In 2023, total attendance in the most-visited art museums returned largely to the level of 2019, for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began.[1]
The 100 most popular art museums in the world in 2022, divided by countries and continents.
A primary source for 2023 figures is the Art Newspaper , , whose most recent annual survey was published in March 2024. 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, several months after the publication of The Art Newspaper' s list. Museums in China included on the 2021 list are noted at the bottom of this list with the prior year's statistics and will be incorporated into the main listings when 2022 statistics are released.[2]
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(1) Louvre Paris 8,860,000 (2023)[3]
(2) Vatican Museums Vatican City , Rome 6,765,000 (2023)[4]
(3) National Museum of China Beijing 6,757,000 (2023)[5]
(3) British Museum London 5,820,860 (2023) (up 42 percent from 2022)[6] [7]
(4) Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City 5,364,000 (2023)[8]
(5) Uffizi Gallery Florence 5,138,588 (2023) (up 26,37 percent from 2022)[9]
(6) Tate Modern London4,742,038 (2023)[7]
(13) National Gallery London4,287,434 (2023)[10]
(7) National Museum of Korea Seoul 4,180,285 (2023)[11]
(8) Musée d'Orsay Paris3,871,498 (2023)[12]
(9) National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. 3,829,812 (2023)[13]
(10) Museo del Prado Madrid 3,337,550 (2023)[11]
(11) State Hermitage Museum Saint Petersburg 3,273,753 (2023)[14]
(12) Victoria and Albert Museum London3,110,000 (2023) (up 28 percent from 2022)[15] [6] [7]
(14) State Russian Museum Saint Petersburg2,900,000 (2023)[14]
(15) Museum of Modern Art New York City2,839,509 (2023)[14]
(16) M+ Hong Kong 2,797,616 (2023)[14]
(17) Somerset House London2,727,677 (2023) (up 28 percent from 2022)[6] [7]
(18) Rijksmuseum Amsterdam 2,702,824 (2023)[14]
(19) Musée National d'Art Moderne (Centre Pompidou ) Paris2,621,696 (2023)
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(20) Wawel Castle Kraków 2,561,000 (2023)[14]
(21) The National Art Center, Tokyo Tokyo2,250,758 (2023)[14]
(22)
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art
Kanazawa
2,230,939 (2023)[14]
(23) National Museum of Scotland Edinburgh 2,186,841 (2023) (up 56 percent from 2022)[18] [6]
(24) Tretyakov Gallery Moscow2,100,000 (2023)[14]
(25) Royal Castle, Warsaw Warsaw 2,023,642 (2023)[14]
(26) National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul branch) Seoul 2,021,771 (2023)[14]
(27) Galleria dell'Accademia Florence 2,013,974 (2023)[14]
(28) Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney 1,945,810 (2023)[14]
(29) Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Tokyo 1,924,456 (2023)[14]
(30) Acropolis Museum Athens 1,904,456 (2023)[14]
(31) Scottish National Gallery Edinburgh 1,836,057 (2023)[14]
(32) NGV International (National Gallery of Victoria ) Melbourne 1,800,124 (2023),[14] figure does not include visitors to the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
(33) National Gallery Singapore Singapore 1,723,916 (2023)[14]
(34) Humboldt Forum Berlin 1,700,000 (2023)[14]
(35) Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna 1,688,509 (2023)[14]
(36) Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam 1,686,766 (2023)[14]
(37) National Museum in Kraków Kraków 1,650,792 (2023)[14]
(38) National Museum of African-American History and Culture (Smithsonian Institution ) Washington, D.C.1,600,000 (2023)[14]
(39) Louis Vuitton Foundation Paris1,550,000 (2023)[14]
(40) Museo Reina Sofía Madrid 1,514,854 (2023)[14]
(41) Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Belo Horizonte 1,474,825 (2023)[14]
(42) Musée du quai Branly Paris1,410,000 (2023)[19]
(43) Gyeongju National Museum Gyeongju 1,340,032 (2023)[14]
(44) Upper Belvedere Vienna 1,339,660 (2023)[14]
(45) Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Bilbao 1,324,221 (2023)[20]
(46) Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Rio de Janeiro 1,323,034 (2023)[20]
(47) Art Institute of Chicago Chicago 1,322,195 (2023)[21]
(48) Doge's Palace Venice 1,301,619 (2023)[14]
(49) Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (MUCEM) Marseille 1,300,000 (2023)[22]
(50) Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Glasgow 1,283,882 (2023)[14]
(51) Hong Kong Palace Museum Hong Kong 1,260,000 (2023)[14]
(52)
Hong Kong Museum of Art
Hong Kong
1,257,411 (2023)[14]
(53) Getty Center Los Angeles1,251,134 (2023)[14]
(54) Louvre Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi 1,247,076 (2023)[14]
(55) National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design Oslo 1,246,000 (2023)[14]
(56) Musée de l'Orangerie Paris1,239,539 (2023)[23]
(57) Petit Palais Paris1,187,637 (2023)[24]
(58) Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Wellington 1,181,637 (2023)[14]
(59) Donald W. Reynolds Center (contains two museums, the National Portrait Gallery andSmithsonian American Art Museum ) Washington D.C.1,166,129 (2023)[14]
(60)
National Portrait Gallery
London
1,164,018 (2023)[14]
(61)
Serralves
Porto
1,147,761 (2023)[14]
(62) Tate Britain London1,091,218 (2023)[14]
(63) Royal Ontario Museum Toronto 1,091,120 (2023)[14]
(64) Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens San Marino, California 1,090,475 (2023)[14]
(65) Museo Egizio Turin1,061,157 (2023)[14]
(66) Museu Picasso Barcelona 1,047,094 (2023)[14]
(67) Moscow Kremlin Museums Moscow1,024,610 (2023)[14]
(68) Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum Madrid1,017,684 (2023)[14]
(69) National Gallery of Ireland Dublin 1,017,636 (2023)[14]
(70) De Young Museum San Francisco 999,645 (2023)[14]
(71) Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Houston 999,514 (2023)[14]
(72) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Boston 952,290 (2023)[14]
(73) Albertina Vienna 943,974 (2023)[14]
(74)
Musee d'Art Moderne de Paris
Paris
927,023 (2023)[14]
(75) Tel Aviv Museum of Art Tel Aviv 906,350 (2023)[14]
(76) Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles902,237 (2023)[14]
(77) Ashmolean Museum Oxford 900,277 (2023)[14]
(78)
Royal Palace of Milan
Milan
896,681 (2023)[14]
(79) The Broad Los Angeles895,949 (2023)[14]
(80)
National Museum of Modern Art (MOMAT)
Tokyo
883,596 (2023)[14]
(81) Palazzo Pitti Florence 883,568 (2023)[14]
(82) Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York City861,374 (2023)[14]
(83) Museum of Contemporary Art Australia Sydney 859,386 (2023)[14]
(84)
Art Gallery of Ontario
Toronto
846,835 (2023)[14]
(85) Imperial War Museum London841,575 (2023)[14]
(86) Museum of Fine Arts Budapest 821,491 (2023)[14]
(87)
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Bentonville
784,971 (2023)[14]
(88) Museo Picasso Málaga Málaga 779,279 (2023)[14]
(89) Whitney Museum New York City768,000 (2023)[14]
(90) Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park Grand Rapids Charter Township, Michigan 760,667 (2023)[14]
(91) Fondation Monet in Giverny Giverny 750,000 (2023)[14]
(92)
The Ian Potter Museum of Art
Melbourne
732,114 (2023)[14]
(93)
Dalí Theatre-Museum
Figueres
726,199 (2023)[14]
(94) National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Gwacheon branch) Gwacheon 726,065 (2023)[14]
(95)
Hong Kong Heritage Museum
Hong Kong
724,011 (2023)[14]
(96)
Faberge Museum
St Petersburg
709,982 (2023)[14]
(97) Royal Academy of Arts London709,961 (2023)[14]
(98) Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Humlebæk 702,426 (2023)[14]
(99)
National Museum of the American Indian
Washington D.C.
701,021 (2023)[14]
(100)
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland
685,336 (2023)[14]
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