---
title: menus - GraphQL Admin
description: >-
  Retrieves navigation menus. Menus organize content into hierarchical
  navigation structures that merchants can display in the online store (for
  example, in headers, footers, and sidebars) and customer accounts.


  Each [`Menu`](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/objects/Menu)
  contains a handle for identification, a title for display, and a collection of
  [`MenuItem`](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/objects/MenuItem)
  objects that can be nested up to 3 levels deep. Default menus have protected
  handles that can't be modified.
api_version: 2026-01
api_name: admin
type: query
api_type: graphql
source_url:
  html: 'https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/queries/menus'
  md: 'https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/queries/menus.md'
---

# menus

query

Retrieves navigation menus. Menus organize content into hierarchical navigation structures that merchants can display in the online store (for example, in headers, footers, and sidebars) and customer accounts.

Each [`Menu`](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/objects/Menu) contains a handle for identification, a title for display, and a collection of [`MenuItem`](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/objects/MenuItem) objects that can be nested up to 3 levels deep. Default menus have protected handles that can't be modified.

## MenuConnection arguments

[MenuConnection!](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/connections/MenuConnection)

* after
* before
* first
* last
* query
* reverse
* sortKey

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## Possible returns

* edges
* nodes
* pageInfo

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## Examples

* ### menus reference