List of most-visited museums

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See also: List of most-visited art museums and List of most-visited museums by region

This is a list of the most-visited museums in the world, per annual attendance statistics. Many museums have not reported 2023 figures as of February 2024. These museums show their 2022 attendance.

Total museum attendance in 2023 continued to recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, although attendance for most museums remained lower than before 2020. Among the top 100 art museums in 2022, total attendance was 141 million visitors, double the number in 2021 and three times the number for 2020, but still well below the 2019 figure of 230 million visitors.

Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
Metropolitan Museum, New York City
Vatican Museums, Vatican City
Natural History Museum, London
British Museum, London
National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C., United States
Tate Modern, London, England
National Museum of Korea, Seoul, South Korea
Guangdong Museum, Guangzhou, China
Mevlana Museum, Konya, Turkey
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France

Most-visited museums in 2023 and 2022

Name Location Visitors in 2023 or 2022
France Louvre Paris, France 8,900,000 (2023)
Vatican City Vatican Museums Vatican City 6,800,000 (2023)
United Kingdom British Museum London, United Kingdom 5,820,860 (2023)
United Kingdom Natural History Museum London, United Kingdom 5,688,608(2023)
United States Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City, United States 5,400,000 (2023)
France Musée d'Orsay Paris, France 5.2 million (including Musée de l'Orangerie) (2023)
United Kingdom Tate Modern London, United Kingdom 4,742,038 (2023)
United States National Museum of Natural History Washington, D.C., United States 4,400,000 (2023)
South Korea National Museum of Korea Seoul, South Korea 4.18 million (2023)
France Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle Paris, France 3.8 million (2023)
United States National Air and Space Museum Washington, D.C., United States 3,100,000 (2023)
Spain Prado Museum Madrid, Spain 3,209,285 (2023)
Russia State Hermitage Museum Saint Petersburg, Russia 3,273,753 (2023)
United Kingdom National Gallery London, United Kingdom 3,096,508 (2023))
United Kingdom Victoria and Albert Museum London, United Kingdom 3,110,000 (2023)
Italy Galleria degli Uffizi Florence, Italy 2,717,857 (2023)
United States Museum of Modern Art New York City, United States 2,839,509 (2023)
Mexico National Museum of Anthropology Mexico City, Mexico 2,636,352 (2023)
Mexico Museo Nacional de Historia Mexico City, Mexico 2,456,825 (2023)
United States Smithsonian Museum of American History Washington, D.C., United States 2,100,000 (2023)
Spain Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Bilbao, Spain 1,324,000 (2023)
China Guangdong Museum Guangzhou, China 3,359,700 (2022)
Turkey Mevlana Museum Konya, Turkey 3,352,505 (2022)
Russia State Russian Museum Saint Petersburg, Russia 2,900,000 (2023)
Taiwan National Museum of Marine Science and Technology Keelung, Taiwan 2,582,444
United Kingdom London Science Museum London, United Kingdom 2,334,930
China Chinese Aviation Museum Beijing, China 2,300,000
Taiwan National Museum of Natural Science Taichung, Taiwan 2,299,808
Germany Topography of Terror Berlin, Germany 2,100,000
Hong Kong M+ Hong Kong 2,034,331
China Opium War Museum Dongguan, China 2,025,800
France Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie Paris, France 1,992,823
United Kingdom National Museum of Scotland Edinburgh, United Kingdom 1,973,751
Russia State Tretyakov Gallery Moscow, Russia 1,910,000
Taiwan National Taiwan Science Education Center Taipei, Taiwan 1,878,504
Taiwan National Science and Technology Museum Kaohsiung, Taiwan 1,875,372
South Korea National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul, South Korea 1,806,641
Netherlands Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands 1,766,084
United States California Science Center Los Angeles, United States 1,694,000
China National Museum of China Beijing, China 1,630,911
United Kingdom Royal Museums Greenwich London, United Kingdom 1,628,580
China Nanjing Museum Nanjing, China 1,610,000
China Zhejiang Museum of Natural History Hangzhou, China 1,581,263
Australia National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne, Australia 1,580,303
China Jianchuan Museum Cluster Chengdu, China 1,538,143
United States Houston Museum of Natural Science Houston, United States 1,520,000
Japan Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Tokyo, Japan 1,509,970
China Changzhou Museum Changzhou, China 1,508,229
Germany Humboldt Forum Berlin, Germany 1,500,000
Taiwan Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts Kaohsiung, Taiwan 1,461,406
Greece Acropolis Museum Athens, Greece 1,451,727
China China Science and Technology Museum Beijing, China 1,431,189
Italy Galleria dell'Accademia Florence, Italy 1,428,369
China Suzhou Museum Suzhou, China 1,417,412
China Chengdu Museum Chengdu, China 1,404,735
China Shanghai Science and Technology Museum Shanghai, China 1,403,179
Japan The National Art Center, Tokyo Tokyo, Japan 1,400,096
France Louis Vuitton Foundation Paris, France 1,500,000 (2023)
Japan Tokyo National Museum Tokyo, Japan 1,372,132
Poland National Museum in Kraków Kraków, Poland 1,365,425
Brazil Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil São Paulo, Brazil 1,364,208
Netherlands Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands 1,364,023
Japan National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo, Japan 1,350,000
Austria Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Austria 1,345,617
China Tianjin Natural History Museum Tianjin, China 1,320,752
Spain Palacio de Cristal del Retiro Madrid, Spain 1,318,823
France Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations Marseille, France 1,300,000 (2023)
United Kingdom Scottish National Gallery Edinburgh, United Kingdom 1,277,230
Singapore National Gallery Singapore Singapore 1,262,189
Spain Museo Reina Sofía Madrid, Spain 1,253,183

Criteria

This list includes art museums, cultural museums, history museums, natural history museums, and science museums with an attendance of over 1,250,000 people in 2022, but does not include archaeological sites, historical monuments, or most palace museums. For example, the Forbidden City, Kremlin, and Palace of Versailles are not included, though the Louvre and Hermitage are included.

Due to differences in reporting across regions, there is some variation in the time periods for which figures are reported. Figures for North America and continental Europe are generally calendar-year figures, while most figures for Britain and the Asia-Pacific are fiscal year figures, from April through March.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Includes visitors to the Udvar-Hazy Center.
  2. ^ Does not include visitors to the main Reina Sofía museum.
  3. ^ Does not include visitors to the Palacio de Cristal del Retiro.

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