List of most-visited museums by region

See also: List of most-visited museums and List of most-visited art museums

This is a list of the most visited museums in each region in 2023, based upon the annual reports of museum attendance from the Art Newspaper Review, and from official national sources. If 2023 figures are not available, earlier figures are shown, with the year indicated.

Asia

Asia - Top twenty museums by number of visitors per year
Name	City	Visitors annually	Country	Year reported
National Museum of China	Beijing	6,757,000	China	2023 [1]
China Science and Technology Museum	Beijing	5,315,000	China	2023 [1]
Nanjing Museum	Nanjing	5,007,000	China	2023 [1]
Suzhou Museum	Suzhou	4,852,000	China	2023 [1]
Hunan Museum	Hunan	4,852,000	China	2023 [1]
Hubei Provincial Museum	Hubei	4,300,000	China	2023 [1]
National Museum of Korea	Seoul	4,180,000	South Korea	2023 [2]
Mevlana Museum	Konya	3,300,000	Turkey	2023 [3]
National Museum of Natural Science	Taichung	2,738,000	Taiwan	2023 [1]
M+	Hong Kong	2,798,000	Hong Kong	2023 [4]
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art	Seoul	1,806,641	South Korea	2022 [5]
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum	Tokyo	1,924,456	Japan	2023 [6]
The National Art Center, Tokyo		2,250,758		2023 [5]
Tokyo National Museum		1,372,132		2022 [5]
National Gallery Singapore	Singapore	1,723,916	Singapore	2023 [6]
Shanghai Science and Technology Museum	Shanghai	494,000	2022 [7]
National Palace Museum [iii]	Taipei	1,040,000	Taiwan	2022 [8]
Zhejiang Provincial Museum	Hangzhou	874,000	2022 [9]
National Taiwan Science Education Center	Taipei	2,468,000	Taiwan	2023 [10]
Shaanxi History Museum	Xi'an	1,000,000	China	2020 [10]

Europe

Europe - Top museums by number of visitors in 2023
Name	City	Visitors per year	Country	Year reported
Louvre	Paris	8,900,000	France	2023 [11]
Vatican Museums	Vatican City	6,800,000	Vatican	2023 [12]
British Museum	London	5,820,860	United Kingdom	2023 [13]
Natural History Museum	London	5,688,608	United Kingdom	2023 [13]
Musée d'Orsay	Paris	5.2 million	France	2023 [12]
Galleria degli Uffizi	Florence	5,138,588	Italy	2023 [12]
Tate Modern	London	4,742,038	United Kingdom	2023 [13]
State Hermitage Museum	Saint Petersburg	3,274,000	Russia	2023 [11]
Victoria and Albert Museum	London	3,110,000	United Kingdom	2023 [11] [12]
Centre Pompidou	Paris	3,009,570	France	2023 [12]
London Science Museum	London	2,957,000	United Kingdom	2023 [14]
National Gallery	London	2,727,119	United Kingdom	2023 [12]
Rijksmuseum	Amsterdam	2,702,824	Netherlands	2023 [12]
Museo del Prado	Madrid	2,456,724	Spain	2023 [12]
Tretyakov Gallery	Moscow	2,100,000	Russia	2023 [12]
Galleria dell'Accademia	Florence	2,013,974	Italy	2023 [12]
Warsaw National Museum	Warsaw	2,000,000	Poland	2023 [15]
Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie	Paris	1,992,823	France	2022 [12]
Van Gogh Museum	Amsterdam	1,686,766	Netherlands	2023 [12]
National Museum in Kraków	Kraków	1,600,000	Poland	2023 [16]
Reina Sofía	Madrid	1,514,854	Spain	2023 [12]
Galata Tower	Istanbul	1,300,000	Turkey	2023 [17]

North America

Name	City	Visitors per year	Country	Year reported
Metropolitan Museum of Art	New York City	5,364,000	United States	2023 [18]
National Museum of Natural History	Washington, D.C.	4,400,000	United States	2023 [19]
National Gallery of Art		3,829,812		2023 [20]
Museum of Modern Art	New York City	2,839,509		2023 [11]
Smithsonian Museum of American History	Washington, D.C.	2,100,000		2023 [21]
National Air and Space Museum (with Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center)		3,100,000		2023 [18]
National Museum of African American History and Culture		1,600,000		2023 [22]
Art Institute of Chicago	Chicago	1,300,000		2023 [23]
Los Angeles County Museum of Art	Los Angeles	902,237		2022 [18]
Getty Center		989,302		2022 [18]
Art Gallery of Ontario	Toronto	1,000,000	Canada	2025 [24]
Royal Ontario Museum		796,579		2022 [25]
National Gallery of Canada|Ottawa		165,854		2022 [26]
National Museum of Anthropology	Mexico City	1,494,587	Mexico	2022 [27]
National Museum of History		1,486,379		2022 [27]
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology	Drumheller, Alberta	501,430	Canada	2022
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens	San Marino	1,014,000	United States	2022 [28]

Oceania

Name	City	Visitors per year	Country	Year reported
Art Gallery of New South Wales	Sydney	1,692,028	Australia	2023 [29]
National Gallery of Victoria	Melbourne	1,580,303		2022 [30]
Australian National Maritime Museum	Sydney	1,093,072		2023 [31]
National Gallery of Australia	Canberra	1,021,983		2022 [32]
Australian Museum	Sydney	950,000		2023 [33]
Museum of New Zealand	Wellington	863,129	New Zealand	2022 [32]
Powerhouse Museum (Ultimo)	Sydney	583,757	Australia	2023 [34]
Queensland Gallery of Modern Art	Brisbane	271,030		2020 [35]
Australian Centre for the Moving Image	Melbourne	1,316,000		2016 [36]
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia	Sydney	1,206,000		2017 [37]

South America

South America
Name	City	Visitors per year	Country	Year reported
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil	Belo Horizonte	1,474,825	Brazil	2023 [38]
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil	Rio de Janeiro	1,323,034		2023 [38]
Museu Nacional da Republica	Brasília	935,168		2017 [37]
Instituto Tomie Othake	São Paulo	895,769		2017 [37]
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo		880,000		2023 [39]
Museu do Ipiranga		655,759		2023 [40]
São Paulo Museum of Art		530,235		2023 [41]
Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires	Buenos Aires	515,000	Argentina	2023 [42]

See also

• List of most-visited museums
• List of most-visited art museums
• List of most-visited museums in the United States
• List of most visited museums in the United Kingdom
• List of most-visited museums in France

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