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Top 25 Contemporary art museums based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 1,626 contemporary art museums headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 30,201 professional contacts across them, including 10,098 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers contemporary art museums headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
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The 25 largest contemporary art museums based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,461 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Museum of Modern Art connects people from around the world to the art of our time.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 898 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The MFA is open.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 450 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Whitney seeks to be the defining museum of 20th- and 21st-century American art.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 448 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Located in the heart of Houston's Museum District, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is a dynamic cultural complex comprising two gallery buildings, a sculpture garden, visitors…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 447 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Art transforms lives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 430 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1937, the Solomon R.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 416 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Denver Art Museum has been a leader in educational programming for more than two decades.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 385 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 383 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Fine Arts Museums welcome more than 1.5 million visitors annually to enjoy an ambitious schedule of special exhibitions and education programs along with our world-class…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 304 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Located in the vibrant Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) ranks among the leading art institutions in the country and is distinguished by its…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 276 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1799 in Salem, Massachusetts, 15 miles from Boston, the Peabody Essex Museum is the oldest continuously operating museum in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 271 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Established in 1895 by Andrew Carnegie, Carnegie Museums is a collection of four dynamic, distinctive museums: Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Kamin…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 243 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 1979, we are the only artist-founded museum in Los Angeles.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 232 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Walker Art Center is a catalyst for the creative expression of artists and the active engagement of audiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 216 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago offers exhibitions of the most thought-provoking art created since 1945.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 214 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We share extraordinary works of art, reveal their compelling stories, and create meaningful experiences that grow and inspire our community.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 207 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Located in scenic Eden Park, the Cincinnati Art Museum features an unparalleled art collection of more than works spanning years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 200 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1977, the New Museum is a leading destination for new art and new ideas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 198 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Encounter superb works of modern and contemporary art at The Phillips Collection, an internationally recognized museum in Washington's vibrant Dupont Circle neighborhood.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 193 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Since its founding in 1936, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston has shared the pleasures of reflection, inspiration, imagination, and provocation that contemporary art offers…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 186 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Worcester Art Museum creates transformative programs and exhibitions, drawing on its exceptional collection of art.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 174 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Nestled in the heart of Atlanta's Midtown, the High Museum of Art is home to world-class art, architecture, and creativity in the Southeast.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 168 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Shed is a new cultural institution of and for the 21st century.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 167 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Eighty galleries house The Newark Museum of Art’s permanent collection.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 164 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PhxArt is the largest visual arts institution in the southwestern United States, with a collection of more than objects of American, Latin American, European, Asian, modern, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: contemporary art museums. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names contemporary art museums.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of contemporary art museums, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name contemporary art museums. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Contemporary art museums based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 1,626 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among contemporary art museums, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “contemporary art museums”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names contemporary art museums), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among contemporary art museums, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 10,098 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names contemporary art museums, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many contemporary art museums are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 1,626 contemporary art museums headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
The Museum Of Modern ART, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most contemporary art museums?
New York leads with 159 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (56) and Chicago (48).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 10,098 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,626 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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