Design Museums in the United States
Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Smithsonian American Art Museum, the nation's first collection of American art, is an unparalleled record of the American experience. The collection captures the aspirations, character and imagination of the American people throughout three centuries. The American Art Museum is the home to one of the largest and most inclusive collections of American art in the world.
Category Art Museums
Museum of Design Atlanta
MODA's mission is to advance the understanding and appreciation of design as the convergence of creativity and functionality through exhibitions, education, and programming for visitors of all ages.
Category Design Museums
National Academy
Founded in 1825 by Samuel F. B. Morse, Thomas Cole, and Asher B. Durand, the National Academy is the only institution of its kind that integrates a museum, art school, and association of artists and architects - the National Academicians.
Category Art Museums
Cranbrook Art Museum
Cranbrook Art Museum presents original exhibitions and educational programming on modern and contemporary architecture, art, crafts, and design.
Category Art Museums
Museum of the Moving Image
The Museum of the Moving Image is dedicated to educating the public about the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media and to examining their impact on culture and society. It achieves these goals by maintaining the nation's largest permanent collection of moving image artifacts and by offering exhibitions, film screenings, lectures, seminars, and other education programs.
Category Animation Museums
National Building Museum
The National Building Museum is America's leading cultural institution devoted to the history and impact of the built environment.
Category Architecture Museums
Katonah Museum of Art
The Katonah Museum of Art, through innovative exhibition and education programs, promotes the understanding and enjoyment of the visual arts for diverse audiences. The Museum presents exhibitions that explore ideas about art, culture and society -- past and present.
Category Art Museums
High Museum of Art
With its renowned collection of classic and contemporary art and award-winning architecture by Richard Meier and Renzo Piano, the High Museum of Art has grown from its origins in a stately home on Peachtree Street to become the leading art museum in the southeastern United States.
Category Art Museums
Mullin Automotive Museum
The Mullin Automotive Museum pays homage to the art deco and machine age design eras (1918-1941) that produced exquisite art and magnificent automobiles.
Category Car Design Museums
Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Founded in 1984 as the Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMoA), the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is the only non-collecting museum in Southern California and one of a few kunsthalles in the United States. ICA LA's mission is to support art that sparks the pleasure of discovery and challenges the way we see and experience the world, ourselves, and each other.
Category Art Museums
ICA Miami
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) offers year-round free and open access to the most innovative art of our time in the Miami Design District.
Category Art Museums
Elmhurst Art Museum
Elmhurst Art Museum, located just 14 miles from downtown Chicago and one block from the Elmhurst Union Pacific West Metra Station, is the cultural center of DuPage County and showcases the visual arts of our time.
Category Art Museums
Parrish Art Museum
The Parrish Art Museum - the oldest art museum on Long Island- opened to the public in Southampton, New York, in 1898. The Museum's collection includes the work of many of the most important artists who have lived and worked in the region.
Category Art Museums
Bruce Museum
The Bruce Museum is a community based, world-class institution highlighting art, science and natural history in more than a dozen changing exhibitions annually. The permanent galleries feature the natural sciences that encompass regional to global perspectives.
Category Art Museums
Museum of California Design
Founded in 1999 by Bill Stern and a group of like-minded Angelenos, the Museum of California Design is the only organization exclusively dedicated to exhibitions that document the full range of California's exceptional creativity in commercial design. In addition to its critically acclaimed exhibitions, each year the Museum singles out a California individual or company for their often underrecognized contributions to American design and presents them with their Henry Award, which was designed by Charles Hollis Jones.
Category Design Museums
Cincinnati Art Museum
Located in scenic Eden Park, the Cincinnati Art Museum features an unparalleled art collection of more than 60,000 works spanning 6,000 years. In addition to displaying its own broad collection, the Museum also hosts several national and international traveling exhibitions each year.
Category Art Museums
The Branch
The Branch elevates awareness of the transformative power of architecture and design.
Category Architecture Museums
Bronx Museum of the Arts
The flagship cultural institution of the Bronx, founded in 1971, The Bronx Museum of the Arts focuses on 20th-century and contemporary art from its home on the Grand Concourse, a distinctive contemporary landmark designed by the internationally-renowned firm Arquitectonica.
Category Art Museums
Philbrook Museum of Art
Philbrook Museum of Art is the premier cultural institution in the city of Tulsa and a statewide leader in the cultural life of Oklahoma. It is distinguished by nationally recognized gardens, exhibitions, quality collections, and innovative educational programming.
Category Art Museums
MFA
Museum of Fine Arts is one of the most comprehensive art museums in the world; the collection encompasses nearly 450,000 works of art.
Category Art Museums
Clyfford Still Museum
Sited just west of the Denver Art Museum in the burgeoning Golden Triangle Museum District, the Clyfford Still Museum will accommodate galleries for the legendary artist's work, including some 2,400 paintings, works on paper, and several sculptures that have not been accessible since the artists death 25 years ago.
Category Art Museums
Petersen Automotive Museum
The Petersen Automotive Museum is dedicated to the exploration and presentation of the automobile and its impact on American life and culture using Los Angeles as the prime example. Encompassing more than 300,000 square feet, its exhibits and lifelike dioramas feature more than 150 rare and classic cars, trucks and motorcycles.
Category Car Design Museums
Madsonian Museum of Industrial Design
The Madsonian Museum of Industrial Design hosts a collection of the world's best stuff. Our collection represents a lifetime of appreciation for and devotion to good design, displaying the best designed and most artistic manufactured objects.
Category Design Museums
Denver Art Museum
The Denver Art Museum is a private, non-profit, educational resource for Colorado. The mission of the museum is to enrich the lives of Colorado and Rocky Mountain residents through the acquisition, preservation, and presentation of art works in both the permanent collections and temporary exhibitions, and by supporting these works with exemplary educational and scholarly programs.
Category Art Museums
Design Museum of Chicago
The Design Museum of Chicago educates, inspires, and fosters innovation through design and exists to change how people, their families, and communities experience and engage with the world by making design approachable. We accomplish this by celebrating the breadth of design, creators, and disciplines; contextualizing the significance of design; and connecting diverse cultures and perspectives in the community with the design ecosystem. Our work is approachable, collaborative, passionate, surprising, and clever.
Category Design Museums
Morris Museum
Founded in 1913, the Morris Museum is an award-winning, community-based arts and cultural institution serving the public through its exhibitions in the arts, sciences and humanities. The Museum is home to the historic and internationally significant Murtogh D. Guinness Collection of Mechanical Musical Instruments and Automata.
Category Art Museums
The Textile Museum
The Textile Museum expands public knowledge and appreciation - locally, nationally and internationally - of the artistic merits and cultural importance of the world's textiles.
Category Textile Design Museums
Seattle Art Museum
SAM provides a welcoming place for people to connect with art and to consider its relationship to their lives. SAM is one museum in three locations: Seattle Art Museum downtown, Seattle Asian Art Museum at Volunteer Park, and the Olympic Sculpture Park on the downtown waterfront. SAM collects, preserves and exhibits objects from across time and across cultures, exploring the dynamic connections between past and present.
Category Art Museums
Noguchi Museum
Created by Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988), The Noguchi Museum opened in 1985, presenting a comprehensive collection of the artist's works in stone, metal, wood, and clay, as well as models for public projects and gardens, dance sets, and Akari Light Sculptures. The Museum--chartered as The Noguchi Museum--is housed in thirteen galleries within a converted factory building and encircles a garden containing major granite and basalt sculptures.
Category Art Museums
The Norton Museum of Art
The Norton Museum of Art is a major cultural attraction in Florida. The Museum is internationally known for its distinguished permanent collection featuring 19th and 20th century European and American art, Chinese, contemporary art and photography.
Category Art Museums