Museum directory

Museums in United States

207 museums holding antiquities, coins and archaeology collections.

Sky City Cultural Center
Acoma Pueblo — Gateway to a mesa-top city inhabited since 1150.

New York State Museum
Albany — The oldest state museum in America — New York archaeology and history.

Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
Albuquerque — Southwestern archaeology at the University of New Mexico.

Anchorage Museum
Anchorage — Alaska's largest museum — Arctic peoples, art, and history of the north.

Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Ann Arbor — Greco-Roman and Near Eastern finds.

Fernbank Museum of Natural History
Atlanta — Giant dinosaurs and Georgia's natural and cultural history.

Michael C. Carlos Museum
Atlanta — Egyptian, Nubian, and Classical antiquities.

Maine State Museum
Augusta — Maine archaeology, industry, and natural history.

Bullock Texas State History Museum
Austin — The story of Texas — including the recovered wreck of La Belle.

Meadowcroft Rockshelter
Avella — 19,000 years of use — among the oldest sites in North America.

Maryland Center for History and Culture
Baltimore — Maryland's founding documents and material culture.

Walters Art Museum
Baltimore — Ancient and medieval art.

Abbe Museum
Bar Harbor — Wabanaki history and culture beside Acadia National Park.

Capitol Park Museum
Baton Rouge — Louisiana's story from pirogues to Zydeco.

Logan Museum of Anthropology
Beloit — Teaching collection of remarkable depth.

High Desert Museum
Bend — Living history of the intermountain West.

Museum of Native American History
Bentonville — Ten thousand years of Native American artifacts in the Ozarks.

Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Berkeley — Millions of objects from California archaeology to ancient Egypt and Peru.

Birmingham Museum of Art
Birmingham — Alabama's largest art museum, with ancient Mediterranean, Asian, and Pre-Columbian galleries.

North Dakota Heritage Center
Bismarck — The state museum — from T. rex to Plains Nations history.

Edge of the Cedars State Park Museum
Blanding — The largest collection of Ancestral Puebloan pottery on display, at a pueblo site.

Idaho State Museum
Boise — Idaho's story from Indigenous nations to the frontier.

Museum of Fine Arts
Boston — Egyptian, Nubian, and Classical art.

Museum of the Rockies
Bozeman — One of the world's great dinosaur collections, plus Yellowstone-region history.

Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology
Bristol — Brown University's collection of Indigenous and world cultures.

Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn — Egyptian art collection.

Buffalo Museum of Science
Buffalo — Natural history and anthropology in a 1929 landmark.

Harvard Art Museums
Cambridge — Ancient Mediterranean collection.

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Cambridge — Harvard's Maya casts and world archaeology.

Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum
Canyon — Texas' largest history museum.

Nevada State Museum
Carson City — Nevada's mint building, with ichthyosaurs and Great Basin cultures.

Etowah Indian Mounds
Cartersville — Mississippian mound site with its museum of carved marble effigies.

The Charleston Museum
Charleston — Founded 1773 — often called America's first museum.

West Virginia State Museum
Charleston (WV) — West Virginia's history at the Culture Center.

Museum of the Cherokee People
Cherokee — 13,000 years of Cherokee history.

Wyoming State Museum
Cheyenne — Wyoming's frontier, wildlife, and deep past.

Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago — Ancient Mediterranean through modern art.

Field Museum
Chicago — Ancient Egypt, the Americas, and SUE the T. rex.

ISAC Museum (Oriental Institute)
Chicago — Ancient Near East and Egypt.

Hopewell Culture National Historical Park
Chillicothe — Monumental geometric earthworks — UNESCO.

Cincinnati Museum Center
Cincinnati — Museums of natural history and regional history in Union Terminal.

Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland — Greek, Roman, and Egyptian galleries.

Buffalo Bill Center of the West
Cody — Five museums of the American West — Plains Indians, firearms, and Yellowstone.

Cahokia Mounds
Collinsville — North America's greatest pre-Columbian city — a World Heritage mound complex.

South Carolina State Museum
Columbia — Four floors of art, history, and natural history in an old mill.

Ohio History Center
Columbus — Home of Hopewell and Adena masterpieces from Ohio's ancient earthworks.

Jeffers Petroglyphs
Comfrey — 7,000 years of carvings in red quartzite.

New Hampshire Historical Society
Concord — New Hampshire's history in a granite beaux-arts landmark.

Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
Coolidge — Four-storey Hohokam great house.

Fenimore Art Museum
Cooperstown — The Thaw collection of Native American art.

Corning Museum of Glass
Corning — The world's definitive glass museum — 3,500 years of glassmaking.

Crystal River Archaeological State Park
Crystal River — Six mounds and rare stelae on the Gulf coast.

Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas — Ancient Mediterranean art.

Perot Museum of Nature and Science
Dallas — Striking downtown museum of dinosaurs, gems, and science.

Putnam Museum
Davenport — One of the oldest museums west of the Mississippi — Egyptian mummies included.

The Henry Ford
Dearborn — American innovation at overwhelming scale.

Denver Art Museum
Denver — Outstanding Indigenous Arts of North America collection.

Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Denver — Rocky Mountain natural history, Egyptian mummies, and space science.

History Colorado Center
Denver — Colorado's story, told hands-on.

State Historical Museum of Iowa
Des Moines — Iowa's history museum, from prehistoric peoples to the present.

Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit — Encyclopedic collection from ancient Egypt to Diego Rivera's murals.

Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center
Dolores — Gateway to the densest archaeology in the US.

Mercer Museum
Doylestown — A concrete castle packed with 50,000 early-American tools and crafts.

Museum of Natural and Cultural History
Eugene — Oregon archaeology — including the world's oldest shoes.

Angel Mounds State Historic Site
Evansville — Fortified Mississippian town on the Ohio.

Museum of the North
Fairbanks — University of Alaska's collection: archaeology, gold-rush history, and mammoth ivory.

Conner Prairie
Fishers — Indiana living history along the White River.

Museum of Northern Arizona
Flagstaff — Colorado Plateau archaeology and Hopi art.

Kimbell Art Museum
Fort Worth — Antiquities and Asian art.

Florida Museum of Natural History
Gainesville — Florida archaeology, fossils, and the Calusa people.

Grand Rapids Public Museum
Grand Rapids — Anishinaabe history and a working carousel.

Winterville Mounds
Greenville — Ceremonial mound center of the ancient Mississippi Delta.

Effigy Mounds National Monument
Harpers Ferry (Iowa) — Bear and bird mounds above the Mississippi.

The State Museum of Pennsylvania
Harrisburg — Pennsylvania archaeology, industry, and a famous mammoth.

Montana Historical Society Museum
Helena — Montana's treasures, from buffalo-hide art to Charles Russell.

Bishop Museum
Honolulu — The world's finest Hawaiian and Pacific cultural collections.

Iolani Palace
Honolulu — The only royal palace on US soil.

Houston Museum of Natural Science
Houston — One of America's most-visited museums — paleontology, gems, and Egypt.

Museum of Fine Arts
Houston — Antiquities collection.

Mastodon State Historic Site
Imperial — Where people and mastodons met — the Kimmswick site.

Eiteljorg Museum
Indianapolis — American Indian and Western art in downtown Indianapolis.

Indiana State Museum
Indianapolis — Ice Age megafauna, mound builders, and Hoosier history.

Two Mississippi Museums
Jackson — Mississippi's history and civil rights museums side by side.

Historic Jamestowne
Jamestown — The actual 1607 fort site, still being excavated.

Sealaska Heritage Institute
Juneau — Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian art and culture.

Nelson-Atkins Museum
Kansas City — Ancient and Asian art.

Favell Museum
Klamath Falls — 100,000 Native American artifacts and arrowheads.

McClung Museum
Knoxville — Tennessee archaeology and ancient Egypt at UT Knoxville.

Aztalan State Park
Lake Mills — Mississippian outpost with rebuilt stockade.

Michigan History Museum
Lansing — Michigan from copper-country prehistory to the auto age.

Zwaanendael Museum
Lewes — Delaware's Dutch founding, shipwrecks, and coastal history.

University of Nebraska State Museum
Lincoln — Elephant hall and Great Plains natural history.

Historic Arkansas Museum
Little Rock — Frontier Arkansas history on its original city block.

Bandelier National Monument
Los Alamos — Cliff homes carved into volcanic tuff.

Autry Museum of the American West
Los Angeles — The West, real and imagined.

J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles — Antiquities at the Getty Villa.

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles — Dinosaurs to California history — the largest natural history museum in the western U.S.

Frazier History Museum
Louisville — History museum on Whiskey Row with arms and Kentucky stories.

Speed Art Museum
Louisville — Kentucky's oldest art museum, antiquities to contemporary.

Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park
Macon — Earth lodge with its original 1,000-year-old floor.

Wisconsin Historical Museum
Madison — Wisconsin history on the Capitol Square.

Mashantucket Pequot Museum
Mashantucket — Vast Native American museum with an immersive recreated Pequot village.

Museum of Science & History
Memphis — Memphis's natural and cultural history in the Pink Palace.

Mesa Verde Visitor and Research Center
Mesa Verde — Cliff dwellings of the Ancestral Pueblo — UNESCO.

HistoryMiami Museum
Miami — South Florida from Tequesta to today.

Milwaukee Public Museum
Milwaukee — Famous walk-through dioramas and world cultures.

Minneapolis Institute of Art
Minneapolis — 90,000 works spanning five millennia, free to all.

Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village
Mitchell — Active dig under one roof on the prairie.

Alabama Department of Archives and History
Montgomery — The state's memory, free to all.

Vermont History Museum
Montpelier — Vermont's story beside the gold-domed State House.

Grave Creek Mound
Moundsville — One of the largest Adena burial mounds, with its museum.

Moundville Archaeological Park
Moundville — One of America's great Mississippian mound cities, with its site museum.

Town Creek Indian Mound
Mount Gilead — Reconstructed Mississippian ceremonial center.

Mystic Seaport Museum
Mystic — Whaling ships and a rebuilt seafaring town.

Chaco Culture National Historical Park
Nageezi — The great houses of the Chacoan world — UNESCO.

Tennessee State Museum
Nashville — Tennessee from Mississippian temple mounds to modern times.

Grand Village of the Natchez Indians
Natchez — Ceremonial mounds of the Natchez people.

Makah Museum
Neah Bay — The Ozette village finds — a buried whaling town.

Yale Peabody Museum
New Haven — Natural history and ancient cultures, renewed.

Yale University Art Gallery
New Haven — Dura-Europos and ancient art.

New Orleans Museum of Art
New Orleans — Ancient American, African, and European collections in City Park.

American Museum of Natural History
New York — One of the world's great museums — halls of gems, dinosaurs, and human cultures.

The Met Cloisters
New York — Medieval Europe in rebuilt monastery stones.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York — Greek, Roman, and Egyptian art.

Newark Museum of Art
Newark — New Jersey's largest museum — a famous Tibetan collection among much else.

Chrysler Museum of Art
Norfolk — Ancient glass and sculpture.

Sam Noble Museum
Norman — Oklahoma natural history — with the world's largest Apatosaurus.

First Americans Museum
Oklahoma City — 39 tribal nations tell their own story.

The Durham Museum
Omaha — History museum in Omaha's magnificent art-deco Union Station.

Mille Lacs Indian Museum
Onamia — Ojibwe history told with the Mille Lacs Band.

Fort Ancient Earthworks
Oregonia — Hilltop enclosure of the Hopewell world — UNESCO.

Lost City Museum
Overton — Ancestral Puebloan pueblo sites rescued from Lake Mead's rise.

Getty Villa
Pacific Palisades — Greek and Roman antiquities.

Parkin Archeological State Park
Parkin — Village likely visited by de Soto in 1541.

Serpent Mound
Peebles — The great effigy serpent, a quarter-mile long.

Penn Museum
Philadelphia — Near Eastern and Mediterranean archaeology.

Heard Museum
Phoenix — World-renowned museum of American Indian art and history.

S'edav Va'aki Museum
Phoenix — Hohokam platform mound and canals in the city.

South Dakota State Historical Society Museum
Pierre — Plains Indian culture and Dakota Territory history.

Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park
Pinson — Sauls Mound — 72 feet of Woodland-era earth.

Poverty Point World Heritage Site
Pioneer — Monumental earthworks built 3,400 years ago by hunter-gatherers.

Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Pittsburgh — Dippy the Diplodocus and great Egyptian and mineral halls.

Plimoth Patuxet Museums
Plymouth — 1627 English village and Patuxet homesite.

Oregon Historical Society
Portland — Oregon's history museum on the Park Blocks.

Strawbery Banke Museum
Portsmouth (NH) — Four centuries in one waterfront neighborhood.

Princeton University Art Museum
Princeton — Ancient Mediterranean art.

RISD Museum
Providence — Ancient through contemporary art at the Rhode Island School of Design.

North Carolina Museum of Art
Raleigh — Egyptian, Greek, and Roman galleries in a park of art.

North Carolina Museum of History
Raleigh — 14,000 years of North Carolina, from Paleo-Indian points to the present.

The Journey Museum
Rapid City — Black Hills geology, Lakota culture, and pioneer history.

Pawnee Indian Museum
Republic — Earth-lodge floor preserved where it was excavated.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Richmond — Ancient art collection.

Virginia Museum of History & Culture
Richmond — Four centuries of Virginia history on Arthur Ashe Boulevard.

Rochester Museum & Science Center
Rochester — Seneca archaeology and regional history collections.

Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park
Royal — Rhino herd preserved in volcanic ash, in place.

California State Indian Museum
Sacramento — California Native cultures and basketry.

Science Museum of Minnesota
Saint Paul — Natural history and anthropology on the Mississippi riverfront.

Peabody Essex Museum
Salem — Maritime trade and Asian export art.

Natural History Museum of Utah
Salt Lake City — Utah's dinosaurs and Great Basin peoples in the Rio Tinto Center.

San Antonio Museum of Art
San Antonio — Greek, Roman, and Egyptian art.

The Alamo
San Antonio — The 1718 mission and 1836 battlefield.

Witte Museum
San Antonio — Texas deep time — White Shaman rock art and Hill Country nature.

Museum of Us
San Diego — Anthropology museum in Balboa Park's landmark California Tower.

Asian Art Museum
San Francisco — 6,000 years of Asian art in one building.

de Young Museum
San Francisco — Art of the Americas, Africa, and Oceania.

Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum
San Jose — Egyptian antiquities.

Bowers Museum
Santa Ana — World cultures — Pacific, Asian, and Pre-Columbian — in Orange County.

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Santa Barbara — Chumash hall and a blue whale skeleton.

Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
Santa Fe — The Southwest's native arts and archaeology on Museum Hill.

The Ringling
Sarasota — Art museum, circus museum, and Venetian-style palace on Sarasota Bay.

Toltec Mounds Archeological State Park
Scott — Arkansas' tallest ancient mounds.

Penobscot Marine Museum
Searsport — Maine's oldest maritime museum.

Burke Museum
Seattle — Washington's natural history and Northwest Coast Indigenous art.

Fremont Indian State Park
Sevier — Largest known Fremont village's finds and rock art.

Shelburne Museum
Shelburne — 39 buildings of Americana, plus a steamboat.

Spiro Mounds Archaeological Center
Spiro — The great Mississippian mound city of the west.

Illinois State Museum
Springfield — Illinois natural history and archaeology across 500 million years.

Lightner Museum
St. Augustine — Gilded Age collections in a grand hotel.

Jefferson Patterson Park & Museum
St. Leonard — Maryland's archaeology park on the Patuxent.

Missouri History Museum
St. Louis — St. Louis history from Mississippian mounds to the 1904 World's Fair.

Saint Louis Art Museum
St. Louis — Free encyclopedic museum in Forest Park — strong ancient and Oceanic art.

Knife River Indian Villages
Stanton — Hidatsa earth-lodge towns on the Missouri.

Frontier Culture Museum
Staunton — Old World farms rebuilt beside their American heirs.

Old Sturbridge Village
Sturbridge — 1830s New England, alive and working.

Suquamish Museum
Suquamish — People of Chief Seattle, in their own words.

Washington State History Museum
Tacoma — Pacific Northwest history beneath grand brick arches.

Mission San Luis
Tallahassee — Reconstructed Apalachee-Spanish capital.

Tampa Museum of Art
Tampa — Greek and Roman antiquities.

Toledo Museum of Art
Toledo — Ancient glass and antiquities.

Kansas Museum of History
Topeka — Kansas from Indigenous plains cultures to the railroad age.

New Jersey State Museum
Trenton — Archaeology, fine art, and natural history under one roof.

Arizona State Museum
Tucson — The Southwest's oldest anthropology museum — unmatched Hohokam and pottery collections.

Gilcrease Museum
Tulsa — Unrivaled art and artifacts of the American West and Indigenous nations.

Herrett Center for Arts and Science
Twin Falls — Americas archaeology and a planetarium.

Spurlock Museum
Urbana — World cultures and antiquities.

Ganondagan State Historic Site
Victor — Seneca town site with a full bark longhouse.

Dumbarton Oaks
Washington — Byzantine and Pre-Columbian collections in a Georgetown estate.

National Archives Museum
Washington — The founding documents themselves.

National Museum of American History
Washington — The nation's attic, from flags to engines.

National Museum of Asian Art
Washington — The Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler galleries of Asian art.

National Museum of Natural History
Washington — The Smithsonian's treasure house — Hope Diamond, mummies, and mammals.

National Museum of the American Indian
Washington — Smithsonian museum of Native nations of the Americas.

Wickliffe Mounds
Wickliffe — Mississippian village at the rivers' meeting.

Colonial Williamsburg Art Museums
Williamsburg — American decorative arts and folk art in the restored colonial capital.

Jamestown Settlement
Williamsburg — Museum and living history of America's first permanent English colony.

Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
Winterthur — Premier collection of early American decorative arts, in a du Pont estate.

Worcester Art Museum
Worcester — Roman mosaics from Antioch and a full medieval chapter house.

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