Where does Museums sit on the thin-tail industry band?

Museums ranks #417 of 499 tracked industries by calendar-2024 contract dollars at $33.7M (TRACE · ARTS).

How did Museums move between 2019 and 2024?

Between calendar 2019 and 2024, Museums climbed from #441 to #417 of 499 ranked industries (CLIMBER); share of tracked industry dollars went from 0.0040% to 0.0045%. That is a 24-place move over 5 years.

How heavy is Museums within ARTS?

Sector 71 (Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation) placement uses the first two NAICS digits. Museums ranks #2 of 3 classified industries there (SECTOR-LED), taking 27.3% of $123.5M.

USAspending.gov · NAICS 712110 · Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation

Museums

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Thin-tail NAICS industry on the industries board — code 712110 in Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation.

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CY2024 awards: $33.7M
Corpus rank: #417 of 499
Award plate: TRACE
Sector: ARTS · SECTOR-LED

Museums federal industry awards

Museums is a thin-tail industry on the NAICS board at $33.7M CY2024 (#417 of 499).

Museums takes 27.3% of ARTS sector dollars in the calendar-2024 window, a heavy share within its two-digit NAICS sector. See /methodology/#naics.

Year-over-year change, 2019–2024

Across the calendar years on file, Museums’s annual contract dollars rose from $32.2M in 2023 to $33.7M in 2024. 4.4% vs 2023 The strongest year on file is 2020 at $46.9M.

Museums annual contract dollars, calendar 2019-2024

Calendar-year prime contract obligations by action date (award types A-D). Annual figures use the same NAICS classification basis as the CY2024 headline above.

Source: USAspending.gov spending_by_category

How Museums shows up on the thin-tail award band

$33.7M · #417 of 499 by CY2024 industry awards , thin-tail on the NAICS award board (same order as the industries listing). See methodology.

$33.7M under NAICS 712110 · #417 of 499 , TRACE · ARTS · SECTOR-LED · CLIMBER. 2019→2024: 441→417 of 499 (0.0040%→0.0045% of tracked industry dollars) ; #2/3 in ARTS. That is a 24-place move over 5 years. Nearest ABS peer: Lessors of Other Real Estate Pr… at $33.4M (TRACE).

Calendar-2024 actions under NAICS 712110 count as opportunity size, not firm revenue. This code carries a heavy share of its ARTS sector window. Populations, lag, and NAICS/SBA rules: methodology.

Source: USAspending.gov · U.S. Department of the Treasury

Thin-tail industry peers nationwide

Cross-sector peers from the USAspending NAICS extract: nearest thin-tail calendar-2024 award dollars and nearest sector-weight share. Not recommendations.

Closest CY2024 award dollars

Lessors of Other Real Estate Property $33.4M
All Other Miscellaneous Waste Management Servic… $34.0M
Administration of Education Programs $34.4M
Printing Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing $32.8M
Welding and Soldering Equipment Manufacturing $32.6M
Iron and Steel Forging $34.8M

Similar sector weight

Other Electronic 26.1% · $1.3B
Other Technical and Trade Schools 25.8% · $1.3B
Drugs and Druggists' Sundries Merchant Wholesal… 25.4% · $2.3B
Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and M… 29.7% · $1.5B
Other Warehousing and Storage 30.1% · $731.9M
Space Research and Technology 24.4% · $193.8M

Disclaimer: Data from USAspending.gov public records. For informational purposes only. Industry spending amounts are aggregated from contract awards and may not reflect the most current data. Always verify with official sources.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Compiled from USAspending.gov by the PlainFedContract editorial process.

Compiled by PlainFedContract, Government Agencies Editorial Process · August 14, 2026

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