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Top 25 Photography museums based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 135 photography museums headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 1,868 professional contacts across them, including 373 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers photography 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 20, 2026.
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The 25 largest photography museums based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 803 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The International Center of Photography (ICP) is the world’s leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1947, the George Eastman Museum is the world’s oldest photography museum and one of the largest film archives in the United States, located on the historic Rochester…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Aperture is a nonprofit publisher that leads conversations around photography worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Soho Photo Gallery is New York City’s longest operating member-run photography gallery, and is now located in Chelsea at 539 West 23rd Street, just steps from The High Line.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PCNW is a place for everyone to explore the photographic arts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Houston Center for Photography is an organization dedicated to the art of photography.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Penumbra Foundation is a NYC-based nonprofit arts organization committed to promoting a broad understanding of the contemporary photographic medium.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Griffin Museum of Photography is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the art of photography.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MISSION STATEMENT FotoFest's mission is to bring together a global vision of art and cross-cultural exchange with a commitment to social issues, community involvement, and the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MOPA@SDMA is a laboratory for new ideas, a forum for self-expression and creativity, and an institution dedicated to the constantly evolving world of photography and lens-based…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts is a museum dedicated to exhibiting important photographic arts as central to contemporary life and culture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 2014, we designed the National Gallery of Fine Art collection to inspire conservation of our natural resources while raising public awareness of the environmental…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mission: As a non-profit, CPAC is dedicated to fostering the understanding and appreciation of excellent photography in all forms and concepts through exhibitions, education and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fraenkel Gallery is a contemporary art gallery based in San Francisco.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Farmani Group (iawardsinc) is one of the leading organizations curating and promoting photography, design and architecture across the globe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Light Work was founded as an artist-run, non-profit organization in 1973.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “FotoFocus is a nonprofit organization created to celebrate and champion photography as the medium of our time through programming that ignites a dialogue between contemporary…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “THE PALM BEACH PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTRE is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to the enrichment of life through exhibitions, community programs, workshops and other…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “San Francisco's space for provocative photography since 1974.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Fahey/Klein Gallery is devoted to the enhancement of the public's appreciation of the medium of photography through the exhibition and sale of 19th and 20th century rare…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since its inception over twenty years ago, The Howard Greenberg Gallery has built a vast and ever-changing collection of some of the most important photographs in the media.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MUUS Collection is an American 20th century photography collection that preserves, researches, and reveals work from the archives it owns and represents.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PhotoAlliance is a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco and dedicated to supporting the understanding, appreciation and creation of contemporary photography.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 2001, the Bruce Silverstein Gallery’s principle focus is the representation of an international roster of contemporary artists as well as established artists of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Image Flow aims to celebrate photography in all its forms and to provide a platform for photographers of all levels to create work, exchange ideas, and to innovate the medium…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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: photography 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 photography museums.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of photography museums, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name photography 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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Photography museums based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 20, 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 135 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 photography 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 “photography 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 photography 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 photography 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, 373 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 20, 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.
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 photography 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 photography museums are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 135 photography 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?
International Center Of Photography, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most photography museums?
New York leads with 20 headquartered companies, followed by Houston (5) and Los Angeles (5).
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 373 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 135 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 20, 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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