This list includes some of the most famous art museums in the U.S.:

• Art Institute of Chicago ( Chicago, Illinois) Museum and art school.
  
  
• Birmingham Museum of Art ( Birmingham, Alabama) Largest municipal museum in the Southeast.
  
  
• Brooklyn Museum of Art ( Brooklyn, New York) One of the largest art institutions in the United States.
  
  
• George Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film ( Rochester, New York) The foremost museum of photography in the world.
  
  
• Metropolitan Museum of Art ( New York, New York) One of the largest art museums in the world.
  
  
• Museum of Contemporary Art ( Chicago, Illinois) One of the nation's largest facilities devoted to the art of our time.
  
  
• National Gallery of Art ( Washington, D.C.) One of the finest collections in the world illustrating major achievements in painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and works on paper.
  
  
• Philadelphia Museum of Art ( Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Unique among American museums in its integrated presentation of fine and applied arts from Asia, Europe, and the U.S.
  
  
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ( San Francisco, California) A jewel of the West Coast scene.
  
  
• Walters Art Gallery ( Baltimore, Maryland) Internationally known as one of the foremost art museums in the United States.
  
  
• Contemporary Arts Center ( Cincinnati, Ohio) One of the oldest, most active, and most adventuresome museums of contemporary art in the US.
  
  
• Denver Art Museum ( Denver, Colorado) The largest collection of art between Chicago and San Francisco.
  
  
• Guggenheim Museum ( Manhattan, New York) Modern art museum housed in a Frank Lloyd Wright designed building.
  
  
• Miami Art Museum (Miami, FL) Exhibits, collects, preserves and interprets international art of the western hemisphere.