List of most-visited museums

See also: List of largest museums, 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, per annual attendance statistics. It presents attendance figures from 2023 as they become available. Most figures are from 2022.

Total museum attendance in 2022 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, total attendance in 2022 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.

Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
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 and 2022
Louvre Paris, France 8,900,000 (2023)
Musée d'Orsay Paris, France 5.2 million (including Musée de l'Orangerie) (2023)
National Museum of Natural History Washington, D.C., United States 4,400,000 (2023)
National Museum of Korea Seoul, South Korea 4.18 million (2023)
Prado Museum Madrid, Spain 3,209,285 (2023)
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Bilbao, Spain 1,324,000 (2023)
Vatican Museums Vatican City 5,080,866 (2022)
Natural History Museum London, United Kingdom 4,654,608(2022)
British Museum London, United Kingdom 4,097,253 (2022)
Tate Modern London, United Kingdom 3,883,160 (2022)
Guangdong Museum Guangzhou, China 3,359,700 (2022)
Mevlana Museum Konya, Turkey 3,352,505(2022)
National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C., United States 3,256,433 (2022)
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City, United States 3,208,832 (2022)
State Hermitage Museum Saint Petersburg, Russia 2,812,913 (2022)
National Gallery London, United Kingdom 2,727,119<2022)
State Russian Museum Saint Petersburg, Russia 2,651,688 (figures below are from 2022)
National Museum of Marine Science and Technology Keelung, Taiwan 2,582,444
Victoria and Albert Museum London, United Kingdom 2,370,261
London Science Museum London, United Kingdom 2,334,930
Chinese Aviation Museum Beijing, China 2,300,000
National Museum of Natural Science Taichung, Taiwan 2,299,808
Galleria degli Uffizi Florence, Italy 2,222,692
Museum of Modern Art New York City, United States 2,190,440
Topography of Terror Berlin, Germany 2,100,000
M+ Hong Kong, China 2,034,331
Opium War Museum Dongguan, China 2,025,800
Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie Paris, France 1,992,823
National Museum of Scotland Edinburgh, United Kingdom 1,973,751
State Tretyakov Gallery Moscow, Russia 1,910,000
National Taiwan Science Education Center Taipei, Taiwan 1,878,504
National Science and Technology Museum Kaohsiung, Taiwan 1,875,372
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul, South Korea 1,806,641
Smithsonian Museum of American History Washington, D.C., United States 2,100,000 (2023)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands 1,766,084
California Science Center Los Angeles, United States 1,694,000
National Museum of China Beijing, China 1,630,911
Royal Museums Greenwich London, United Kingdom 1,628,580
Nanjing Museum Nanjing, China 1,610,000
Zhejiang Museum of Natural History Hangzhou, China 1,581,263
National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne, Australia 1,580,303
Jianchuan Museum Cluster Chengdu, China 1,538,143
Houston Museum of Natural Science Houston, United States 1,520,000
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Tokyo, Japan 1,509,970
Changzhou Museum Changzhou, China 1,508,229
Humboldt Forum Berlin, Germany 1,500,000
National Museum of Anthropology Mexico City, Mexico 1,494,587
National Museum of History Mexico City, Mexico 1,486,379
National Air and Space Museum Washington, D.C., United States 1,486,000
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts Kaohsiung, Taiwan 1,461,406
Acropolis Museum Athens, Greece 1,451,727
China Science and Technology Museum Beijing, China 1,431,189
Galleria dell'Accademia Florence, Italy 1,428,369
Suzhou Museum Suzhou, China 1,417,412
Chengdu Museum Chengdu, China 1,404,735
Shanghai Science and Technology Museum Shanghai, China 1,403,179
The National Art Center, Tokyo Tokyo, Japan 1,400,096
Louis Vuitton Foundation Paris, France 1,398,525
Tokyo National Museum Tokyo, Japan 1,372,132
National Museum in Kraków Kraków, Poland 1,365,425
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil São Paulo, Brazil 1,364,208
Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands 1,364,023
National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo, Japan 1,350,000
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Austria 1,345,617
Tianjin Natural History Museum Tianjin, China 1,320,752
Palacio de Cristal del Retiro Madrid, Spain 1,318,823
Scottish National Gallery Edinburgh, United Kingdom 1,277,230
National Gallery Singapore Singapore 1,262,189
Museo Reina Sofía Madrid, Spain 1,253,183

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