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. Medieval Torture Museum and American Museum Of Natural History sit in the high-growth half.
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Chain
YoY growth
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Medieval Torture Museum | ▲1 | +2.6% |
| 2 | American Museum Of Natural History | - | +2.0% |
| 3 | Intrepid Museum | ▲1 | +0.4% |
| 4 | Imagination Station | ▲2 | -1.8% |
| 5 | Williamsburg | ▲2 | -3.4% |
| 6 | Museum of Science and Industry | ▲2 | -13.5% |
| 7 | Hollywood Wax Museum | - | -14.9% |
| 8 | Space Center Houston | - | -23.1% |
| 9 | Denver Art Museum | ▼2 | -25.1% |
| 10 | Colonial Williamsburg | ▼3 | -45.7% |
| 11 | Sloomoo Institute | ▼3 | -60.6% |
- Ark Encounter
- Field Museum
- The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
- Smithsonian Institution
- Museum of the Bible
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- American Museum Of Natural History
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
2,958 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 30 of the 2,958 stores (1%); 2,743 of the 2,832 tracked chains have a single store here.
- Ark Encounter (1)
- Field Museum (1)
- The Children's Museum of Indianapolis (1)
- Smithsonian Institution (5)
- Museum of the Bible (2)
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1)
- American Museum Of Natural History (6)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Imagination Station 11
- 2 American Museum Of Natural History 6
- 3 Smithsonian Institution 5
- 4 Hollywood Wax Museum 4
- 5 Graceland 4
- 6 Sloomoo Institute 4
- 7 Space Center Houston 3
- 8 Intrepid Museum 3
- 9 Medieval Torture Museum 3
- 10 Colonial Williamsburg 3
- 11 Museum of Science and Industry 3
- 12 Williamsburg 3
- 13 Denver Art Museum 3
- 14 Philadelphia Museum of Art 2
- 15 World of Coca-Cola 2
- 16 Louisville Slugger 2
- 17 Conner Prairie Museum 2
- 18 Museum of Death 2
- 19 Museum of Science 2
- 20 Discovery World 2
- 21 Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation 2
- 22 USS Constitution Museum 2
- 23 Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum 2
- 24 Exploratorium 2
- 25 Museum of the Bible 2
- 26 North Carolina Transportation Museum 2
- 27 Cincinnati Museum Center 2
- 28 USS Midway Museum 2
- 29 Mystery Hill 2
- 30 Museum of Sex 2
- 31 High Desert Museum 2
- 32 Historic Hudson Valley 2
- 33 Clark Planetarium 2
- 34 Showcase of Citrus 2
- 35 Jamestown Settlement 2
- 36 California Academy of Sciences 2
- 37 The Museum 2
- 38 National Museum of the American Indian 2
- 39 Filoli 2
- 40 Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum 1
- 41 The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza 1
- 42 Boonshoft Museum of Discovery 1
- 43 National Geographic Museum 1
- 44 Hollywood Star Cars Museum 1
- 45 National Atomic Testing Museum 1
- 46 Museum of Life and Science 1
- 47 Brooklyn Museum 1
- 48 USS North Carolina Battleship 1
- 49 Fort Worth Museum of Science and History 1
- 50 Thomas Jefferson Foundation 1
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