The 10 Best Museums In The U.S. To Add In Bucket List

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Tenement Museum – New York City

The Tenement Museum in New York tells the tales of 1860s–1980s immigrants and migrants.

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International Spy Museum – Washington D.C.

The Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. has the biggest public collection of worldwide espionage artifacts.

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National Museum of the American Indian – Washington, D.C.

The National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., has one of the biggest collections of Western Hemisphere Native American artifacts, pictures, documents, and more.

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Mississippi Civil Rights Museum – Jackson, Mississippi

The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson offers eight rooms of interactive exhibits about persecuted black Mississippians and their quest for equality from 1945 to 1976.

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The National WWII Museum – New Orleans

The National WWII Museum, New Orleans' top attraction, explores why World War II took place, how the Allies triumphed,

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and what that victory means today via exhibits, human testimonies, and multimedia experiences in five galleries.

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Musical Instrument Museum – Phoenix, Arizona

The Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix displays over 8,000 instruments from 200 nations. Each work shows how music is a global language that can't be denied.

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Booth Western Art Museum – Cartersville. Georgia

Cartersville's Booth Western Art Museum has the nation's biggest permanent Western American art exhibit. Paintings, sculptures, photography, and more depict Western life.

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Bishop Museum – Honolulu, Hawaii

The Bishop Museum in Honolulu showcases 25 million historical, social, and natural relics from Hawaii.

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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – Washington, D.C.

The Holocaust Memorial Museum of the United States, located in Washington, D.C., recounts the Holocaust, which killed six million European Jews plus at least five million other prisoners of war.

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Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum – Oklahoma City

Visitors may read about the victims and survivors, as well as law enforcement's attempts to discover and apprehend the bombers and gather the evidence needed to convict them.