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 2024. Primary sources include annual attendance statistics in the "Art Newspaper" (March 2025}! the TEA Museum Index for 2024, published August 2025, the annual report of the National Cultural Heritage Administration of the Chinese Government, the Smithsonian News Desk in the United States, the annual report of the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions in the United Kingdom, and museum websites.

Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

National Museum of China, Beijing, China

Vatican Museums, Vatican City, Rome

British Museum, London

List of Most-visited museums

Name	Visitors	City	Country
Louvre	8,700,000 (2024) [1]	Paris	France
National Museum of China	6,956,800 (2024) [2]	Beijing	China
Vatican Museums	6,825,436 (2024) [3]	Vatican City, Rome	Vatican
Shenzhen Museum	6,805,000 (2024) [4]	Shenzhen	China
British Museum	6,479,952 (2024) [5]	London	United Kingdom
China Science and Technology Museum	6,421,000 (2024) [6]	Beijing	China
Natural History Museum, South Kensington	6,301,972 (2024) [7]	London	United Kingdom
Metropolitan Museum of Art	5,727,258 (2024) [8]	New York City	United States
Nanjing Museum	5,680,000 (2024) [9]	Nanjing	China
American Museum of Natural History	5,400,000 (2024)	New York City	United States
Tate Modern	4,603,025 (2024) [10]	London	United Kingdom
Hubei Provincial Museum	4,356,943 (2024) [11]	Wuhan	China
Shanghai Museum East	4,230,000 (2024) [12]	Shanghai	China
National Gallery of Art	3,936,543 (2024) [13]	Washington, D.C.	United States
National Museum of Korea	3.78 million (2024) [14]	Seoul	South Korea
Musée d'Orsay	3,751,000 (including Musée de l'Orangerie) (2024) [15]	Paris	France
National Museum of Anthropology	3,700,000 (2024)	Mexico City	Mexico
State Russian Museum	3,611,899 (2024) [16]	Saint Petersburg	Russia
State Hermitage Museum	3,563,590 (2024) [17]	Saint Petersburg	Russia
Victoria and Albert Museum	3,525,700 (2024) [18]	London, South Kensington	United Kingdom
Prado Museum	3,457,057 (2024) [19]	Madrid	Spain
Centre Pompidou	3,204,369 (2024) [20]	Paris	France
National Gallery	3,203,451 (2024) [21]	London	United Kingdom
Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle	3.2 million (2024) [22]	Paris	France
National Air and Space Museum [a]	3,100,000 (2024) [23]	Washington, D.C.	United States
Mevlana Museum	3,048,000 (2024) [24]	Konya	Turkey
National Museum of Natural History	3.0 million (2024) [25]	Washington, D.C.	United States
Galleria degli Uffizi	2,908,828 (2024) [26]	Florence	Italy
National Museum of Natural Science	2,854,455 (2024) [27]	Taichung	Taiwan
Museum of Modern Art	2,657,377 (2024) [28]	New York City	United States
London Science Museum	2,827,242 (2024) [29]	London	United Kingdom
M+	2.61 million (2024) [30] [31]	Hong Kong	Hong Kong
National Museum of Scotland	2,314,974 (2024) [32]	Edinburgh	United Kingdom
State Russian Museum	3,611,899 (2024) [33]	Saint Petersburg	Russia
Tokyo National Museum	2,460,000 (2024) [34]	Tokyo	Japan
Royal Museums Greenwich	2,255,753 (2024) [35]	London	United Kingdom
State Tretyakov Gallery	2,524,450 (2024) [36]	Moscow	Russia
Smithsonian Museum of American History	2,100,000 (2024) [37]	Washington, D.C.	United States
Art Gallery of NSW	2,032,098 [38]	Sydney	Australia
Galleria dell'Accademia	2,189,103 (2024) [39]	Florence	Italy
Hebei Museum	1,879,175 (2023) [40]	Shijiazhuang	China
National Science and Technology Museum	1,875,372 [41]	Kaohsiung	Taiwan
National Palace Museum	1,874,994 (2024) [42]	Taipei	Taiwan
Van Gogh Museum	1,840,000 (2024) [43]	Amsterdam	Netherlands
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao	1,301,343 (2024) [44]	Bilbao	Spain
Moscow Kremlin Museum	1,214,851 (2024) [45]	Moscow	Russia
National Gallery Singapore	2,040,481 (2024) [46]	Singapore	Singapore
California Science Center	1,694,000 (2022) [47]	Los Angeles	United States
China National Silk Museum	1,692,697 (2023) [48]	Hangzhou	China
Kunsthistorisches Museum	1,688,509 [49]	Vienna	Austria
Fujian Museum	1,676,973 (2023) [50]	Fuzhou	China
Hangzhou Arts and Crafts Museum	1,641,226 (2023) [51]	Hangzhou	China
National Museum in Kraków	1,600,000 [52]	Kraków	Poland
National Gallery of Victoria	1,580,303 [43]	Melbourne	Australia
Louis Vuitton Foundation	1,500,000 (2023) [53]	Paris	France
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts	1,461,406 [41]	Kaohsiung	Taiwan
Acropolis Museum	1,451,727 [43]	Athens	Greece
The National Art Center, Tokyo	1,755,036 [43]	Tokyo	Japan
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil	1,364,208 [43]	São Paulo	Brazil
Palacio de Cristal del Retiro	1,318,823 [b] [43]	Madrid	Spain
Chinese Aviation Museum	1,292,278 (2023) [54]	Beijing	China

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 Palace Museum in Beijing (17,000,000 visitors in 2024) is not included, nor the Chengdu-Wuhou Mausoleum Site (14,500,570) and Emperor Quin-shi-Huang Mausoleum in Xian (11,610,000 visitors in 2024) nor are 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.

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