Trends · data through September 2026

Museums in New York

Iceflower tracks 188 stores from 173 museum chains in New York. American Museum Of Natural History grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Intrepid Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
173
Tracked stores
188
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked museum chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. American Museum Of Natural History and Intrepid Museum sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 American Museum Of Natural History - +4.1%
2 Intrepid Museum - +2.4%
3 Metropolitan Museum of Art - -5.2%
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • American Museum Of Natural History
  • Metropolitan Museum
  • Corning Museum of Glass
  • The Strong National Museum of Play
  • National Museum of the American Indian
  • Museum of Modern Art
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

188 tracked store locations in New York. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 17 of the 188 stores (9%); 165 of the 173 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked leisure & travel stores here are museums, against 2% across the United States.

  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1)
  • American Museum Of Natural History (6)
  • Metropolitan Museum (1)
  • Corning Museum of Glass (1)
  • The Strong National Museum of Play (1)
  • National Museum of the American Indian (1)
  • Museum of Modern Art (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 American Museum Of Natural History 6
  • 2 Metropolitan Museum of Art 4
  • 3 Intrepid Museum 3
  • 4 Whitney Museum of American Art 2
  • 5 Historic Hudson Valley 2
  • 6 Williamsburg 2
  • 7 Storm King 2
  • 8 Museum of the Moving Image 2
  • 9 FASNY Museum of Firefighting 1
  • 10 OPUS 40 1
  • 11 Fraunces Tavern Museum 1
  • 12 Singer Castle 1
  • 13 Coney Island USA - Museum & Freak Show 1
  • 14 Burchfield Penney Art Center 1
  • 15 Poster House 1
  • 16 Women's Rights National Historical Park 1
  • 17 Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center 1
  • 18 Draper Hall 1
  • 19 Heroes of Baseball Wax Museum 1
  • 20 Queens County Farm Museum 1
  • 21 Schenectady History Museum 1
  • 22 Fire Island Lighthouse 1
  • 23 Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum 1
  • 24 Long Island Childrens Museum 1
  • 25 The Hyde Collection 1
  • 26 Museum of the City of New York 1
  • 27 The Rockwell Museum 1
  • 28 Museum of Broadway 1
  • 29 American Italian Heritage Museum 1
  • 30 Utica Children's Museum 1
  • 31 Erie Canal Museum 1
  • 32 Explore & More Children's Museum 1
  • 33 Wtc Oculus 1
  • 34 All Things Oz Museum 1
  • 35 Roger Tory Peterson Institute 1
  • 36 International Boxing Hall of Fame 1
  • 37 Paleontological Research Institute 1
  • 38 Orangetown Town 1
  • 39 Lake Placid Hall of Fame 1
  • 40 The AKC Museum of the Dog 1
  • 41 Museum of the Dog 1
  • 42 Smithsonian Institution 1
  • 43 Seneca-Iroquois National Museum 1
  • 44 Cradle of Aviation Museum 1
  • 45 Singer Castle Dark Island Tours 1
  • 46 Onondaga Historical Association 1
  • 47 Claryville Art Center 1
  • 48 Oneida Community Mansion House 1
  • 49 New Museum 1
  • 50 The City Reliquary 1

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