The primary source for 2024 figures is The Art Newspaper, [1] whose most recent annual survey was published in April 2025. Other 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 [1] |
Museum |
Country and city |
Visitors annually |
Image
|
| (1) |
Louvre |
Paris |
8,737,050 (2024)[2][3]
|
|
| (2) |
Vatican Museums |
Vatican City, Rome |
6,825,436 (2024)[3]
|
|
| (3) |
British Museum |
London |
6,479,952 (2024)[3]
|
|
| (4) |
Metropolitan Museum of Art |
New York City |
5,727,258 (2024)[3]
|
|
| (5) |
Tate Modern |
London |
4,603,025 (2024)[3][4] |
|
| (6) (new) |
Shanghai Museum East (opened 2024) |
Shanghai |
4,234,046 (2024)[3] |
|
| (7) |
National Gallery of Art |
Washington, D.C. |
3,936,543 (2024)[3]
|
|
| (8) |
National Museum of Korea |
Seoul |
3,788,785 (2024)[3]
|
|
| (9) |
Musée d'Orsay |
Paris |
3,751,141 (2024)[3][5]
|
|
| (10) |
National Museum of Anthropology (Mexico) |
Mexico City |
3,700,000 (2024) [6] |
|
| (11) |
State Russian Museum |
Saint Petersburg |
3,611,899 (2024)[3]
|
|
| (12) |
State Hermitage Museum |
Saint Petersburg |
3,563,590 (2024)[3]
|
|
| (13) |
Victoria and Albert Museum |
London |
3,525,700 (2024)[7] |
|
| (14) |
Museo del Prado |
Madrid |
3,457,057 (2024)[8]
|
|
| (15) |
Pompidou Center |
Paris |
3,204,369 (2024)[3] |
|
| (16) |
National Gallery |
London |
3,203,451 (2024)[3][4][9]
|
|
| (17) |
Wawel Castle |
Kraków |
3,100,000 (2024)[10] |
|
| (18) |
Somerset House |
London |
3,074,736 (2024)[11]
|
|
| (19) |
Uffizi Gallery |
Florence |
2,908,828 (2024)[12] |
|
| (20) |
Museum of Modern Art |
New York City |
2,657,377 (2024)[3] |
|
| (21) |
M+ |
Hong Kong |
2,612,691 (2024)[3] |
|
| (22) |
Tretyakov Gallery |
Moscow |
2,524,450 (2024)[3]
|
|
| (23) |
Rijksmuseum |
Amsterdam |
2,500,000 (2024)[3]
|
|
| (25) |
Tokyo National Museum |
Tokyo |
2,436,368 (2024)[3]
|
|
| (26) |
Art Gallery of New South Wales |
Sydney |
2,369,339 (2024)[13] |
|
| (27) (new) |
Shanghai Museum East (opened 2024) |
Shanghai |
2,344,582 (2024)[14]
|
|
| (28) |
National Museum of Scotland |
Edinburgh |
2,314,974 (2024)[15] |
|
| (29) |
NGV International (National Gallery of Victoria) |
Melbourne |
2,287,575 (2024),[16] |
|
| (30) |
Museo Soumaya |
Mexico City |
2,282,933 (2024)[17] |
|
| (31) |
Royal Castle, Warsaw |
Warsaw |
2,148,850 (2024)[18] |
|
| (32) |
National Gallery Singapore |
Singapore |
2,040,481 (2024)[19] |
|
| (33) |
Acropolis Museum |
Athens |
2,000,212 (2024)[20] |
|
| (34) |
Scottish National Gallery |
Edinburgh |
1,999,196 (2024)[21] |
|
| (35) |
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum |
Tokyo |
1,994,080 (2024)[22]
|
|
| (36) |
Kunsthistorisches Museum |
Vienna |
1,954,269 (2024)[23] |
|
| (37) |
National Palace Museum |
Taipei |
1,874,994 (2024)[24] |
|
| (38) |
National Museum in Kraków |
Kraków |
1,859,484 (2024)[25] |
|
| (39) |
Van Gogh Museum |
Amsterdam |
1,840,000 [26] |
|
| (40) |
National Art Center, Tokyo |
Tokyo |
1,755,036 (2024)[27]
|
|
| (41)
|
Hong Kong Museum of Art
|
Hong Kong
|
1,763, 400 (2024)[28]
|
|
| (42) |
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul branch) |
Seoul |
1,655,834 (2024)[29] |
|
| (43) |
National Museum of African-American History and Culture (Smithsonian Institution) |
Washington, D.C. |
1,600,000 (2024) [30] |
|
| (44)
|
National Portrait Gallery
|
London
|
1,578,065 (2024)[31]
|
|
| (45) |
Pushkin Museum |
Moscow |
1,551,628 (2024)[3]
|
|
| (46) |
Museo Reina Sofía |
Madrid |
1,537,105 (2024)[32]
|
|
| (47) |
National Museum of Warsaw |
Warsaw |
1,500,655 (2024)[33]
|
[34]
|
| (48) |
Upper Belvedere |
Vienna |
1,484,222 (2024)[35] |
|
| (50) |
Petit Palais |
Paris |
1,459,371 (2024)[35] |
|
| (51) |
National Folk Museum of Korea |
Seoul |
1,443,298 (2024)[36] |
|
| (53) |
Louvre Abu Dhabi |
Abu Dhabi |
1,422,021 (2024)[35] |
|
| (54) |
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
|
Tokyo |
1,367,385 (2024)[37] |
|
| (55) |
Gyeongju National Museum |
Gyeongju |
1,357,552 (2024)[38] |
|
| (56) |
Doge's Palace |
Venice |
1,333,314 (2024)[39] |
|
| (57) |
Art Institute of Chicago |
Chicago |
1,324,241 (2024)[40] |
|
| (58) |
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao |
Bilbao |
1,301,343 (2024)[41] |
|
| (59) |
Getty Center |
Los Angeles |
1,301,332 (2024)[42] |
|
| (60) |
Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (MUCEM) |
Marseille |
1,300,000 (2024)
[27] |
|
| (61-62) |
Donald W. Reynolds Center
(contains two museums, the National Portrait Gallery and
Smithsonian American Art Museum) |
Washington D.C. |
1,273,450 (2024)[43] |
|
| (63) |
Musée du quai Branly |
Paris |
1,270,000 (2024)[44] |
|
| (64) |
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil |
Rio de Janeiro |
1,234,872 (2024)[45] |
|
| (65) |
Tate Britain |
London |
1,226,872 (2024)[46] |
|
| (66) |
Moscow Kremlin Museums |
Moscow |
1,214,851 (2024)[47] |
|
| (67) |
Louis Vuitton Foundation |
Paris |
1,208,173 (2024)[48] |
|
| (68) |
Musée de l'Orangerie |
Paris |
1,198,694 [49]
|
|
| (69) |
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum |
Glasgow |
1,182,204 (2024) [50] |
|
| (70) |
Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens |
San Marino, California |
1,152,416 (2024)[51] |
|
| (71) |
Palazzo Reale, Milan |
Milan |
1,150,282 (2024)[52] |
|
| (72) |
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa |
Wellington |
1,146,954 (2024)[53] |
|
| (73) |
Museu Picasso |
Barcelona |
1,128,140 (2024)[54]
|
|
| (74) |
Royal Ontario Museum |
Toronto |
1,114,325 (2024) [55]
|
|
| (76) |
Albertina |
Vienna |
1,069,500 (2024)[56]
|
|
| (77) |
National Gallery of Ireland |
Dublin |
1,058,259 (2024)[57] |
|
| (78) |
Tel Aviv Museum of Art |
Tel Aviv |
1,057,362 (2024)[58] |
|
| (79) |
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil |
Rio de Janeiro |
1,043,620 (2024) {[59] |
|
| (80) |
Museo Egizio |
Turin |
1,036,689 (2024) [60] |
|
| (81) |
GES-2 (Moscow) |
Moscow |
1,001,019 (2024)[61] |
|
| (82) |
Istanbul Modern |
Istanbul |
989,617 (2024) [62] |
|
| (83) |
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
Boston |
988,911 (2024)[63] |
|
| (84) |
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum |
Madrid |
951,821 (2024)[64] |
|
| (85) |
CaixaForum Madrid |
Madrid |
947,642 (2024)[65] |
|
| (86) |
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design |
Oslo |
946,000 (2024)[66] |
|
| (87) |
Ashmolean Museum |
Oxford |
942,692 (2024)[67] |
|
| (88) |
Hong Kong Palace Museum |
Hong Kong |
911,548 (2024) [35] |
|
| (89) |
Palazzo Pitti |
Florence |
909,020 (2024)[68] |
|
| (90) |
Whitney Museum |
New York City |
888,816 (2024)[69] |
|
| (91) |
Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
Los Angeles |
873,825 (2024)[70] |
|
| (92) |
Israel Museum |
Jerusalem |
855,157 (2024)[71] |
|
| (93) |
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
Houston |
854,684 (2024)[72] |
|
| (94) |
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC) |
Barcelona |
854,496 (2024)[73] |
|
| (95) |
Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park |
Grand Rapids Charter Township, Michigan |
851,626 (2024)[34] |
|
| (96) |
The Broad |
Los Angeles |
846,500 (2024)[74] |
|
| (97)
|
Palacio de Bellas Artes
|
Mexico City
|
837,124 (2024)[75]
|
|
| (98) |
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia |
Sydney |
833,699 (2024)[76] |
|
| (99) |
Imperial War Museum |
London |
810,497 (2024)[77] |
|
| (100) |
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo |
São Paulo |
810,444 (2024)[78] |
|
See also
Notes
References
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- ^ Louvre Press Release, January 1, 2025
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