The most popular museums in USA in year 2006-2007 were:
1. Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C with 5.8 million annual visitors who came to see more than 125 million natural science specimens and cultural artifacts, from insects to dinosaurs to Canela Indian body adornment photographs
2. Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, Washington D.C.
5 million annual visitors who came to see the original Wright brothers' 1903 Flyer, Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, and the Apollo 11 command module.
3. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. With 4.69 million annual visitors, the museum's highlights ranged from Leonardo da Vinci's Ginevra de' Benci to an Andrew Goldsworthy sculpture, Roof.
4. Metropolitan Museum, NY with 4.5 million annual visitors who came to see the Met's stores of art with more than two million works.
5. American Museum of Natural History, NY with 4 million annual visitors who came to see record of world history, from dinosaur fossils to the human genome
in the 45 permanent exhibit halls on a 18-acre campus, located in Theodore Roosevelt Park on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
Popular Museums in USA :
6. National Museum of American History with 2.4 million annual visitors to see exhibits on subjects as diverse as domestic furnishings to advertising to transportation.
7. Museum of Modern Art, New York with 2.22 Million annual visitors who came to see more than 150,000 architectural models and drawings, drawings, prints, photographs, paintings, sculptures and design objects.
8. Field Museum, Chicago, IL with 2.1 million annual visitors to see collection of World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. The Darwin exhibition highlights the Beagle voyager's achievements.
9. Museum of Science, Boston with 2.01 million annual visitors features more than interactive exhibits, such as the 2 1/2 million volt Van de Graaff generator in Elihu Thomson Theater of Electricity.
Popular Museums in USA :
10. Ellis Island Immigration Museum, New York with 1.67 million annual visitors who come to see the Statue of Liberty and the immigration depot.
11. Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian with 1.6 million (tie) annual visitors to see Native heritage spread over more than 10,000 years with
collection of cultural, historical, aesthetic and spiritual objects.
12. De Young Museum, San Francisco with 1.6 million (tie) annual visitors showcases American art of last four centuries and native Americas, Africa, and the Pacific art forms.
13. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. With 1.5 million annual visitors attempts to preserve the disquieting memories of 6 million Holocaust victims and their beloved ones and friends and strangers who helped them. The museum is one of the more popular US museums.
14. California Science Center, Los Angeles, CA with 1.4 million annual visitors is known for its periodic premieres
15. Chicago Museum of Science and Industry with 1.38 annual visitors has exhibits like The Coal Mine, Baby Chick Hatchery, U-505 Submarine and The Pioneer Zephyr as well as the only remaining building from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
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