# List of most-visited museums

This is a list of the most-visited museums in the world in 2023 by annual attendance statistics. Total attendance at the top sixty museums in 2023, as reported by the annual TEA-AECOM Museum survey, reached 94 percent of 2019 levels, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

## Most-visited museums in 2023–24

| Name | Visitors in 2023 or 2022 | City | Country |
| Louvre | 8,700,000 (2024) | Paris | France |
| Vatican Museums | 6,800,000 (2023) | Vatican City, Rome | Vatican |
| National Museum of China | 6,765,000 (2023) | Beijing | China |
| British Museum | 5,820,860 (2023) | London | United Kingdom |
| Natural History Museum | 5,688,608 (2023) | London | United Kingdom |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | 5,400,000 (2023) | New York City | United States |
| American Museum of Natural History | 5,400,000 (2023) | New York City | United States |
| China Science and Technology Museum | 5,315,000 (2023) | Beijing | China |
| Galleria degli Uffizi | 5,138,588 (2023) | Florence | Italy |
| Nanjing Museum | 5,007,000 (2023) | Nanjing | China |
| Musée d'Orsay | 4.9 million (including Musée de l'Orangerie) (2024) | Paris | France |
| Suzhou Museum | 4,852,000 (2023) | Suzhou | China |
| Tate Modern | 4,742,038 (2023) | London | United Kingdom |
| National Museum of Natural History | 4,400,000 (2023) | Washington, D.C. | United States |
| National Museum of Korea | 4.18 million (2023) | Seoul | South Korea |
| Guangdong Museum | 4,000,000 (2023) | Guangzhou | China |
| National Gallery of Art | 3,829,812 (2023) | Washington, D.C. | United States |
| Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle | 3.8 million (2023) | Paris | France |
| State Hermitage Museum | 3,273,753 (2023) | Saint Petersburg | Russia |
| Prado Museum | 3,338,285 (2023) | Madrid | Spain |
| Palace and Garden of Sa'dabad | 3,121,000 (2022) | Tehran | Iran |
| Victoria and Albert Museum | 3,110,000 (2023) | London | United Kingdom |
| National Air and Space Museum | 3,100,000 (2024) | Washington, D.C. | United States |
| National Gallery | 3,096,508 (2023) | London | United Kingdom |
| Museum of Modern Art | 2,839,509 (2023) | New York City | United States |
| National Museum of Anthropology | 2,636,352 (2023) | Mexico City | Mexico |
| Centre Pompidou | 2,611,000 (2023) | Paris | France |
| Museo Nacional de Historia | 2,456,825 (2023) | Mexico City | Mexico |
| Golestan Palace | 2,106,603 (2022) | Tehran | Iran |
| Smithsonian Museum of American History | 2,100,000 (2024) | Washington, D.C. | United States |
| Galleria dell'Accademia | 2,013,914 (2023) | Florence | Italy |
| National Museum in Warsaw | 2,000,000 (2022) | Warsaw | Poland |
| Guggenheim Museum Bilbao | 1,324,000 (2023) | Bilbao | Spain |
| Mevlana Museum | 3,352,505 (2022) | Konya | Turkey |
| State Russian Museum | 2,900,000 (2023) | Saint Petersburg | Russia |
| National Museum of Marine Science and Technology | 2,726,000 (2023) | Keelung | Taiwan |
| London Science Museum | 2,957,000 (2023) | London | United Kingdom |
| M+ | 2,798,000 (2023) | Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
| National Museum of Nature and Science | 2,694,021 (2023) | Tokyo | Japan |
| Chinese Aviation Museum | 2,300,000 (2022) | Beijing | China |
| Topography of Terror | 2,100,000 (2022) | Berlin | Germany |
| Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie | 1,992,823 | Paris | France |
| National Museum of Scotland | 2,188,6411 (2023) | Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
| State Tretyakov Gallery | 2,100,000 (2023) | Moscow | Russia |
| National Science and Technology Museum | 1,875,372 | Kaohsiung | Taiwan |
| National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art | 1,806,641 | Seoul | South Korea |
| Rijksmuseum | 2,702,824 (2023) | Amsterdam | Netherlands |
| Belvedere | 1,834,000 (2023) | Vienna | Austria |
| National Gallery Singapore | 1,723,916 (2023) | Singapore | Singapore |
| California Science Center | 1,694,000 | Los Angeles | United States |
| Art Gallery of NSW | 1,692,028 | Sydney | Australia |
| Royal Museums Greenwich | 1,628,580 | London | United Kingdom |
| Zhejiang Museum of Natural History | 1,581,263 | Hangzhou | China |
| National Gallery of Victoria | 1,580,303 | Melbourne | Australia |
| National Palace Museum | >1,550,000 | Taipei | Taiwan |
| Jianchuan Museum Cluster | 1,538,143 | Chengdu | China |
| Houston Museum of Natural Science | 1,520,000 | Houston | United States |
| Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum | 1,509,970 | Tokyo | Japan |
| Changzhou Museum | 1,508,229 | Changzhou | China |
| Humboldt Forum | 1,500,000 | Berlin | Germany |
| Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts | 1,461,406 | Kaohsiung | Taiwan |
| Acropolis Museum | 1,451,727 | Athens | Greece |
| China Science and Technology Museum | 1,431,189 | Beijing | China |
| Suzhou Museum | 1,417,412 | Suzhou | China |
| Chengdu Museum | 1,404,735 | Chengdu | China |
| Shanghai Science and Technology Museum | 1,403,179 | Shanghai | China |
| The National Art Center, Tokyo | 1,400,096 | Tokyo | Japan |
| Louis Vuitton Foundation | 1,500,000 (2023) | Paris | France |
| Tokyo National Museum | 1,372,132 | Tokyo | Japan |
| National Museum in Kraków | 1,600,000 | Kraków | Poland |
| Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil | 1,364,208 | São Paulo | Brazil |
| Van Gogh Museum | 1,364,023 | Amsterdam | Netherlands |
| Kunsthistorisches Museum | 1,688,509 | Vienna | Austria |
| Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo | 1,321,834 | Rome | Italy |
| Tianjin Natural History Museum | 1,320,752 | Tianjin | China |
| Palacio de Cristal del Retiro | 1,318,823 | Madrid | Spain |
| Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations | 1,300,000 (2023) | Marseille | France |
| Scottish National Gallery | 1,277,230 | Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
| Museo Reina Sofía | 1,253,183 | Madrid | Spain |
| Galata Tower | 1,250,000 (2023) | Istanbul | Turkey |

## 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.