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# NY Museum Attendance & Twitter Followers
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/ny-museum-twitter/
- Published: 2011-05-30T17:21:44.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:40:58.000Z
- Description: @MuseumNerd, that anonymous art personality on Twitter, has blogged an interesting graphic that lists the attendance to New York museums, their Twitter following, and how they measure up.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, #image-position-hidden, Museums, New York, Social Media, Twitter, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-17 09:23 (2009-2011)

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@MuseumNerd, that anonymous art personality on Twitter, has [blogged an interesting graphic](http://museumnerd.tumblr.com/post/5837624748/nerdgraphic?ref=hyperallergic.com) that lists the attendance to New York museums, their Twitter following, and how they measure up.

I’m not sure what the ratio tells us — not much, really — and I don’t think it’s accurate to equate a museum visitor with a Twitter follower, but it is interesting and gives a good snapshot of the city’s museum world and their level of Twitter engagement.

Some notable WTFs and takeaways:

- There’s a Tibetan Museum ([@tibetanmuseum](http://twitter.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com#!/tibetanmuseum)) in Staten Island!?!?!
- The Merchant House ([@merchantshouse](http://twitter.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com#!/merchantshouse)) museum only gets 6,000 visitors (sad) and has 103 Twitter followers (though we just checked today and it was already at 156, that’s a lot of growth in one month).
- The Hispanic Society ([@hsamuseum](http://twitter.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com#!/hsamuseum)) only gets 25,000 visitors a year? An institution with works by El Greco and Diego Velázquez can’t muster more?
- The Metropolitan Museum is the king with 5.4 million visitors.
- The Bronx Museum and the Brooklyn Museum get the same number of visitors? That can’t be right.
- The Noguchi Museum does quite a respectable number for a small institution in Queens.
- The Theodore Roosevelt home museum has the most difficult Twitter handle to remember: [@trbirthplacenps](http://twitter.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com#!/trbirthplacenps) #timeforachange?

Also, you can always follow [@museumnerd](http://twitter.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com#!/museumnerd) on Twitter, if you’re not already.