The 30 Best Art Museums in the US

There are more than 35,000 active museums in the United States, according to the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Narrow the aperture to New York State and there are over 600 institutions; in New York City alone, nearly 200. Add to that the growing number of so-called private museums founded by major collectors—among them Emily Wei Rales and Mitchell Rales’s Glenstone—and the landscape becomes even more crowded.With all that in mind, the editors of ARTnews felt it was