FINE ART MUSEUMS

Comprehensive listing of fine art museums in the United States.
These museums feature modern and contemporary art, fine art photography, traditional art, and present major traveling exhibitions. If you are interested in learning about or seeing fine art exhibitions, visit these museums.

Alabama | Alaska | Arizona | Arkansas | California | Colorado | ConnecticutDelaware | District of Columbia Florida | Georgia | Hawaii | Idaho | IllinoisIndiana  |  Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Louisiana | Maine | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | Mississippi | Missouri | Montana | Nebraska | Nevada
New Hampshire | New Jersey | New Mexico | New York | North Carolina  |  North Dakota | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Pennsylvania | Rhode Island  |  South Carolina | South Dakota | Tennessee | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia Washington | West Virginia | Wisconsin | Wyoming | Virtual Museums

Clinking any links below will open the site in a new browser window.



Alabama

Anniston Museum of Natural History
Birmingham Museum of Art
Huntsville Museum of Art
Mobile Museum of Art
Museum of Mobile
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts



Alaska

Alaska State Museum (Juneau)
Anchorage Museum of History & Art
University of Alaska Museum (Fairbanks)



Arizona

Amerind Foundation Museum (Dragoon)
Arizona State University Art Museum (Tempe)
Center for Creative Photography (Tucson)
Fleischer Museum (Scottsdale)
Museum of Northern Arizona (Flagstaff)
Phoenix Art Museum
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Scottsdale Center for The Arts
The Heard Museum (Phoenix)
Tucson Museum of Art



Arkansas

Arkansas Arts Center (Little Rock)
Arkansas State University Fine Arts Gallery (Jonesboro)



California

Northern California
Asian Art Museum (San Francisco)
Berkeley Art Museum
De Young Museum (San Francisco)
California Palace of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Oakland Museum of California
San Jose Museum of Art
Stanford University Museum of Art (Palo Alto)
San Jose Museum of Art
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco)

Middle California
Bakersfield Museum of Art
Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento)
Fresno Metropolitan Museum (Fresno)
Fresno Art Museum

Southern California
Autry Museum of Western Heritage
California African American Museum (Los Angeles)
California Museum of Photography (Riverside)
The Huntington - Library, Art Collections (San Marino)
The Riverside Municipal Museum
The J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles)
Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena)
Museum of Contemporary Art (San Diego)
Museum of Photographic Arts (San Diego)
San Diego Museum of Art
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Timken Museum of Art (San Diego)
UCLA Hammer Museum



Colorado

Aspen Art Museum
Denver Art Museum
Museum of Contemporary Art (Denver)



Connecticut

Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (Ridgefield)
The Bruce Museum (Greenwich )
Hill-Stead Museum (Farmington)
The Mattatuck Museum (Waterbury)
Mystic Seaport (Mystic)
New England Center for Contemporary Art (Brooklyn)
Stamford Museum and Nature Center
The Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford)
Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven)



Delaware

Delaware Art Museum (Wilmington)
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts (Wilmington)
University of Delaware University Gallery (Newark)



District of Columbia

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
The Corcoran Gallery of Art
National Museum of Women in the Arts
National Portrait Gallery
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
National Building Museum
National Gallery of Art
National Museum of African Art
National Museum of the American Indian
National Museum of American Art
The Phillips Collection
Renwick Gallery - Smithsonian American Art Museum



Florida

Bass Museum of Art (Miami)
Boca Raton Museum of Art
Harn Museum of Art (U of F, Gainesville)
Latin American Art Museum
Lowe Art Museum (U of Miami))
Miami Art Museum
Museum of Art (Fort Lauderdale)
Museum of Contemporary Art (North Miami)
Norton Museum of Art (West Palm Beach)
Ringling Museum of Art (Sarasota)
The Salvador Dali Museum (St. Petersburg )
The Southeast Museum of Photography (Daytona Beach)
St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts
The Art Museum at Florida International University (Miami Beach)



Georgia

Albany Museum of Art
Columbus Museum
High Museum of Art (Atlanta)
Michael C. Carlos Museum (Emory University, Atlanta)
Morris Museum of Art (Augusta)
Oglethorpe University Museum (Atlanta)
Telfair Museum of Art (Savannah)



Hawaii

Honolulu
Bishop Museum
The Contemporary Museum
Honolulu Academy of Arts
Ramsay Museum



Idaho

The Boise Art Museum



Illinois

Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago Athenaeum
David & Alfred Smart Museum of Art (U of Chicago)
The Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum
The Oriental Institute Museum (U of Chicago)
Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Spertus Museum
Terra Museum of American Art
Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art

Other Cities
Evanston Art Center (Evanston)
The Krannert Art Museum (U of I at Urbana-Champaign)
University Museum (Carbondale)



Indiana

Brauer Museum of Art (Valparaiso University)
Evansville Museum of Arts and Science
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art (Indianapolis)
Fort Wayne Museum of Art
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Richmond Art Museum
Snite Museum of Art (Notre Dame)
Swope Art Museum (Terra Haute)



Iowa

Blanden Memorial Art Museum (Fort Dodge)
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
Davenport Museum of Art
Des Moines Art Center
Sioux City Art Center
University of Iowa Museum of Art (Iowa City)



Kansas

Spencer Museum of Art (UK, Lawrence)
Wichita Art Museum
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art (WSU, Wichita)



Kentucky

J.B Speed Art Museum (Louisville)
University of Kentucky Art Museum (Lexington)



Louisiana

Alexandria Museum of Art
The Louisiana State Museum (New Orleans )
Meadows Museum (Centenary College, Shreveport)
New Orleans Museum of Art
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans)



Maine

Bates College Museum of Art (Lewiston)
Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Brunswick)
Colby Museum of Art (Waterville)
Farnsworth Art Museum (Rockland)
Portland Museum of Art
University of Maine Museum of Art (Orono)



Maryland

Baltimore
Academy of the Arts
American Visionary Art Museum
Baltimore Museum of Art
Contemporary Museum
The Walters Art Gallery



Massachusetts

Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge)
Museum of Fine Art (Springfield)
Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton)
Worcester Art Museum
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park (Lincoln)
Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston)
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (North Adams)
Mead Art Museum (Amherst College)
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Springfield Museum of Fine Arts (Springfield)
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown)



Michigan

The Detroit Institute of Arts
Grand Rapids Art Museum
Kresge Art Museum (MSU, East Lansing )
University of Michigan Museum of Art (Ann Arbor)



Minnesota

Minneapolis Institute of Art
Minnesota Museum of American Art (St. Paul)
Tweed Museum of Ar(U of M, Duluth)
Walker Art Center (Minneapolis)



Mississippi

George E. Ohr Arts and Cultural Center (Biloxi)
Mississippi Museum of Art (Jackson)
University of Mississippi Museums (Oxford)
Walter Anderson Museum of Art (Ocean Springs)



Missouri

Albrecht Kemper Museum of Art (St. Joseph)
Kansas City Museum
Museum of Art & Archaeology (U of M, Columbia)
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City)
The Saint Louis Art Museum
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City)



Montana

Museum of Fine Arts (U of MT, Missoula)



Nebraska

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery (U of N, Lincoln)
Joslyn Art Museum



Nevada

Nevada Museum of Art (Reno)



New Hampshire



New Jersey

The Art Museum (Princeton University)
Morris Museum (Morristown)
Museum of American Glass (Millville)
New Jersey State Museum (Trenton)
The Newark Museum



New Mexico

Albuquerque Museum of Art
Museum of Fine Arts (Santa Fe)
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe)
Museum of New Mexico (Santa Fe)



New York

New York City
Guggenheim Museum
International Center for Photography
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
The Frick Collection
Museum of the City of New York
New Museum of Contemporary Art
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

New York State
George Eastman House (Rochester)
Strong Museum (Rochester)
Albany Institute of History and Art (Albany)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo)
Brooklyn Museum of Art (Brooklyn) Corning Museum of Glass (Corning)
The Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse)
Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase)



North Carolina

Ackland Art Museum (U of NC, Chapel Hill)
Asheville Art Museum
Contemporary Art Museum (Raleigh)
Duke University Museum of Art
Mint Museum of Art (Charlotte)
North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh)
Weatherspoon Art Gallery (U of NC, Greensbor0)



North Dakota

Plains Art Museum (Fargo)



Ohio

Akron Art Museum
Cincinnati Art Museum
Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati)
Cleveland Museum of Art
Dayton Art Institute
Toledo Museum of Art



Oklahoma

Gilcrease Museum (Tulsa)
Oklahoma City Art Museum
Philbrook Museum of Art (Tulsa)
World Organization of China Painters Museum (Oklahoma City)



Oregon

Hallie Ford Museum of Art (Willamette University, Salem)
Portland Art Museum
Oregon Historical Society (Portland)
University of Oregon Museum of Art (Eugene)



Pennsylvania

Philadelphia
National Museum of American Jewish History
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Rosenbach Museum & Library
U of Pennsylvania Institute of Contemporary Art
Woodmere Art Museum

Other Cities
Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburg)
The Frick Art Museum (Pittsburg)
Erie Art Museum
James A. Michener Art Museum (Doylestown)
Juniata College Museum of Art (Huntingdon)
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art ( Altoona)
Susquehanna Art Museum (Harrisburg)



Rhode Island

Newport Art Museum
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art (Providence)



South Carolina

Charleston Museum
Gibbes Museum of Art (Charleston)
Greenville County Museum of Art
South Carolina State Museum (Columbia)



South Dakota



Tennessee

B. Carroll Reece Memorial Museum
Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art
Frank H. McClung Museum
Hunter Museum of American Art
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art (Memphis)
Knoxville Museum of Art
The Pathenon in Nashville
Tennessee State Museum (Nashville)



Texas

Houston
Museum of Fine Arts
Contemporary Arts Museum
The Menil Collection

Other Texas
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (Austin)
Austin Museum of Art
Amon Carter Museum (Fort Worth)
Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth)
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Dallas Museum of Art
San Antonio Museum of Art



Utah

Museum of Art (Brigham Young University, Provo)
Utah Museum of Fine Arts (U of Utah, Salt Lake City



Vermont

Elizabeth de C. Wilson Museum (Manchester)
Robert Hull Fleming Museum (U of VT, Burlington



Virginia

Art Museum of Western Virginia (Roanoke)
Contemporary Art Center of Virginia (Virginia Beach)
Chrysler Museum of Art (Norfolk)
Sweet Briar College Art Gallery
The Valentine Museum (Richmond)
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond)
University of Virginia Art Museum



Washington

Bellevue Art Museum
Frye Art Museum (Seattle)
Henry Art Gallery (U of W, Seattle)
Maryhill Museum of Art (Goldendale)
Museum of Northwest Art (La Connor)
Seattle Art Museum
Tacoma Art Museum
WSU Museum of Art (Pullman)
Museum of Glass (Tacoma)
The Washington State Historical Museum (Tacoma)
 



West Virginia
Art Museum of Western Virginia
Huntington Museum of Art



Wisconsin

Madison Art Center
Milwaukee Art Museum
Milwaukee Public Museum



Wyoming

The Buffalo Bill Historical Center (Cody)
National Museum of Wildlife Art (Jackson Hole)
University of Wyoming Art Museum (Laramie)



Virtual Museums

American Museum of Photography
Helios - National Museum of American Art

Other Museum Resources

World Wide Web Services - Museums
World Wide Arts Resources


Home  |  Galleries  |  Museums & Non Profit Art Centers

Art Collecting Information  |  Auctions  |  Books  |  Links  |  Contact Us

For Artist Resources visit Art-Support.com
 

Art-Support
Copyright © 1999-2002  by Dan Fear & Art-Support. All Right Reserved
Terms of Use   |   Privacy Policy   |   Contact Information
 Updated April 04, 2005