This article is a review of various American museum buildings. The following buildings are mentioned: National Gallery of Art, the Museum of Natural History, the Museum of American History, the Hirshhorn of Wash. D.C.; Whitney, Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan and Guggenheim in New York; Walker in Minneapolis; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Art Institute, the Field Museum, and the Museum of Science and Industry of Chicago; the Los Angeles County Museum, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena of the Los Angeles area; the University Art Museum, Berkeley, and the Oakland Museum of Northern California; the Denver Art Museum; the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art and the Kimball Art Museum of Fort Worth.