# List of most-visited art museums

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.
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.

## Visitors in 2023–24

| Rank in 2023 | Museum | Country and city | Visitors annually |
| (1) | Louvre | Paris | 8,700,000 (2024) (down 200,000 from 2023) |
| (2) | Vatican Museums | Vatican City, Rome | 6,765,000 (2023) |
| (3) | National Museum of China | Beijing | 6,757,000 (2023) |
| (3) | British Museum | London | 5,820,860 (2023) (up 42 percent from 2022) |
| (4) | Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York City | 5,364,000 (2023) |
| (5) | Uffizi Gallery | Florence | 5,138,588 (2023) (up 26,37 percent from 2022) |
| (6) | Tate Modern | London | 4,742,038 (2023) |
| (7) | National Gallery | London | 4,287,434 (2023) |
| (8) | National Museum of Korea | Seoul | 4,180,285 (2023) |
| (9) | Musée d'Orsay | Paris | 4,949,835 (2024) |
| (10) | National Gallery of Art | Washington, D.C. | 3,829,812 (2023) |
| (11) | Museo del Prado | Madrid | 3,457,057 (2024) |
| (12) | State Hermitage Museum | Saint Petersburg | 3,273,753 (2023) |
| (13) | Victoria and Albert Museum | London | 3,110,000 (2023) (up 28 percent from 2022) |
| (14) | State Russian Museum | Saint Petersburg | 2,900,000 (2023) |
| (15) | Museum of Modern Art | New York City | 2,839,509 (2023) |
| (16) | M+ | Hong Kong | 2,797,616 (2023) |
| (17) | Somerset House | London | 2,727,677 (2023) (up 28 percent from 2022) |
| (18) | Rijksmuseum | Amsterdam | 2,702,824 (2023) |
| (19) | Musée National d'Art Moderne (Centre Pompidou) | Paris | 2,621,696 (2023) |
| (20) | Wawel Castle | Kraków | 2,561,000 (2023) |
| (21) | The National Art Center, Tokyo | Tokyo | 2,250,758 (2023) |
| (22) | 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art | Kanazawa | 2,230,939 (2023) |
| (23) | National Museum of Scotland | Edinburgh | 2,186,841 (2023) (up 56 percent from 2022) |
| (24) | Tretyakov Gallery | Moscow | 2,100,000 (2023) |
| (25) | Royal Castle, Warsaw | Warsaw | 2,023,642 (2023) |
| (26) | National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul branch) | Seoul | 2,021,771 (2023) |
| (27) | Galleria dell'Accademia | Florence | 2,013,974 (2023) |
| (28) | Art Gallery of New South Wales | Sydney | 1,945,810 (2023) |
| (29) | Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum | Tokyo | 1,924,456 (2023) |
| (30) | Acropolis Museum | Athens | 1,904,456 (2023) |
| (31) | National Palace Museum | Taipei | 1,874,994 (2024) |
| (32) | Scottish National Gallery | Edinburgh | 1,836,057 (2023) |
| (32) | NGV International (National Gallery of Victoria) | Melbourne | 1,800,124 (2023), |
| (33) | National Gallery Singapore | Singapore | 1,723,916 (2023) |
| (34) | Humboldt Forum | Berlin | 1,700,000 (2023) |
| (35) | Kunsthistorisches Museum | Vienna | 1,688,509 (2023) |
| (36) | Van Gogh Museum | Amsterdam | 1,686,766 (2023) |
| (37) | National Museum in Kraków | Kraków | 1,650,792 (2023) |
| (38) | National Museum of African-American History and Culture (Smithsonian Institution) | Washington, D.C. | 1,600,000 (2023) |
| (39) | Louis Vuitton Foundation | Paris | 1,550,000 (2023) |
| (40) | Museo Reina Sofía | Madrid | 1,514,854 (2023) |
| (41) | Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil | Belo Horizonte | 1,474,825 (2023) |
| (42) | Musée du quai Branly | Paris | 1,410,000 (2023) |
| (43) | Gyeongju National Museum | Gyeongju | 1,340,032 (2023) |
| (44) | Upper Belvedere | Vienna | 1,339,660 (2023) |
| (45) | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao | Bilbao | 1,324,221 (2023) |
| (46) | Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil | Rio de Janeiro | 1,323,034 (2023) |
| (47) | Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago | 1,322,195 (2023) |
| (48) | Doge's Palace | Venice | 1,301,619 (2023) |
| (49) | Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (MUCEM) | Marseille | 1,300,000 (2023) |
| (50) | Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum | Glasgow | 1,283,882 (2023) |
| (51) | Hong Kong Palace Museum | Hong Kong | 1,260,000 (2023) |
| (52) | Hong Kong Museum of Art | Hong Kong | 1,257,411 (2023) |
| (53) | Getty Center | Los Angeles | 1,251,134 (2023) |
| (54) | Louvre Abu Dhabi | Abu Dhabi | 1,247,076 (2023) |
| (55) | National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design | Oslo | 1,246,000 (2023) |
| (56) | Musée de l'Orangerie | Paris | 1,239,539 (2023) |
| (57) | Petit Palais | Paris | 1,187,637 (2023) |
| (58) | Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa | Wellington | 1,181,637 (2023) |
| (59) | Donald W. Reynolds Center (contains two museums, the National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum) | Washington D.C. | 1,166,129 (2023) |
| (60) | National Portrait Gallery | London | 1,164,018 (2023) |
| (61) | Serralves | Porto | 1,147,761 (2023) |
| (62) | Tate Britain | London | 1,091,218 (2023) |
| (63) | Royal Ontario Museum | Toronto | 1,091,120 (2023) |
| (64) | Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens | San Marino, California | 1,090,475 (2023) |
| (65) | Museo Egizio | Turin | 1,061,157 (2023) |
| (66) | Museu Picasso | Barcelona | 1,047,094 (2023) |
| (67) | Moscow Kremlin Museums | Moscow | 1,024,610 (2023) |
| (68) | Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum | Madrid | 1,017,684 (2023) |
| (69) | National Gallery of Ireland | Dublin | 1,017,636 (2023) |
| (70) | De Young Museum | San Francisco | 999,645 (2023) |
| (71) | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | Houston | 999,514 (2023) |
| (72) | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Boston | 952,290 (2023) |
| (73) | Albertina | Vienna | 943,974 (2023) |
| (74) | Musee d'Art Moderne de Paris | Paris | 927,023 (2023) |
| (75) | Tel Aviv Museum of Art | Tel Aviv | 906,350 (2023) |
| (76) | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Los Angeles | 902,237 (2023) |
| (77) | Ashmolean Museum | Oxford | 900,277 (2023) |
| (78) | Royal Palace of Milan | Milan | 896,681 (2023) |
| (79) | The Broad | Los Angeles | 895,949 (2023) |
| (80) | National Museum of Modern Art (MOMAT) | Tokyo | 883,596 (2023) |
| (81) | Palazzo Pitti | Florence | 883,568 (2023) |
| (82) | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | New York City | 861,374 (2023) |
| (83) | Museum of Contemporary Art Australia | Sydney | 859,386 (2023) |
| (84) | Art Gallery of Ontario | Toronto | 846,835 (2023) |
| (85) | Imperial War Museum | London | 841,575 (2023) |
| (86) | Museum of Fine Arts | Budapest | 821,491 (2023) |
| (87) | Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art | Bentonville | 784,971 (2023) |
| (88) | Museo Picasso Málaga | Málaga | 779,279 (2023) |
| (89) | Whitney Museum | New York City | 768,000 (2023) |
| (90) | Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park | Grand Rapids Charter Township, Michigan | 760,667 (2023) |
| (91) | Fondation Monet in Giverny | Giverny | 750,000 (2023) |
| (92) | Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia (National Gallery of Victoria) | Melbourne | 732,114 (2023) |
| (93) | Dalí Theatre-Museum | Figueres | 726,199 (2023) |
| (94) | National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Gwacheon branch) | Gwacheon | 726,065 (2023) |
| (95) | Hong Kong Heritage Museum | Hong Kong | 724,011 (2023) |
| (96) | Faberge Museum | St Petersburg | 709,982 (2023) |
| (97) | Royal Academy of Arts | London | 709,961 (2023) |
| (98) | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art | Humlebæk | 702,426 (2023) |
| (99) | National Museum of the American Indian | Washington D.C. | 701,021 (2023) |
| (100) | Cleveland Museum of Art | Cleveland | 685,336 (2023) |