list of 20 top museums in the USA: 1. The Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York, NY 2. Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum - Washington, D.C. 3. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) - New York, NY 4. The Getty Center - Los Angeles, CA 5. The Art Institute of Chicago - Chicago, IL 6. The National Gallery of Art - Washington, D.C. 7. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Boston, MA 8. The Philadelphia Museum of Art - Philadelphia, PA 9. The Museum of Natural History - New York, NY 10. The Field Museum - Chicago, IL 11. The National WWII Museum - New Orleans, LA 12. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - San Francisco, CA 13. The National Museum of American History - Washington, D.C. 14. The Museum of Science and Industry - Chicago, IL 15. The de Young Museum - San Francisco, CA 16. The National Museum of African American History and Culture - Washington, D.C. 17. The Museum of Contemporary Art - Los Angeles, CA 18. The High Museum of Art - Atlanta, GA 19. The Cleveland Museum of Art - Cleveland, OH 20. The Museum of the American Revolution - Philadelphia, PA |