Popular Museums in USA

The popular museums in USA mostly belong to the categories of art, science, culture and history. The country has a huge history to itself. These museums have preserved the historical motifs or traditional items that are of relevance. Museum tours are simple to arrange. You can draw up a list of museums you want to explore and seek help from your local tourist guide.

Each of the museums would provide you with a guide book that has all relevant information about a particular site

Famous Art Museums in USA

USA is acclaimed for it various art museums and galleries. They showcase the greatest artworks of the modern as well as ancient artists. We have listed down few of them for you

Fine Arts Museums at San Francisco – This displays over a collection of 65,000 images. Most of the paintings are by famous American artists like Keith Haring, Norman Rockman and Andy Warhol.

Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York - The museum deals in exclusive glass paintings and other glass artworks. It has over 30,000 objects as collection.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art at New York – The museum has a huge collection of sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, architectural models, design objects that reflect excellence in USA’s art and culture.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – This is one of the well known museums in USA that caters to modern art. Rather it’s the only museum in west United States that displays such a wide range of contemporary art pieces.

UCR California Museum of Photography -This museum is totally dedicated to photography exhibitions. It also showcases an interesting collection of web and digital art online. The famous section is that of the historical photograph series.

Other well known art museums in USA that you can visit are:-

• The Museum of Modern Art at New York
• Fresno Metropolitan Museum at CA
• Guggenheim Museum at New York

Culture Museums in USA

USA is also well known for a list of culture and historical museums. Let us browse through some of the well known names. You can choose the ones you like from the list to visit.

Ableza’s Native American Virtual Cultural Center in San Jose – The museum contains elements that reflect the diverse culture of the Native American people.

American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts at California – This is a cultural center and a museum that is still under constriction. It explores and displays the food and wine tastes, preferences of the Americans and the American culture.

American military museum at El Monte – As the name suggests, this museum preserves some of the historical military equipments. The number is over 130 for the same. Some of the historical items are the trucks, contemporary jeeps, cannons, tanks and personnel carriers.

Bay Area Discovery Museum at Sausalito – This is a unique indoor/outdoor museum that is for children from 6 months – 8 years of age. The main attractions of the museum are the environmental and science exhibitions, hands-on-art, cultural events, festivals and performances.

Apart from this the other popular museums in USA that you can visit are:-

• Agua Caliente Cultural Museum at Palm Springs
• Autry Museum of Western Heritage at Los Angeles
• Bay Area Museum of Broadcast Arts at Berkeley
• California African-American Museum at Los Angeles
• Lawrence Hall of Science at Berkeley
• Museum of Paleontology, University of California at Berkeley
• Oakland Museum of California at Oakland
• San Diego Natural History Museum at San Diego
• San Jose Museum of Art at San Jose

Most of these museums and galleries in USA is open during the weekdays and closed on Sundays. They also remain closed in the public holidays decided by the government. The admission fees vary from one place to the other. Where as some has free entrance.

Last updated on 23/9/2010