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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.[1]

Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
Metropolitan Museum, New York City
Vatican Museums, Vatican City, Rome
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

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!Name Visitors in 2023 or 2022 City Country
Louvre 8,900,000 (2023)[2] Paris  France
Vatican Museums 6,800,000 (2023)[3] Vatican City in Rome  Vatican
British Museum 5,820,860 (2023)[4] London  United Kingdom
Natural History Museum 5,688,608 (2023)[5] London  United Kingdom
Metropolitan Museum of Art 5,400,000 (2023)[6] New York City  United States
Musée d'Orsay 5.2 million (including Musée de l'Orangerie) (2023)[7] Paris  France
Tate Modern 4,742,038 (2023)[8] London  United Kingdom
National Museum of Natural History 4,400,000 (2023)[9] Washington, D.C.  United States
National Museum of Korea 4.18 million (2023)[10] Seoul  South Korea
Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle 3.8 million (2023)[11] Paris  France
National Air and Space Museum[a] 3,100,000 (2023)[12] Washington, D.C.  United States
Prado Museum 3,209,285 (2023)[14] Madrid  Spain
State Hermitage Museum 3,273,753 (2023)[15] Saint Petersburg  Russia
National Gallery 3,096,508 (2023)[16]) London  United Kingdom
Victoria and Albert Museum 3,110,000 (2023)[17] London  United Kingdom
Galleria degli Uffizi 2,717,857 (2023)[18] Florence  Italia
Museum of Modern Art 2,839,509 (2023)[19] New York City  United States
National Museum of Anthropology 2,636,352 (2023) Mexico City  Mexico
Museo Nacional de Historia 2,456,825 (2023) Mexico City  Mexico
Smithsonian Museum of American History 2,100,000 (2023)[20] Washington, D.C.  United States
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao 1,324,000 (2023)[21] Bilbao  Spain
Guangdong Museum 3,359,700 (2022)[22] Guangzhou  China
Mevlana Museum 3,352,505 (2022)[23] Konya  Turkey
State Russian Museum 2,900,000 (2023)[24] Saint Petersburg  Russia
National Museum of Marine Science and Technology 2,582,444[25] Keelung  Taiwan
London Science Museum 2,334,930[26] London  United Kingdom
Chinese Aviation Museum 2,300,000[27] Beijing  China
National Museum of Natural Science 2,299,808[25] Taichung  Taiwan
Topography of Terror 2,100,000[28] Berlin  Germany
M+ Hong Kong  Hong Kong
Opium War Museum 2,025,800[29] Dongguan  China
Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie 1,992,823[30] Paris  France
National Museum of Scotland 1,973,751[26] Edinburgh  United Kingdom
State Tretyakov Gallery 1,910,000[1] Moscow  Russia
National Taiwan Science Education Center 1,878,504[25] Taipei  Taiwan
National Science and Technology Museum 1,875,372[25] Kaohsiung  Taiwan
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art 1,806,641[1] Seoul  South Korea
Rijksmuseum 1,766,084[1] Amsterdam  Netherlands
California Science Center 1,694,000[31] Los Angeles  United States
National Museum of China 1,630,911[32] Beijing  China
Royal Museums Greenwich 1,628,580[26] London  United Kingdom
Nanjing Museum 1,610,000[33] Nanjing  China
Zhejiang Museum of Natural History 1,581,263[34] Hangzhou  China
National Gallery of Victoria 1,580,303[1] Melbourne  Australia
Jianchuan Museum Cluster 1,538,143[35] Chengdu  China
Houston Museum of Natural Science 1,520,000[31] Houston  United States
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum 1,509,970[1] Tokyo  Japan
Changzhou Museum 1,508,229[36] Changzhou  China
Humboldt Forum 1,500,000[1] Berlin  Germany
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts 1,461,406[25] Kaohsiung  Taiwan
Acropolis Museum 1,451,727[1] Athens  Greece
China Science and Technology Museum 1,431,189[37] Beijing  China
Galleria dell'Accademia 1,428,369[1] Florence  Italy
Suzhou Museum 1,417,412[38] Suzhou  China
Chengdu Museum 1,404,735[39] Chengdu  China
Shanghai Science and Technology Museum 1,403,179[40] Shanghai  China
The National Art Center, Tokyo 1,400,096[1] Tokyo  Japan
Louis Vuitton Foundation 1,500,000 (2023)[41] Paris  France
Tokyo National Museum 1,372,132[1] Tokyo  Japan
National Museum in Kraków 1,365,425[1] Kraków  Poland
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil 1,364,208[1] São Paulo  Brazil
Van Gogh Museum 1,364,023[1] Amsterdam  Netherlands
National Museum of Nature and Science 1,350,000[31] Tokyo  Japan
Kunsthistorisches Museum 1,345,617[1] Vienna  Austria
Tianjin Natural History Museum 1,320,752[42] Tianjin  China
Palacio de Cristal del Retiro 1,318,823[b][1] Madrid  Spain
Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations 1,300,000 (2023) Marseille  France
Scottish National Gallery 1,277,230[1] Edinburgh  United Kingdom
National Gallery Singapore Singapore  Singapore
Museo Reina Sofía 1,253,183[c][1] Madrid  Spain

Criteria

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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

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Notes

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  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.

References

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