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This is a list of the most visited museums in each region in 2022, based upon the annual reports of museum attendance from the Art Newspaper Review, and from official national sources. If 2022 figures are not available, earlier figures are shown, with the year indicated.

Africa

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Asia

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Asia - Top twenty museums by number of visitors per year
Name City Visitors annually Country Year reported
National Museum of Korea Seoul 3,411,381  South Korea 2022[1]
National Museum of Natural Science Taichung 2,300,000  Taiwan 2022[2]
M+ Hong Kong 2,034,331  Hong Kong 2022[3]
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul 1,806,641  South Korea 2022[4]
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Tokyo 1,509,970  Japan 2022[5]
The National Art Center, Tokyo 1,400,096 2022[6]
Tokyo National Museum 1,372,132 2022[7]
National Gallery Singapore Singapore 1,262,189  Singapore 2022 [8]
National Museum of China Beijing 1,631,000  China 2022[9]
Shanghai Science and Technology Museum Shanghai 494,000 2022[10]
National Palace Museum[iii] Taipei 1,040,000  Taiwan 2022[11]
China Science and Technology Museum Beijing 1,431,000  China 2022[12]
Zhejiang Provincial Museum Hangzhou 874,000 2022[13]
National Taiwan Science Education Center Taipei 1,082,000  Taiwan 2020[14]
Shaanxi History Museum Xi'an 1,000,000  China 2020[15]
National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo 1,350,000  Japan 2022[16]
Shanghai Museum Shanghai 604,090  China 2020[17]
China Art Museum 2,550,000 2017[18]
Three Gorges Museum Chongqing 2,112,000 2017[19][20]
National Science and Technology Museum Kaohsiung 1,981,000  Taiwan 2017[20]
National Folk Museum of Korea Seoul 1,813,626  South Korea 2017[19]

Europe

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Europe - Top museums by number of visitors in 2022
Name City Visitors per year Country Year reported
Louvre Paris 7,726,321  France 2022[21]
Vatican Museums Vatican City 5,080,866  Vatican 2022[21]
Natural History Museum London 4,654,608  United Kingdom 2022[22]
British Museum 4,097,253 2022[21]
Tate Modern 3,883,160  United Kingdom 2022[21]
Musée d'Orsay Paris 3,270,182  France 2022[21]
Centre Pompidou 3,009,570 2022[21]
National Gallery London 2,727,119  United Kingdom 2022[21]
State Hermitage Museum Saint Petersburg 2,651,688  Russia 2022[21]
Museo del Prado Madrid 2,456,724  Spain 2022[21]
Victoria and Albert Museum London 2,370,261  United Kingdom 2022[21]
London Science Museum 2,324,580 2022[23]
Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie Paris 1,992,823  France 2022[21]
Tretyakov Gallery Moscow 1,910,000  Russia 2022[21]
Galleria degli Uffizi Florence 1,721,637  Italy 2022[21]
Reina Sofía Madrid 1,318,823  Spain 2022[21]
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam 1,766,084  Netherlands 2022[21]
Galleria dell'Accademia Florence 1,428,369  Italy 2022[21]
Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam 1,364,023  Netherlands 2022[21]

North America

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North America: Top museums in 2022
Name City Visitors per year Country Year reported
National Museum of Natural History Washington, D.C. 3,900,000  United States 2022[24]
National Gallery of Art 3,256,433 2022[25]
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City 3,208,832 2022[26]
Museum of Modern Art 2,190,440 2022[27]
Smithsonian Museum of American History Washington, D.C. 1,800,000 2022[28]
National Air and Space Museum (with Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center) 2,190,440 2022[29]
National Museum of African American History and Culture 1,200,000 2022[30]
Art Institute of Chicago Chicago 1,037,158 2022[31]
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles 867,322 2022[32]
Getty Center 989,302 2022[33]
Royal Ontario Museum Toronto 796,579  Canada 2022[34]
National Gallery of Canada Ottawa 165,854 2021-22[35]
National Museum of Anthropology Mexico City 1,494,587  Mexico 2022[36]
National Museum of History 1,486,379 2022[37]
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology Drumheller, Alberta 501,430  Canada 2022

South America

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South America
Name City Visitors per year Country Year reported
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Belo Horizonte 1,474,825  Brazil 2023[38]
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Rio de Janeiro 1,323,034 2023[38]
Museu Nacional da Republica Brasilia 935,168 2017[19]
Instituto Tomie Othake São Paulo 895,769 2017[19]
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo 880,000 2023[39]
Museu do Ipiranga 655,759 2023[40]
São Paulo Museum of Art 530,235 2023[41]
Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires Buenos Aires 515,000  Argentina 2023[42]

Oceania

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Name City Visitors per year Country Year reported
National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne 1,580,303  Australia 2022 [43]
National Gallery of Australia Canberra 1,021,983 2022[44]
Museum of New Zealand Wellington 863,129  New Zealand 2022 [45]
Queensland Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane 271,030  Australia 2020[46]
Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney 548,190 2020[46]
Australian Centre for the Moving Image Melbourne 1,316,000 2016[47]
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia Sydney 1,206,000 2017[19]

See also

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References

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  2. ^ TEA-AECOM Museum Index 2022, published June 2023
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  8. ^ Art Newspaper annual survey, March 2023
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  13. ^ TEA-AECOM Museum Index 2022, published June 2023
  14. ^ AECOM-TEA Museum Index 2020
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  47. ^ "Visitor Figures 2016" (PDF). The Art Newspaper Review. April 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2018.

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