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 or 2023 by annual attendance statistics.

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 2024

Name	Visitors in 2024	City	Country
Louvre	8,700,000 (2024) [1]	Paris	France
Vatican Museums	6,825,436 (2024) [2]	Vatican City, Rome	Vatican
British Museum	6,479,952 (2024) [3]	London	United Kingdom
Natural History Museum, South Kensington	6,301,972 (2024) [4]	London	United Kingdom
National Museum of China	6,3 million (as of November 28, 2024) [5]	Beijing	China
Metropolitan Museum of Art	5,727,258 (2024) [6]	New York City	United States
American Museum of Natural History	5,400,000 (2024)	New York City	United States
China Science and Technology Museum	5,315,000 (2023) [7]	Beijing	China
Nanjing Museum	5,006,800 (2023) [8]	Nanjing	China
Suzhou Museum	4,852,000 (2023) [7]	Suzhou	China
Tate Modern	4,603,025 (2024) [9]	London	United Kingdom
National Museum of Natural History	4,400,000 (2023) [10]	Washington, D.C.	United States
Hubei Provincial Museum	4,356,943 (2023) [11]	Wuhan	China
National Museum of Korea	4.18 million (2023) [12]	Seoul	South Korea
National Gallery of Art	3,936,543 (2024) [13]	Washington, D.C.	United States
Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle	3.8 million (2023) [14]	Paris	France
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 Hermitage Museum	3,563,590 (2024) [16]	Saint Petersburg	Russia
Victoria and Albert Museum	3,525,700 (2024) [17]	London, South Kensington	United Kingdom
Prado Museum	3,457,057 (2024) [18]	Madrid	Spain
Mevlana Museum	3,352,505 (2022) [19]	Konya	Turkey
Centre Pompidou	3,204,369 (2024) [20]	Paris	France
National Gallery	3,203,451 (2024) [21]	London	United Kingdom
Chengdu Museum	3,134,129 (2023) [22]	Chengdu	China
Palace and Garden of Sa'dabad	3,121,000 (2022) [23]	Tehran	Iran
National Air and Space Museum [a]	3,100,000 (2024) [24]	Washington, D.C.	United States
Galleria degli Uffizi	2,908,828 (2024) [25]	Florence	Italy
State Russian Museum	2,900,000 (2023) [26]	Saint Petersburg	Russia
National Museum of Natural Science	2,854,455 (2024) [27]	Taichung	Taiwan
Museum of Modern Art	2,839,509 (2023) [28]	New York City	United States
London Science Museum	2,827,242 (2024) [29]	London	United Kingdom
M+	2,798,000 (2023) [30]	Hong Kong	Hong Kong
Changzhou Museum	2,761,514 (2023) [31]	Changzhou	China
National Museum of Marine Science and Technology	2,726,000 (2023) [32]	Keelung	Taiwan
Zhejiang Museum of Natural History	2,715,813 (2023) [33]	Hangzhou	China
Rijksmuseum	2,702,824 (2023) [34]	Amsterdam	Netherlands
National Museum of Nature and Science	2,694,021 (2023) [35]	Tokyo	Japan
Shenzhen Museum	2,601,625 (2023) [36]	Shenzhen	China
Guangdong Museum	2,461,600 (2023) [37]	Guangzhou	China
Museo Nacional de Historia	2,456,825 (2023)	Mexico City	Mexico
Shanxi Museum	2,360,988 (2023) [38]	Taiyuan	China
National Museum of Scotland	2,314,974 (2024) [39]	Edinburgh	United Kingdom
Three Gorges Museum	2,279,105 (2023) [40]	Chongqing	China
Royal Museums Greenwich	2,255,753 [41]	London	United Kingdom
Golestan Palace	2,106,603 (2022) [23]	Tehran	Iran
Smithsonian Museum of American History	2,100,000 (2024) [10]	Washington, D.C.	United States
State Tretyakov Gallery	2,100,000 (2023) [42]	Moscow	Russia
Topography of Terror	2,100,000 (2022) [43]	Berlin	Germany
Art Gallery of NSW	2,032,098 [44]	Sydney	Australia
Galleria dell'Accademia	2,013,914 (2023) [45]	Florence	Italy
National Museum in Warsaw	2,000,000 (2022) [46]	Warsaw	Poland
Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie	1,992,823 [47]	Paris	France
Hebei Museum	1,879,175 (2023) [48]	Shijiazhuang	China
National Science and Technology Museum	1,875,372 [49]	Kaohsiung	Taiwan
National Palace Museum	1,874,994 (2024) [50]	Taipei	Taiwan
Belvedere	1,834,000 (2023) [51]	Vienna	Austria
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art	1,806,641 [52]	Seoul	South Korea
National Gallery Singapore	1,723,916 (2023) [53]	Singapore	Singapore
California Science Center	1,694,000 (2022) [54]	Los Angeles	United States
China National Silk Museum	1,692,697 (2023) [55]	Hangzhou	China
Kunsthistorisches Museum	1,688,509 [56]	Vienna	Austria
Fujian Museum	1,676,973 (2023) [57]	Fuzhou	China
Hangzhou Arts and Crafts Museum	1,641,226 (2023) [58]	Hangzhou	China
National Museum in Kraków	1,600,000 [59]	Kraków	Poland
National Gallery of Victoria	1,580,303 [52]	Melbourne	Australia
Houston Museum of Natural Science	1,520,000 [54]	Houston	United States
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum	1,509,970 [52]	Tokyo	Japan
Humboldt Forum	1,500,000 [52]	Berlin	Germany
Louis Vuitton Foundation	1,500,000 (2023) [60]	Paris	France
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts	1,461,406 [49]	Kaohsiung	Taiwan
Acropolis Museum	1,451,727 [52]	Athens	Greece
The National Art Center, Tokyo	1,400,096 [52]	Tokyo	Japan
Tokyo National Museum	1,372,132 [52]	Tokyo	Japan
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil	1,364,208 [52]	São Paulo	Brazil
Van Gogh Museum	1,364,023 [52]	Amsterdam	Netherlands
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao	1,324,000 (2023) [61]	Bilbao	Spain
Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo	1,321,834 [62]	Rome	Italy
Tianjin Natural History Museum	1,320,752 [63]	Tianjin	China
Palacio de Cristal del Retiro	1,318,823 [b] [52]	Madrid	Spain
Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations	1,300,000 (2023)	Marseille	France
Chinese Aviation Museum	1,292,278 (2023) [64]	Beijing	China
Scottish National Gallery	1,277,230 [52]	Edinburgh	United Kingdom
Museo Reina Sofía	1,253,183 [c] [52]	Madrid	Spain
Galata Tower	1,250,000 (2023) [65]	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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