A list of the best museums in the United States that focus predominantly on art (paintings, sculpture, glass/porcelain/ceramics, and other visual media) voted on by the Ranker community.
When voting, consider the comprehensiveness of a collection if it's...well... a comprehensive museum such as the Art Institute in Chicago or the comprehensiveness of the period it represents such as the Museum of Modern Art. If you feel you can judge the quality of a museum's collection, the museum's effectiveness in helping visitors understand what they're seeing, or other aspects that make that museum worthwhile, please do!
http://m.ranker.com/list/best-art-museums-in-the-united-states/admiralcrunch,
Art Institute of Chicago
Brooklyn Museum
A comprehensive art institute with a famous collection of Egyptian art, Pacific Islander art, and one of the most important collections of American art (especially 19th Century). Known also for its new collection of 20th Century Feminist art.
Detroit Institute of Arts
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY Considered one of the greatest collections of art from the Impressionist period forward.
National Gallery of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
New York, NY - focuses on impressionist, post-impressionist, and modern.
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, New York - focuses on modern and contemporary American art including living artists
Metropolitan Museum of Art