ARTnews Names America's 30 Best Art Museums

Key facts

• List compiled by editors of ARTnews and Art in America
• Based on permanent collection breadth, exhibition program, and architecture
• Includes 30 museums across the US
• Baltimore Museum of Art has over 1,200 Matisse works
• Seattle Art Museum features Olympic Sculpture Park
• MFA Houston has deep Latin American art holdings
• Barnes Foundation displays art without wall text
• Clark Art Institute received 331 artworks from Aso O. Tavitian Foundation
• Kimbell Art Museum designed by Louis Kahn
• Yale University Art Gallery is America's first university art museum
• NMAAHC opened in 2016 with 40,000 objects
• Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth designed by Tadao Ando
• High Museum tripled nonwhite audience from 15% to 45% (2015-2017)
• Crystal Bridges founded by Alice Walton in 2011
• Guggenheim Museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco include Legion of Honor and de Young
• Detroit Institute of Arts has Diego Rivera murals
• Walker Art Center manages Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum suffered largest art heist in 1990
• Cleveland Museum of Art holds Picasso's La Vie (1903)
• Frick Collection has three Vermeer paintings
• Philadelphia Museum of Art houses Duchamp's Étant donnés
• Buffalo AKG Art Museum expanded in 2023
• LACMA opened David Geffen Galleries in April 2024
• Menil Collection designed by Renzo Piano
• Dia Beacon opened in 2003 in former factory
• Whitney Museum founded in 1931 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
• John Michael Kohler Arts Center features Art Preserve
• Getty Center holds collection from 6000 BCE to today
• Editors acknowledge New York skew in selection