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.
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Virtual Museums
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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)