List of most-visited museums

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 in 2023 by annual attendance statistics. Total attendance at the top sixty museums in 2023, as reported by the annual TEA-AECOM Museum survey, reached 94 percent of 2019 levels, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

Vatican Museums, Vatican City, Rome

National Museum of China, Beijing, China

British Museum, London

Natural History Museum, London

Metropolitan Museum, New York City

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 2023–24

Name	Visitors in 2023 or 2022	City	Country
Louvre	8,700,000 (2024) [1]	Paris	France
Vatican Museums	6,800,000 (2023) [2]	Vatican City, Rome	Vatican
National Museum of China	6,765,000 (2023) [3]	Beijing	China
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
American Museum of Natural History	5,400,000 (2023) [6]	New York City	United States
China Science and Technology Museum	5,315,000 (2023) [3]	Beijing	China
Galleria degli Uffizi	5,138,588 (2023) [7]	Florence	Italy
Nanjing Museum	5,007,000 (2023) [8]	Nanjing	China
Musée d'Orsay	4.9 million (including Musée de l'Orangerie) (2024) [9]	Paris	France
Suzhou Museum	4,852,000 (2023) [3]	Suzhou	China
Tate Modern	4,742,038 (2023) [10]	London	United Kingdom
National Museum of Natural History	4,400,000 (2023) [11]	Washington, D.C.	United States
National Museum of Korea	4.18 million (2023) [12]	Seoul	South Korea
Guangdong Museum	4,000,000 (2023) [13]	Guangzhou	China
National Gallery of Art	3,829,812 (2023) [14]	Washington, D.C.	United States
Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle	3.8 million (2023) [15]	Paris	France
State Hermitage Museum	3,273,753 (2023) [16]	Saint Petersburg	Russia
Prado Museum	3,338,285 (2023) [16]	Madrid	Spain
Palace and Garden of Sa'dabad	3,121,000 (2022) [17]	Tehran	Iran
Victoria and Albert Museum	3,110,000 (2023) [16]	London	United Kingdom
National Air and Space Museum [a]	3,100,000 (2024) [18]	Washington, D.C.	United States
National Gallery	3,096,508 (2023) [19]	London	United Kingdom
Museum of Modern Art	2,839,509 (2023) [20]	New York City	United States
National Museum of Anthropology	2,636,352 (2023)	Mexico City	Mexico
Centre Pompidou	2,611,000 (2023) [21]	Paris	France
Museo Nacional de Historia	2,456,825 (2023)	Mexico City	Mexico
Golestan Palace	2,106,603 (2022) [17]	Tehran	Iran
Smithsonian Museum of American History	2,100,000 (2024) [11]	Washington, D.C.	United States
Galleria dell'Accademia	2,013,914 (2023) [22]	Florence	Italy
National Museum in Warsaw	2,000,000 (2022) [23]	Warsaw	Poland
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao	1,324,000 (2023) [24]	Bilbao	Spain
Mevlana Museum	3,352,505 (2022) [25]	Konya	Turkey
State Russian Museum	2,900,000 (2023) [26]	Saint Petersburg	Russia
National Museum of Marine Science and Technology	2,726,000 (2023) [27]	Keelung	Taiwan
London Science Museum	2,957,000 (2023) [28]	London	United Kingdom
M+	2,798,000 (2023) [29]	Hong Kong	Hong Kong
National Museum of Nature and Science	2,694,021 (2023) [30]	Tokyo	Japan
Chinese Aviation Museum	2,300,000 (2022) [31]	Beijing	China
Topography of Terror	2,100,000 (2022) [32]	Berlin	Germany
Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie	1,992,823 [33]	Paris	France
National Museum of Scotland	2,188,6411 (2023) [34]	Edinburgh	United Kingdom
State Tretyakov Gallery	2,100,000 (2023) [35]	Moscow	Russia
National Science and Technology Museum	1,875,372 [36]	Kaohsiung	Taiwan
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art	1,806,641 [37]	Seoul	South Korea
Rijksmuseum	2,702,824 (2023) [38]	Amsterdam	Netherlands
Belvedere	1,834,000 (2023) [39]	Vienna	Austria
National Gallery Singapore	1,723,916 (2023) [40]	Singapore	Singapore
California Science Center	1,694,000 [41]	Los Angeles	United States
Art Gallery of NSW	1,692,028 [42]	Sydney	Australia
Royal Museums Greenwich	1,628,580 [43]	London	United Kingdom
Zhejiang Museum of Natural History	1,581,263 [44]	Hangzhou	China
National Gallery of Victoria	1,580,303 [37]	Melbourne	Australia
National Palace Museum	>1,550,000 [45]	Taipei	Taiwan
Jianchuan Museum Cluster	1,538,143 [46]	Chengdu	China
Houston Museum of Natural Science	1,520,000 [41]	Houston	United States
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum	1,509,970 [37]	Tokyo	Japan
Changzhou Museum	1,508,229 [47]	Changzhou	China
Humboldt Forum	1,500,000 [37]	Berlin	Germany
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts	1,461,406 [36]	Kaohsiung	Taiwan
Acropolis Museum	1,451,727 [37]	Athens	Greece
China Science and Technology Museum	1,431,189 [48]	Beijing	China
Suzhou Museum	1,417,412 [49]	Suzhou	China
Chengdu Museum	1,404,735 [50]	Chengdu	China
Shanghai Science and Technology Museum	1,403,179 [51]	Shanghai	China
The National Art Center, Tokyo	1,400,096 [37]	Tokyo	Japan
Louis Vuitton Foundation	1,500,000 (2023) [52]	Paris	France
Tokyo National Museum	1,372,132 [37]	Tokyo	Japan
National Museum in Kraków	1,600,000 [53]	Kraków	Poland
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil	1,364,208 [37]	São Paulo	Brazil
Van Gogh Museum	1,364,023 [37]	Amsterdam	Netherlands
Kunsthistorisches Museum	1,688,509 [54]	Vienna	Austria
Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo	1,321,834 [55]	Rome	Italy
Tianjin Natural History Museum	1,320,752 [56]	Tianjin	China
Palacio de Cristal del Retiro	1,318,823 [b] [37]	Madrid	Spain
Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations	1,300,000 (2023)	Marseille	France
Scottish National Gallery	1,277,230 [37]	Edinburgh	United Kingdom
Museo Reina Sofía	1,253,183 [c] [37]	Madrid	Spain
Galata Tower	1,250,000 (2023) [57]	Istanbul	Turkey

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

• Arts portal
• Visual arts portal

• List of most-visited art museums
• List of most-visited museums by region
• List of largest art museums
• List of most visited palaces and monuments
• List of most visited museums in the Netherlands
• List of most visited museums in the United Kingdom
• List of most-visited museums in the United States
• List of most-visited museums in France

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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