs, which include a Challenger Learning Center, an Aviation Learning Center, and a summer camp (ACE), as well as outreach programs that travel throughout Washington and Oregon. With the addition of a Challenger Learning Center in 1992, the museum's educational activities expanded dramatically. Students may participate in a Space Shuttle mission with this interactive display. It has a scale model of NASA mission control as well as experiments from many fields of space exploration.

Location: 9404 E Marginal Way S, Seattle, WA 98108, America

Website: museumofflight.org

The Museum of the American Revolution (previously The American Revolution Center) is a museum dedicated to recounting the narrative of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On April 19, 2017, the 242nd anniversary of the initial engagements of the war, at Lexington and Concord, the museum opened to the public.

The museum has a large collection of artwork and sculpture, as well as textiles and weaponry, manuscripts, and rare books. Permanent and special exhibition galleries, theaters, and large-scale tableaux depict personalities and events, engaging visitors in the history of the American Revolution and its current importance.

The chairman of the Board of Directors is General John P. Jumper. In November 2018, Dr. R. Scott Stephenson was named president and CEO. H. F. "Gerry" Lenfest, a media entrepreneur and philanthropist from the Philadelphia region, served as chairman of the board of directors from 2005 to 2016 and was essential in the Museum's inauguration in 2017.

Location: 101 S 3rd St, Philadelphia, PA 19106, America

Website: amrevmuseum.org

The International Spy Museum is a private non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the art, history, and current function of espionage. It has the world's greatest public collection of international espionage artifacts. The museum was opened in 2002 in Washington, D.C.'s Penn Quarter area before moving to L'Enfant Plaza in 2019. Scholarly lectures, films, book signings, hands-on workshops, and group travel packages are among the educational and cultural offerings available to students, adults, and families. Admission to the museum is charged.

More than 7,000 objects are housed in the museum, with roughly 1,000 on public exhibit, as well as historical images, interactive displays, film, and video. From the Egyptian, Greek, and Roman empires to the Middle Ages, Renaissance, British Empire, American Revolutionary War, French Revolution, Napoleonic Wars, American Civil War, both World Wars, Cold War, and current espionage activities, the permanent collection recounts the whole history of espionage.

Location: 700 Lenfant Plaza SW, Washington, DC 20024, America

Website: spymuseum.org

The Getty Center is a facility hosting the Getty Museum and other Getty Trust initiatives in Los Angeles, California. The $1.3 billion Center, which opened to the public on December 16, 1997, is noted for its architecture, gardens, and panoramic vistas of Los Angeles. A three-car, cable-pulled hovertrain people mover connects the Center to a visitors' parking facility at the bottom of the hill.

The Center, which is located in the Brentwood district of Los Angeles, is one of two J. Paul Getty Museum sites and attracts 1.8 million people each year. The Museum's Center branch houses pre-20th-century European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, and decorative arts, as well as pictures from throughout the world dating from the 1830s to the present day. In addition, the Museum's collection at the Center contains outdoor sculptures on terraces and in gardens, as well as Robert Irwin's enormous Central Garden. The painting Irises by Vincent van Gogh is one of the paintings on show.

Location: 1200 Getty Center Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90049

Website: getty.edu

The Art Institute of Chicago, located in Grant Park in Chicago, was founded in 1879 and is one of the world's oldest and biggest art museums. The museum attracts around 1.5 million visitors each year and is known for its curatorial efforts and popularity among tourists. Its encyclopedic collection, which is overseen by 11 curatorial departments, includes works including Georges Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Pablo Picasso's The Old Guitarist, and Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, and Grant Wood's American Gothic. Its permanent collection of almost 300,000 pieces of art is supplemented by over 30 special exhibits held each year that highlight different parts of the collection as well as cutting-edge curatorial and scientific research.

The museum's 1893 structure, which was built for the World's Columbian Exposition, has seen various expansions as the collection has grown. The Modern Wing, built by Renzo Piano and completed in 2009, expanded the museum's area to approximately one million square feet, making it the United States' second-largest art museum behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Art Institute is affiliated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a prestigious art school, making it one of the United States' few remaining united arts organizations.

Location: 111 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603

Website: artic.edu