Cities with the highest number of museums in the world
I know LA and NYC claimed 3x their numbers, so I’m assuming the researchers filtered out the nonsense like an ice cream museum. This is the 2020 release from World Cities Culture Forum but the latest data collected was from 2018. Since then, in LA at least, they’ve added The Broad Museum, are adding the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in the next couple weeks, and are currently building both George Lucas’ museum and OC’s Museum of Modern Art.
Not surprised about Paris topping the list. Having lived in central Paris, you happen upon so many discreetly placed museums while just wandering around. Edit: This is likely a partial list of available data that seems to exclude a number of cities. But still an interesting ranking of those cities that have participating/reported data. Total Number of Museums in Cities Worldwide 1 Paris 297 2 Moscow 261 3 Los Angeles 219 4 Seoul 201 5 London 192 6 Tokyo 173 7 Chengdu 150 8 Amsterdam 144 9 New York 140 10 Buenos Aires 132 10 San Francisco 132 12 Taipei 131 13 Shanghai 120 14 Brussels 93 15 Milan 90 16 Stockholm 86 17 Sydney 79 18 Bogotá 77 19 Helsinki 76 19 Toronto 76 21 Istanbul 71 22 Montréal 66 22 Warsaw 66 24 Dublin 62 25 Johannesburg 60 26 Madrid 59 27 Barcelona 57 28 Vienna 56 29 Singapore 54 30 Lisbon 44 30 Melbourne 44 32 Shenzhen 43 32 Zurich 43 34 Brasília 41 35 Nanjing 40 36 CapeTown 39 36 Hong Kong 39 38 Austin 38 39 Edinburgh 37 40 Rome 30 41 Oslo 21 42 Guangzhou 15 43 Lagos 12 World Cities Culture Forum http://www.worldcitiescultureforum.c...ber-of-museums |
Mexico City brags it has the most museums in the world. They even have a permanent sign claiming the title. Yet according to this ranking, they don't even have a dozen museums, and are way behind freaking Austin.
It's just not a topic that leads to any definitive rankings. What's a "museum"? If I have a display of old tires, it could technically be a "museum". Is a private art gallery a museum? Does it matter if they're selling holdings? I think, generally speaking, something is a "museum" if it's calls itself a "museum", which is obviously circular non-logic. Also, how can Rome only have 30 museums? I think I've been to nearly 30 museums in Rome. They have all kinds of exhibitions featuring Roman ruins or reconstructed (or now VR) Roman scenes. No Berlin? Berlin has a shit-ton of museums. No Washington DC (uh, Smithsonian?), or Chicago? Dumb list. |
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Here’s at least a dozen Chicago institutions that would qualify as major museums by any criteria. Public admission, specialized buildings, high-profile collections, etc. Chicago 1 Field Museum 2 Museum of Science and Industry 3 Art Institute 4 Museum of Contemporary Art 5 Chicago History Museum 6 Adler Planetarium 7 DuSable Museum 8 Museum of Mexican Art 9 Oriental Institute 10 National Hellenic Museum 11 Polish Museum 12 National Veterans Art Museum |
This doesn't seem to be right. I'm not really a museum person, so not the best judge of this, but seems like this is a partial list?
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I saw the Austin list. They must have Googled this list just as I did for the same number they came up with. It's a bit dubious but mostly legit.
https://www.google.com/search?q=list...hrome&ie=UTF-8 |
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Interesting..I'm surprised that Washington isn't on that list. You would think that they would have a fair share of national museums. Ottawa, a much smaller capital, has 7. Well 10 if the Mint, the Diefenbunker, and my Aunt's house count.
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It’s like 65 really or more just in the city limits The entire Chicagoland would put it in the hundreds easy. Hundreds depending on their criteria https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...ons_in_Chicago |
If Austin, TX had 38 museums, then Philadelphia and Boston must have 150-200 each.
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SF has 132 museums? I wouldnt have guessed more than 10.
There's the DeYoung, SFMOMA, California Academy of Sciences, the Legion of Honor, after that, what? Exploratorium? Alcatraz? Well, this sounds like an interesting way to spend a day, looking for museums in the city. |
Having one good museum is way better than having a hundred "museums".
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Dubious listicle is dubious.
Film at 11. |
Trip advisor lists 145 "museums" in Chicago although not all are actual museums and some are defunct/temporary and some are parts of other museums.
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attracti..._Illinois.html |
I think the Field Museum (Chicago) has to be the only one with its own beer:
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The Asian Art museum in SF is pretty cool. Haven't been to other Asian art museums, so can't really compare, but that one is definitely worth a visit.
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Horrific list. Probably the worst I've seen on SSP all year.
(1) First, is that a lot of notable cities are missing and the counts are off. Washington, D.C. is literally famous for its number of museums. Under this loose definition of "museum" then the District of Columbia alone has 83: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...shington,_D.C.. And that omits a lot of famous ones in the metro area, including:
Looking at the Wikipedia, I get:
(2) Who cares about the number of museums? I'd trade the bottom 200 museums in Washington, D.C. for the Art Institute of Chicago. Any ranking that treats the Met as equivalent to the Tollkeeper's Cottage Museum of Toronto deserves to be laughed out of the room. (3) To the point above, there needs to be a better handle on what qualifies as a museum. Most tourists, even in a city like Paris, will gravitate to no more than 10 museums, who alone handle 95% of tourist traffic. A better benchmark is what does the public decide is quality enough to be worth 2-3 hours of their time? Personally, I prefer the Ranker listing of museums, since it better passes the smell test even with the sample bias. Below are the Top 50 museums in the USA according to the Ranker list. I think it's more methodologically useful to create a point system where the #1 museum is worth 100 points, #2 is worth 99 points, etc, and #100 is worth 1 point. Add them all up and see which city does best. Rinse and repeat for science museums, and niche museums. ATLANTA High Museum of Art (#47) BOSTON Harvard Art Museums (#35) Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (#24) Museum of Fine Arts (#6) Worcester Art Museum (#44) BUFFALO Albright–Knox Art Gallery (#36) CHICAGO Art Institute of Chicago (#2) CINCINNATI Cincinnati Art Museum (#33) CLEVELAND Cleveland Museum of Art (#4) DALLAS-FORT WORTH Dallas Museum of Art (#42) Kimbell Art Museum (#19) [Fort Worth] DENVER Denver Art Museum (#43) DETROIT Detroit Institute of Arts (#9) FAYETTEVILLE Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (#20) [Bentonville] HOUSTON Menil Collection (#46) Museum of Fine Arts (#18) INDIANAPOLIS Indianapolis Museum of Art (#27) KANSAS CITY Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (#10) LOS ANGELES Getty Center (#12) Los Angeles County Museum of Art (#16) Norton Simon Museum (#29) MILWAUKEE Milwaukee Art Museum (#32) MINNEAPOLIS Minneapolis Institute of Arts (#14) Walker Art Center (#28) NEW YORK Brooklyn Museum (#40) The Cloisters (#23) Frick Collection (#17) Guggenheim Museum (#25) Metropolitan Museum of Art (#1) Museum of Modern Art (#5) Whitney Museum of American Art (#34) Yale University Art Gallery (#39) [New Haven] PHILADELPHIA Barnes Foundation (#15) Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (#48) Philadelphia Museum of Art (#7) PITTSBURGH Carnegie Museum of Art (#26) RALEIGH North Carolina Museum of Art (#49) RICHMOND Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (#21) ROCHESTER Memorial Art Gallery (#50) SAINT LOUIS Saint Louis Art Museum (#8) SAN FRANCISCO Legion of Honor (#37) San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (#38) TOLEDO Toledo Museum of Art (#11) VIRGINIA BEACH Chrysler Museum of Art (#45) [Norfolk] WASHINGTON-BALTIMORE American Art Museum (#13) Baltimore Museum of Art (#31) [Baltimore] Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (#41) National Gallery of Art (#3) The Phillips Collection (#22) Walters Art Museum (#30) [Baltimore] (4) The source data is from museum associations, some of which are city, some are metro area, some are even provincial. So the data provided itself isn't even apples-to-apples. Rubbish bin. |
new york has a museum with a meteorite from oregon there. is the largest ever found in the united states and the sixth-largest in the world.
theres so many cool things in the ocean, lost cities. |
^^ two things jump out at me about that Ranker list of art museums.
1. Bos-Wash, Jesus Christ. 2. 5 of the top 10 are in the Midwest (Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis, Detroit, and KC). And little old Toledo is #11!!! It really shows the former wealth/clout of the region back when extremely wealthy industrialists who had way more money than they knew what to do with were building the impressive collections of those institutions in the late 19th/early 20th centuries. |
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