Which state has the most museums?
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Answer
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) (opens in a new tab)
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Museums (by state, 2022)
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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| Rank | State | Value |
|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | 509 museums |
| #2 | New York | 460 museums |
| #3 | Texas | 361 museums |
| #4 | Florida | 245 museums |
| #5 | Pennsylvania | 229 museums |
| #6 | Ohio | 197 museums |
| #7 | Massachusetts | 175 museums |
| #8 | Illinois | 168 museums |
| #9 | Minnesota | 149 museums |
| #10 | Wisconsin | 144 museums |
| #11 | Washington | 143 museums |
| #12 | North Carolina | 137 museums |
| #13 | Michigan | 132 museums |
| #14 | Kansas | 127 museums |
| #15 | Virginia | 126 museums |
| #16 | Indiana | 113 museums |
| #17 | Colorado | 112 museums |
| #18 | Georgia | 107 museums |
| #19 | Missouri | 102 museums |
| #20 | Tennessee | 101 museums |
| #21 | Iowa | 98 museums |
| #22 | Oregon | 96 museums |
| #23 | Connecticut | 88 museums |
| #24 | Maine | 80 museums |
| #25 | Oklahoma | 79 museums |
| #26 | Maryland | 73 museums |
| #27 | Arizona | 72 museums |
| #28 | New Jersey | 71 museums |
| #29 | Louisiana | 67 museums |
| #30 | Nebraska | 61 museums |
| #31 | Montana | 58 museums |
| #31 | South Carolina | 58 museums |
| #33 | Alabama | 56 museums |
| #34 | Kentucky | 54 museums |
| #35 | South Dakota | 48 museums |
| #36 | New Mexico | 46 museums |
| #37 | Mississippi | 44 museums |
| #38 | Arkansas | 42 museums |
| #39 | New Hampshire | 41 museums |
| #40 | Idaho | 39 museums |
| #40 | Nevada | 39 museums |
| #42 | Vermont | 38 museums |
| #43 | Wyoming | 35 museums |
| #44 | North Dakota | 34 museums |
| #45 | Alaska | 31 museums |
| #46 | Utah | 30 museums |
| #47 | Rhode Island | 27 museums |
| #48 | Delaware | 26 museums |
| #49 | Hawaii | 24 museums |
| #50 | West Virginia | 22 museums |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau (2022)
Sources
Data as of: 2022
Census County Business Patterns 2022: museums (NAICS 712110), establishments by state (opens in a new tab) (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.