NAICS 712110 · Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation
Museums: Business Name Ideas
48 name ideas, the official industry definition, and 5,442 U.S. business locations broken down by state.
What this industry covers
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the preservation and exhibition of objects of historical, cultural, and/or educational value.
Businesses classified here include
- Art galleries (except retail)
- Art museums
- Community museums
- Contemporary art museums
- Decorative art museums
- Fine arts museums
- Galleries, art (except retail)
- Halls of fame
- Herbariums
- Historical museums
- Human history museums
- Interactive museums
- Marine museums
- Military museums
- Mobile museums
- Multidisciplinary museums
- Museums
- Natural history museums
- Natural science museums
- Observatories (except research institutions)
- Planetariums
- Science and technology museums
- Sports halls of fame
- Traveling museum exhibits
- War museums
- Wax museums
Definition and examples from the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS 712110), U.S. Census Bureau.
Name ideas for museums
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Name words that fit, with their meanings
U.S. business numbers
Locations by number of employees nationwide
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022. Counts cover employer establishments (businesses with paid employees); self-employed owners without staff are not included. Small establishments with 1–4 employees include those that reported no paid employees in mid-March.
Top states for museums
- California 509 locations
- New York 460 locations
- Texas 361 locations
- Florida 245 locations
- Pennsylvania 229 locations
- Ohio 197 locations
- Massachusetts 175 locations
- Illinois 168 locations
- Minnesota 149 locations
- Wisconsin 144 locations
All 51 states
- Alabama (56)
- Alaska (31)
- Arizona (72)
- Arkansas (42)
- California (509)
- Colorado (112)
- Connecticut (88)
- Delaware (26)
- District of Columbia (28)
- Florida (245)
- Georgia (107)
- Hawaii (24)
- Idaho (39)
- Illinois (168)
- Indiana (113)
- Iowa (98)
- Kansas (127)
- Kentucky (54)
- Louisiana (67)
- Maine (80)
- Maryland (73)
- Massachusetts (175)
- Michigan (132)
- Minnesota (149)
- Mississippi (44)
- Missouri (102)
- Montana (58)
- Nebraska (61)
- Nevada (39)
- New Hampshire (41)
- New Jersey (71)
- New Mexico (46)
- New York (460)
- North Carolina (137)
- North Dakota (34)
- Ohio (197)
- Oklahoma (79)
- Oregon (96)
- Pennsylvania (229)
- Rhode Island (27)
- South Carolina (58)
- South Dakota (48)
- Tennessee (101)
- Texas (361)
- Utah (30)
- Vermont (38)
- Virginia (126)
- Washington (143)
- West Virginia (22)
- Wisconsin (144)
- Wyoming (35)