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Which state has the most museums? 🖼️

1Guess
Which states have the most museums? Tap them most-to-least.

Tapping assigns 1→4 in order

I bet… New York — museum capital of the world!
2Answer
The real order is…
    So close! California edges New York for the most museums — and the top three states together hold well over a thousand of them.
    📚 Background A close race of culture giants: California edges New York for the most museums, with Texas third. Between them, just three states hold well over a thousand museums — imagine visiting a different one every weekend for 25 years. (U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns)
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    I bet… New York — museum capital of the world!
    3Compare
    Museums (by state, 2022)
    California #1 509 museums
    Highest: California (509 museums); lowest shown here: West Virginia (22 museums).

    Note: museum businesses — art, science, history and more — each location counted once. 2022, U.S. Census Bureau.

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    : 2022
    Census County Business Patterns 2022: museums (NAICS 712110), establishments by state (2026-07-26) — Official published establishment counts (a business location with paid employees counts once, whatever its size; the committed raw file holds the API values verbatim with the NAICS code).
    ↳ On the Census CBP data (data.census.gov or api.census.gov/data/2022/cbp), filter NAICS 712110 (Museums) and read ESTAB (number of establishments) for 2022 by state.