TripAdvisor has announced its list of top museums in the U.S.

for 2016, including some you'll probably need to

add to your bucket list.

New York City and Washington, D.C. accounts for half of the top 10, but the others are from coast to coast, Florida
to New Orleans, Chicago and California.

"The winners are based on the quality and amount of reviews and opinions of museums from travelers on
TripAdvisor," spokesperson Ellie Botelho told me. Reviews were collected so some high profile openings last year
like the Broad in Los Angeles and the Whitney in New York weren't on the list.

How many have you visited?

1. Metropolitan Museum of Art -- New York City

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art

TripAdvisor's top museum in the world for 2 decades now, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is America's largest, as
TripAdvisor says,"home to Article source over two million works that span more than two million square feet"
including"can't-miss works from Rembrandt, Degas, van Gogh, Renoir, Manet, Monet, Picasso and more." Go now
and you can see Transitional Object (PsychoBarn) by Cornelia Parker, which is exactly what it sounds like: a
mashup of a traditional red barn with the Bates mansion from Psycho, the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller; see it
through Halloween, naturally.

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2. Art Institute of Chicago -- Chicago, Ill..

Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago

PROMOTED

In the heart of the Windy City, the Art Institute is home to recognizable masterpieces as Georges Seurat's
pointillist, Grant Wood's American Gothic and Edward Hopper's Nighthawks A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of
La Grande Jatte. Along with the Terzo Piano restaurant of the museum has inspiring views of Millennium Park and
the Chicago skyline. If art's not something, TripAdvisor points out,"Fans of Ferris Bueller's Day Off can recreate the
film's iconic scene among the museum's storied halls."

3. National 9/11 Memorial & Museum -- New York City

The National 911 Memorial & Museum

National 9/11 Memorial & Museum

TripAdvisor claims that this museum has received over four million visitors Even though it opened in 2014. Its main
exhibits cover the history of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and the attack on the World Trade Center
on February 26, 1993, focusing on the events leading up to, the day of and the planet since 9/11. The memorial
section uses touch-screen technology for remembrances of the victims. Throughout are artifacts and art, including
the new exhibition"Rendering the Unthinkable: Artists Respond to 9/11."

4. National WWII Museum -- New Orleans, La..

National WWII Museum

National WWII Museum

Go see the French Quarter, eat your beignets and listen to some jazz, but do not miss this expansive, six-acre
museum opened in 2000 (it's in a former mill for the boats used in the D-Day invasion). Begin by boarding a train
car to take you to the"front," and take in the Campaigns of Courage exhibit about the streets to Berlin and Tokyo.
You get to listen to their reminiscences; be sure to thank them for their service, listen to the 4-D movie Beyond All
Boundaries is narrated by Tom Hanks, and if you are really lucky, encounter veterans and can see vehicles and
vintage planes.

5. Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum -- Washington, D.C.

Every kid's favorite museum on the National Mall, Air & Space"is home to the world's biggest display of aviation
and space artifacts, including nearly two million photographs and 60,000 relics," says TripAdvisor, from the Wright
Brothers' 1903 Flyer through Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, the LM lunar module in the Apollo moon landings, as
well as the studio version of the Starship Enterprise from Star Trek. As at all Smithsonian Museums, admission is
free.

6. USS Midway Museum -- San Diego, Calif..

USS Midway Museum

USS Midway Museum

From 1945 to the First Gulf War on 1991, the USS Midway was one of the longest-serving aircraft carriers of
America. Now from its permanent home on San Diego Bay it houses over 60 exhibits (war room to galley, sleeping
quarters to brig) and 24-plus restored aircraft on its flight deck.

7. Getty Center -- Los Angeles, Calif..

Getty Center

Getty Center

The Getty adventure begins even before you ascend to its lofty perch atop a mountain - . Once in the main
complex of buildings, must-sees include Van Gogh's Irises, Rembrandt's Old Man in Military Costume, Monet's
Portal of Rouen Cathedral in the Morning Light and James Ensor's monumental Christ's Entry into Brussels, not to
mention world-class collections of photography, decorative arts and more. And do not neglect Robert Irwin's
stately yet garden of concentric circles with inspirational views across the L.A. basin. Though parking costs $15 per
car Entry is free.

8.

Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex

Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex

Approximately one hour from Orlando, on Florida's Space Coast, Kennedy Space Center's entry price is daunting
($50 for adults, $40 for kids ), but people can spend a full day viewing the Space Shuttle Atlantis and rockets in
their pavilions and the Rocket Garden, trying the flight simulator Space Shuttle Launch Experience and more. The
Astronaut Encounter program lets you and astronauts that are actual speak, and how often does that happen?
This November, a new section called Heroes and Legends will open, featuring the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame.

9. National Gallery of Art -- Washington, D.C.

National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art

A highlight of any trip to our nation's capital, the National Gallery shows pretty much every great of European art
history: Van Eyck, Durer, Manet, Monet, Cézanne, Dégas, John Constable, Rembrandt, Van Gogh and many more
the neoclassical West Building. The more modern East Building (pictured, by I.M. Pei) is set to reopen at the end of
the month featuring the contemporary art collection. TripAdvisor recommends visiting The Last Supper by Damien
Hirst, which it calls"a 13-print show that examines the intersection of medicine and faith," through the end of this
year.

10. American Museum of Natural History -- New York City

American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History

For generations of New Yorkers their first museum memory probably involved ogling the dinosaurs here, and
nearly a century and a half after its founding (in 1869), the museum continues to inspire in halls covering
biodiversity, mammals, the environment, birds, reptiles, amphibians, human origins and cultures, all of the way to
planetary science. TripAdvisor cites"over 32 million artifacts and specimens." The most recent addition to its
dinosaur collection is your 122-foot (37 meter) long Titanosaur, while a new 2-D and 3-D movie, Wonders of the
Arctic, screens through March 2, 2017.

Andrew Bender

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