List of most-visited art museums

A primary source for 2024 figures is the Art Newspaper, [1], whose most recent annual survey was published in March 2025. Other major sources included the newsroom of the Smithsonian Institution, the French Ministry of Culture, and the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions in the United Kingdom.

Visitor numbers for museums in mainland China are traditionally released by the government in May each year, after the publication of The Art Newspaper list.

Visitors in 2024

Rank in 2024	Museum	Country and city	Visitors annually
(1)	Louvre	Paris	8,737,050 (2024)^[1]
(2)	Vatican Museums	Vatican City, Rome	6,825,436 (2024)^[1]
(3)	British Museum	London	6,479,952 (2024)^[1]
(4)	Metropolitan Museum of Art	New York City	5,727,258 (2024)^[1]
(5)	Tate Modern	London	4,603,025 (2024)^[1]^[2]
(6)	Shanghai Museum East (opened 2024)	Shanghai	4,243,046 (2024)^[1]
(7)	National Gallery of Art	Washington, D.C.	3,936,543 (2024)^[1]
(8)	National Museum of Korea	Seoul	3,788,785 (2024)^[1]
(9)	Musée d'Orsay	Paris	3,751,141 (2024)^[1]^[3]
(11)	State Russian Museum	Saint Petersburg	3,611,899 (2024)^[1]
(12)	State Hermitage Museum	Saint Petersburg	3,563,590 (2024)^[1]
(13)	Victoria and Albert Museum	London	3,525,700 (2024)^[1]^[2]
(14)	Museo del Prado	Madrid	3,457,057 (2024)^[1]
(15)	Pompidou Center	Paris	3,204,369 (2024)^[1]
(16)	National Gallery	London	3,203,451 (2024)^[1]^[2]^[4]
(19)	Uffizi Gallery	Florence	2,908,828 (2024)^[1]
(15)	Museum of Modern Art	New York City	2,657,377 (2024)^[1]
(16)	M+	Hong Kong	2,612,691 (2024)^[1]
(17)	Somerset House	London	3,074,736 (2024)^[1]
(18)	Rijksmuseum	Amsterdam	2,500,000 (2024)^[1]
(20)	Wawel Castle	Kraków	3,100,000 (2024)^[1]
(21)	The National Art Center, Tokyo	Tokyo	2,436,368 (2024)^[5]
(22)	21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art	Kanazawa	2,230,939 (2023)^[5]
(23)	National Museum of Scotland	Edinburgh	2,314,974 (2024)^[1]^[2]
(24)	Tretyakov Gallery	Moscow	2,524,450 (2024)^[1]
(25)	Royal Castle, Warsaw	Warsaw	2,148,850 (2024)^[1]
(26)	National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul branch)	Seoul	2,021,771 (2023)^[5]
(27)	Galleria dell'Accademia	Florence	2,013,974 (2023)^[5]
(28)	Art Gallery of New South Wales	Sydney	1,945,810 (2023)^[5]
(29)	Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum	Tokyo	1,924,456 (2023)^[5]
(30)	Acropolis Museum	Athens	1,904,456 (2023)^[5]
(31)	National Palace Museum	Taipei	1,874,994 (2024)^[5]
(32)	Scottish National Gallery	Edinburgh	1,836,057 (2023)^[5]
(32)	NGV International (National Gallery of Victoria)	Melbourne	1,800,124 (2023),^[5]
(33)	National Gallery Singapore	Singapore	1,723,916 (2023)^[5]
(34)	Humboldt Forum	Berlin	1,700,000 (2023)^[5]
(35)	Kunsthistorisches Museum	Vienna	1,688,509 (2023)^[5]
(36)	Van Gogh Museum	Amsterdam	1,686,766 (2023)^[5]
(37)	National Museum in Kraków	Kraków	1,650,792 (2023)^[5]
(38)	National Museum of African-American History and Culture (Smithsonian Institution)	Washington, D.C.	1,600,000 (2023)^[5]
(39)	Louis Vuitton Foundation	Paris	1,550,000 (2023)^[5]
(40)	Museo Reina Sofía	Madrid	1,514,854 (2023)^[5]
(41)	Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil	Belo Horizonte	1,474,825 (2023)^[5]
(42)	Musée du quai Branly	Paris	1,410,000 (2023)^[6]
(43)	Gyeongju National Museum	Gyeongju	1,340,032 (2023)^[5]
(44)	Upper Belvedere	Vienna	1,339,660 (2023)^[5]
(45)	Guggenheim Museum Bilbao	Bilbao	1,324,221 (2023)^[7]
(46)	Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil	Rio de Janeiro	1,323,034 (2023)^[7]
(47)	Art Institute of Chicago	Chicago	1,322,195 (2023)^[8]
(48)	Doge's Palace	Venice	1,301,619 (2023)^[5]
(49)	Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (MUCEM)	Marseille	1,300,000 (2023) ^[9]
(50)	Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum	Glasgow	1,283,882 (2023)^[5]
(51)	Hong Kong Palace Museum	Hong Kong	1,260,000 (2023)^[5]
(52)	Hong Kong Museum of Art	Hong Kong	1,257,411 (2023)^[5]
(53)	Getty Center	Los Angeles	1,251,134 (2023)^[5]
(54)	Louvre Abu Dhabi	Abu Dhabi	1,247,076 (2023)^[5]
(55)	National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design	Oslo	1,246,000 (2023)^[5]
(56)	Musée de l'Orangerie	Paris	1,239,539 (2023)^[10]
(57)	Petit Palais	Paris	1,187,637 (2023)^[11]
(58)	Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa	Wellington	1,181,637 (2023)^[5]
(59)	Donald W. Reynolds Center (contains two museums, the National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum)	Washington D.C.	1,166,129 (2023)^[5]
(60)	National Portrait Gallery	London	1,164,018 (2023)^[5]
(61)	Serralves	Porto	1,147,761 (2023)^[5]
(62)	Tate Britain	London	1,091,218 (2023)^[5]
(63)	Royal Ontario Museum	Toronto	1,091,120 (2023)^[5]
(64)	Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens	San Marino, California	1,090,475 (2023)^[5]
(65)	Museo Egizio	Turin	1,061,157 (2023)^[5]
(66)	Museu Picasso	Barcelona	1,047,094 (2023)^[5]
(67)	Moscow Kremlin Museums	Moscow	1,024,610 (2023)^[5]
(68)	Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum	Madrid	1,017,684 (2023)^[5]
(69)	National Gallery of Ireland	Dublin	1,017,636 (2023)^[5]
(70)	De Young Museum	San Francisco	999,645 (2023)^[5]
(71)	Museum of Fine Arts, Houston	Houston	999,514 (2023)^[5]
(72)	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston	Boston	952,290 (2023)^[5]
(73)	Albertina	Vienna	943,974 (2023)^[5]
(74)	Musee d'Art Moderne de Paris	Paris	927,023 (2023)^[5]
(75)	Tel Aviv Museum of Art	Tel Aviv	906,350 (2023)^[5]
(76)	Los Angeles County Museum of Art	Los Angeles	902,237 (2023)^[5]
(77)	Ashmolean Museum	Oxford	900,277 (2023)^[5]
(78)	Royal Palace of Milan	Milan	896,681 (2023)^[5]
(79)	The Broad	Los Angeles	895,949 (2023)^[5]
(80)	National Museum of Modern Art (MOMAT)	Tokyo	883,596 (2023)^[5]
(81)	Palazzo Pitti	Florence	883,568 (2023)^[5]
(82)	Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum	New York City	861,374 (2023)^[5]
(83)	Museum of Contemporary Art Australia	Sydney	859,386 (2023)^[5]
(84)	Art Gallery of Ontario	Toronto	846,835 (2023)^[5]
(85)	Imperial War Museum	London	841,575 (2023)^[5]
(86)	Museum of Fine Arts	Budapest	821,491 (2023)^[5]
(87)	Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art	Bentonville	784,971 (2023)^[5]
(88)	Museo Picasso Málaga	Málaga	779,279 (2023)^[5]
(89)	Whitney Museum	New York City	768,000 (2023)^[5]
(90)	Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park	Grand Rapids Charter Township, Michigan	760,667 (2023)^[5]
(91)	Fondation Monet in Giverny	Giverny	750,000 (2023)^[5]
(92)	Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia (National Gallery of Victoria)	Melbourne	732,114 (2023)^[5]
(93)	Dalí Theatre-Museum	Figueres	726,199 (2023)^[5]
(94)	National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Gwacheon branch)	Gwacheon	726,065 (2023)^[5]
(95)	Hong Kong Heritage Museum	Hong Kong	724,011 (2023)^[5]
(96)	Faberge Museum	St Petersburg	709,982 (2023)^[5]
(97)	Royal Academy of Arts	London	709,961 (2023)^[5]
(98)	Louisiana Museum of Modern Art	Humlebæk	702,426 (2023)^[5]
(99)	National Museum of the American Indian	Washington D.C.	701,021 (2023)^[5]
(100)	Cleveland Museum of Art	Cleveland	685,336 (2023)^[5]

Notes

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x "The world's most-visited museums 2024: normality returns—for some". The Art Newspaper. 1 April 2025. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Latest Visitor Figures (2024)". Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA). Retrieved 22 April 2025.
^ Club innovation-culture.fr, 10 April 2025
^ "Press releases | Press and media | National Gallery, London". www.nationalgallery.org.uk. Retrieved 11 September 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab ^ac ^ad ^ae ^af ^ag ^ah ^ai ^aj ^ak ^al ^am ^an ^ao ^ap ^aq ^ar ^as ^at ^au ^av ^aw ^ax ^ay ^az ^ba ^bb ^bc ^bd ^be ^bf ^bg ^bh ^bi ^bj ^bk ^bl ^bm ^bn ^bo ^bp ^bq ^br ^bs "The 100 most popular art museums in the world—blockbusters, bots and bounce-backs". The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. 26 March 2024. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
^ beaux-Arts.com,February 2024
^ ^a ^b CLIC Annual Museum Survey, January 2024
^ "The New York Times," March 21, 2024
^ CLIC Museum Index, January 30, 2024
^ CLC Museum Index, Feb. 2024
^ Beaux-Arts.com February 2024|

[TANfor2024-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x "The world's most-visited museums 2024: normality returns—for some". The Art Newspaper. 1 April 2025. Retrieved 22 April 2025.

[ALVAfor2024-2] "Latest Visitor Figures (2024)". Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA). Retrieved 22 April 2025.

[3] Club innovation-culture.fr, 10 April 2025

[4] "Press releases | Press and media | National Gallery, London". www.nationalgallery.org.uk. Retrieved 11 September 2024.

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[6] ux-Arts.com,February 2024

[:1-7] CLIC Annual Museum Survey, January 2024

[8] "The New York Times," March 21, 2024

[9] CLIC Museum Index, January 30, 2024

[10] CLC Museum Index, Feb. 2024

[11] Beaux-Arts.com February 2024|

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