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List of most-visited museums

Summary

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
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 edit

Name Location Visitors in 2023 or 2022
  Louvre Paris, France 8,900,000 (2023)[2]
  Vatican Museums Vatican City 6,800,000 (2023)[3]
  British Museum London, United Kingdom 5,820,860 (2023)[4]
  Natural History Museum London, United Kingdom 5,688,608(2023)[5]
  Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City, United States 5,400,000 (2023)[6]
  Musée d'Orsay Paris, France 5.2 million (including Musée de l'Orangerie) (2023)[7]
  Tate Modern London, United Kingdom 4,742,038 (2023)[8]
  National Museum of Natural History Washington, D.C., United States 4,400,000 (2023)[9]
  National Museum of Korea Seoul, South Korea 4.18 million (2023)[10]
  Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle Paris, France 3.8 million (2023)[11]
  National Air and Space Museum[a] Washington, D.C., United States 3,100,000 (2023)[12]
  Prado Museum Madrid, Spain 3,209,285 (2023)[14]
  State Hermitage Museum Saint Petersburg, Russia 3,273,753 (2023)[15]
  National Gallery London, United Kingdom 3,096,508 (2023)[16])
  Victoria and Albert Museum London, United Kingdom 3,110,000 (2023)[17]
  Galleria degli Uffizi Florence, Italy 2,717,857 (2023)[18]
  Museum of Modern Art New York City, United States 2,839,509 (2023)[19]
  National Museum of Anthropology Mexico City, Mexico 2,636,352 (2023)
  Museo Nacional de Historia Mexico City, Mexico 2,456,825 (2023)
  Smithsonian Museum of American History Washington, D.C., United States 2,100,000 (2023)[20]
  Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Bilbao, Spain 1,324,000 (2023)[21]
  Guangdong Museum Guangzhou, China 3,359,700 (2022)[22]
  Mevlana Museum Konya, Turkey 3,352,505 (2022)[23]
  State Russian Museum Saint Petersburg, Russia 2,900,000 (2023)[24]
  National Museum of Marine Science and Technology Keelung, Taiwan 2,582,444[25]
  London Science Museum London, United Kingdom 2,334,930[26]
  Chinese Aviation Museum Beijing, China 2,300,000[27]
  National Museum of Natural Science Taichung, Taiwan 2,299,808[25]
  Topography of Terror Berlin, Germany 2,100,000[28]
  M+ Hong Kong 2,034,331[1]
  Opium War Museum [zh] Dongguan, China 2,025,800[29]
  Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie Paris, France 1,992,823[30]
  National Museum of Scotland Edinburgh, United Kingdom 1,973,751[26]
  State Tretyakov Gallery Moscow, Russia 1,910,000[1]
  National Taiwan Science Education Center Taipei, Taiwan 1,878,504[25]
  National Science and Technology Museum Kaohsiung, Taiwan 1,875,372[25]
  National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul, South Korea 1,806,641[1]
  Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands 1,766,084[31]
  California Science Center Los Angeles, United States 1,694,000[32]
  National Museum of China Beijing, China 1,630,911[33]
  Royal Museums Greenwich London, United Kingdom 1,628,580[26]
  Nanjing Museum Nanjing, China 1,610,000[34]
  Zhejiang Museum of Natural History Hangzhou, China 1,581,263[35]
  National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne, Australia 1,580,303[1]
  Jianchuan Museum Cluster Chengdu, China 1,538,143[36]
  Houston Museum of Natural Science Houston, United States 1,520,000[32]
  Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Tokyo, Japan 1,509,970[1]
  Changzhou Museum Changzhou, China 1,508,229[37]
  Humboldt Forum Berlin, Germany 1,500,000[1]
  Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts Kaohsiung, Taiwan 1,461,406[25]
  Acropolis Museum Athens, Greece 1,451,727[1]
  China Science and Technology Museum Beijing, China 1,431,189[38]
  Galleria dell'Accademia Florence, Italy 1,428,369[1]
  Suzhou Museum Suzhou, China 1,417,412[39]
  Chengdu Museum Chengdu, China 1,404,735[40]
  Shanghai Science and Technology Museum Shanghai, China 1,403,179[41]
  The National Art Center, Tokyo Tokyo, Japan 1,400,096[1]
  Louis Vuitton Foundation Paris, France 1,500,000 (2023)[42]
  Tokyo National Museum Tokyo, Japan 1,372,132[1]
  National Museum in Kraków Kraków, Poland 1,365,425[1]
  Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil São Paulo, Brazil 1,364,208[1]
  Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands 1,364,023[1]
  National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo, Japan 1,350,000[32]
  Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Austria 1,345,617[1]
  Tianjin Natural History Museum Tianjin, China 1,320,752[43]
  Palacio de Cristal del Retiro Madrid, Spain 1,318,823[b][1]
  Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations Marseille, France 1,300,000 (2023)
  Scottish National Gallery Edinburgh, United Kingdom 1,277,230[1]
  National Gallery Singapore Singapore 1,262,189[1]
  Museo Reina Sofía Madrid, Spain 1,253,183[c][1]

Criteria edit

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 edit

Notes edit

  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 edit

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