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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

Name Location Visitors in 2023 or 2022
France Louvre Paris, France 8,900,000 (2023) [2]
Vatican City Vatican Museums Vatican City 6,800,000 (2023) [3]
United Kingdom British Museum London, United Kingdom 5,820,860( 2023) [4]
United Kingdom Natural History Museum London, United Kingdom 5,688,608(2023) [5]
France Musée d'Orsay Paris, France 5.2 million (including Musée de l'Orangerie) (2023) [6]
United Kingdom Tate Modern London, United Kingdom 4,742,038 (2023) [7]
United States National Museum of Natural History Washington, D.C., United States 4,400,000 (2023) [9]
South Korea National Museum of Korea Seoul, South Korea 4.18 million (2023) [10]
France Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle Paris, France 3.8 million (2023) [11]
United States National Air and Space Museum [a] Washington, D.C., United States 3,100,000 (2023) [12]
Spain Prado Museum Madrid, Spain 3,209,285 (2023) [14]
United Kingdom National Gallery London, United Kingdom 3,096,508 (2023> [15])
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) [16]
Spain Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Bilbao, Spain 1,324,000 (2023) [17]
China Guangdong Museum Guangzhou, China 3,359,700 [18] (2022)
Turkey Mevlana Museum Konya, Turkey 3,352,505 [19](2022)
Russia State Hermitage Museum Saint Petersburg, Russia 2,812,913 [1] (2022)
Russia State Russian Museum Saint Petersburg, Russia 2,651,688 [1] (figures below are from 2022)
Taiwan National Museum of Marine Science and Technology Keelung, Taiwan 2,582,444 [20]
United Kingdom Victoria and Albert Museum London, United Kingdom 2,370,261 [21]
United Kingdom London Science Museum London, United Kingdom 2,334,930 [21]
China Chinese Aviation Museum Beijing, China 2,300,000 [22]
Taiwan National Museum of Natural Science Taichung, Taiwan 2,299,808 [20]
Italy Galleria degli Uffizi Florence, Italy 2,222,692 [1]
United States Museum of Modern Art New York City, United States 2,190,440 [1]
Germany Topography of Terror Berlin, Germany 2,100,000 [23]
Hong Kong M+ Hong Kong 2,034,331 [1]
China Opium War Museum [ zh] Dongguan, China 2,025,800 [24]
France Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie Paris, France 1,992,823 [25]
United Kingdom National Museum of Scotland Edinburgh, United Kingdom 1,973,751 [21]
Russia State Tretyakov Gallery Moscow, Russia 1,910,000 [1]
Taiwan National Taiwan Science Education Center Taipei, Taiwan 1,878,504 [20]
Taiwan National Science and Technology Museum Kaohsiung, Taiwan 1,875,372 [20]
South Korea National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul, South Korea 1,806,641 [1]
Netherlands Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands 1,766,084 [26]
United States California Science Center Los Angeles, United States 1,694,000 [27]
China National Museum of China Beijing, China 1,630,911 [28]
United Kingdom Royal Museums Greenwich London, United Kingdom 1,628,580 [21]
China Nanjing Museum Nanjing, China 1,610,000 [29]
China Zhejiang Museum of Natural History Hangzhou, China 1,581,263 [30]
Australia National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne, Australia 1,580,303 [1]
China Jianchuan Museum Cluster Chengdu, China 1,538,143 [31]
United States Houston Museum of Natural Science Houston, United States 1,520,000 [27]
Japan Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Tokyo, Japan 1,509,970 [1]
China Changzhou Museum Changzhou, China 1,508,229 [32]
Germany Humboldt Forum Berlin, Germany 1,500,000 [1]
Taiwan Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts Kaohsiung, Taiwan 1,461,406 [20]
Greece Acropolis Museum Athens, Greece 1,451,727 [1]
China China Science and Technology Museum Beijing, China 1,431,189 [33]
Italy Galleria dell'Accademia Florence, Italy 1,428,369 [1]
China Suzhou Museum Suzhou, China 1,417,412 [34]
China Chengdu Museum Chengdu, China 1,404,735 [35]
China Shanghai Science and Technology Museum Shanghai, China 1,403,179 [36]
Japan The National Art Center, Tokyo Tokyo, Japan 1,400,096 [1]
France Louis Vuitton Foundation Paris, France 1,500,000 (2023) [37]
Japan Tokyo National Museum Tokyo, Japan 1,372,132 [1]
Poland National Museum in Kraków Kraków, Poland 1,365,425 [1]
Brazil Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil São Paulo, Brazil 1,364,208 [1]
Netherlands Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands 1,364,023 [1]
Japan National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo, Japan 1,350,000 [27]
Austria Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Austria 1,345,617 [1]
China Tianjin Natural History Museum Tianjin, China 1,320,752 [38]
Spain Palacio de Cristal del Retiro Madrid, Spain 1,318,823 [b] [1]
France Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations Marseille, France 1,300,000 (2023)
United Kingdom Scottish National Gallery Edinburgh, United Kingdom 1,277,230 [1]
Singapore National Gallery Singapore Singapore 1,262,189 [1]
Spain Museo Reina Sofía Madrid, Spain 1,253,183 [c] [1]

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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