List of most visited art museums in the world

This article lists the most visited art museums in the world. This list of 100 is based on an attendance survey compiled by The Art Newspaper published in April 2013.

The country with the highest number of visitors in the top 100 is the United Kingdom. The country with the most museums appearing in the list is the United States.

The list also includes exhibition centers organizing temporary art displays. Several major art museums, such as the Palace Museum in Beijing, which annually draw close to 12 million visitors, the Museo del Prado in Madrid, with 2,800,000 visitors in 2012, and the National Museum of Anthropology of Mexico City, with 1,767,092 visitors in 2011, were not included.

Annual fluctuations occur due to the popularity of special exhibitions and improved collections. For example, the National Gallery of Victoria 2,800,000 visitors in 2017, placing it well into the top 20.

 Rank  Museum  City  Country  Visitor Count   Louvre  Paris   France 9,720,260   Metropolitan Museum of Art  New York   USA 6,115,881   British Museum  London   UK 5,575,946   Tate Modern  London   UK  5,304,710   National Gallery  London   UK 5,163,902   Vatican Museums  Vatican City    5,064,546   National Palace Museum  Taipei    4,360,815   National Gallery of Art  Washington   USA  4,200,000   Centre Pompidou  Paris   France  3,800,000   Musée d'Orsay  Paris   France   3,600,000   Victoria & Albert Museum  London   UK 3,231,700   National Museum of Korea  Seoul   South Korea  3,128,550   Hermitage Museum  St Petersburg   Russia  2,882,385   Museum of Modern Art  New York   USA  2,805,659   Museo del Prado  Madrid   Spain 2,800,000   National Folk Museum of Korea  Seoul   South Korea 2,640,264   Museo Reina Sofía  Madrid   Spain 2,565,000   Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil  Rio de Janeiro   Brazil 2,235,354   National Portrait Gallery  London   UK  2,096,858   Shanghai Museum  Shanghai   China  1,944,820   National Museum of Scotland  Edinburgh    1,893,521   Galleria degli Uffizi  Florence   Italy 1,769,217   Moscow Kremlin  Moscow    1,735,600   National Galleries of Scotland  Edinburgh    1,604,105   J. Paul Getty Museum  Los Angeles    1,590,608

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