List of most-visited museums

This is a list of the most-visited museums in the world in 2024, with 2025 figures where they have been published. Primary sources include annual attendance statistics in the Art Newspaper (2025 and 2026), the TEA Global Experience Index for 2024, published October 2025, the annual report of the National Cultural Heritage Administration of the Chinese Government, the Smithsonian News Desk in the United States, the annual report of the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions in the United Kingdom, and museum websites.

NameVisitorsCityCountryLouvre 9,000,000 (2025)Louvre Press Release, 6 January, 2026 Paris National Museum of China 7,031,700 (2025) Beijing Vatican Museums 6,933,822 (2025)The Art Newspaper, March 2026 Vatican City, Rome Shenzhen Museum 6,805,000 (2024)TEA Global Experience Index 2024 (Themed Entertainment Association), published October 2025 Shenzhen National Museum of Korea 6,507,483 (2025) Seoul British Museum 6,440,120 (2025) London China Science and Technology Museum 6,421,000 (2024) Beijing Natural History Museum, South Kensington 6,301,972 (2024)ALVA, April 2025 LondonMetropolitan Museum of Art 5,984,091 (2025) New York CityNanjing Museum 5,680,000 (2024) Nanjing American Museum of Natural History 5,400,000 (2024) New York CityTate Modern 4,603,025 (2024)ALVA, April 1, 2025 London Hubei Provincial Museum4,356,943 (2024)Wuhan Shanghai Museum East 4,230,000 (2024)Conde-Naste Traveller, "The most-visited museums in Asia", 25 August 2025 Shanghai National Gallery of Art 3,936,543 (2024)The Art Newspaper, March 2025 Washington, D.C. National Museum of Natural History 3,900,000 (2024)Smithsonian Institution Newsdesk Visitor Stats, January 2025 Washington, D.C. Musée d'Orsay 3,751,000 (including Musée de l'Orangerie) (2024) ParisNational Museum of Anthropology 3,700,000 (2024) Mexico City State Russian Museum 5,087,276 (2025) Saint Petersburg State Hermitage Museum 3,846,375 (2025)Saint Petersburg Victoria and Albert Museum 3,525,700 (2024) London, South Kensington Prado Museum 3,457,057 (2024) Madrid Centre Pompidou 3,204,369 (2024)Franceinfo Culture, 4 January 2025 Paris National Gallery 3,203,451 (2024)ALVA, April 1, 2025 London Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle 3,200,000 (2024)"Le Figaro", January, 2025 Paris National Air and Space Museum 3,100,000 (2024) Washington, D.C. Mevlana Museum 3,048,000 (2024)Sabah Daily, January 23, 2025 Konya Galleria degli Uffizi 2,908,828 (2024) Florence National Museum of Natural Science 2,854,455 (2024) Taichung London Science Museum 2,827,242 (2024)ALVA survey, April 1, 2025 London Museum of Modern Art 2,657,377 (2024) New York City National Museum of Nature and Science2,634,997 (2024)TokyoM+ 2,610,000 (2024)Conde-Naste Traveler, September 17, 2025 Conde-Naste Traveler, Oct. 13, 2025 Hong Kong State Tretyakov Gallery 3,075,976 (2025) Moscow Rijksmuseum 2,500,000 (2024)The Art Newspaper, April 1 2025 Amsterdam Tokyo National Museum2,460,000 (2024)Conde-Naste Traveler, July 2025TokyoNational 9/11 Museum 2,400,000 (2024)Museum Website, May 2025 New York City Art Gallery of NSW 2,369,339 (2024) Sydney National Museum of Scotland 2,314,974 (2024)ALVA, April 1, 2024 Edinburgh Royal Museums Greenwich 2,255,753 (2024) London Galleria dell'Accademia2,189,103 (2024)Statista 2024 |url=https://www.statista.com/statistics/1034447/number-of-visitors-to-the-gallery-of-the-academy-in-florence/?srsltid=AfmBOooUwN_L2ugX0DqWcvhcla5AIoC-BtjYH6KTFs8zo6zOfAtvEV0x|access-date=05 November 2025FlorenceSmithsonian Museum of American History2,100,000 (2024)Washington, D.C.National Gallery Singapore 2,040,481 (2024) Singapore 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art1,974,773 (2023)KanazawaNational Science and Technology Museum 1,875,372 (2023) Kaohsiung National Palace Museum 1,874,994 (2024) Taipei National Museum in Kraków 1,859,484 (2024) Kraków Van Gogh Museum 1,840,000 (2024) Amsterdam The National Art Center, Tokyo 1,755,036 Tokyo California Science Center 1,700,000 (2024)Center website, May 2024 Los Angeles China National Silk Museum1,692,697 (2023)HangzhouKunsthistorisches Museum 1,688,509 Vienna Fujian Museum1,676,973 (2023)FuzhouHangzhou Arts and Crafts Museum1,641,226 (2023)HangzhouNational Museum of African American History and Culture 1,600,000 (2024) Washington, D.C. National Gallery of Victoria 1,580,303 Melbourne Houston Museum of Natural Science 1,547,000 (2024)Museum website Houston National Museum in Warsaw1,500,655 (2024)WarsawLouis Vuitton Foundation 1,500,000 (2023)CLIC Museum Survey survey, January 2024 Paris Griffin Museum of Science and Industry 1,476,000 (2024) Chicago Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts 1,461,406 Kaohsiung Acropolis Museum 1,451,727Athens Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil 1,364,208 São Paulo Denver Museum of Nature and Science 1,350,000 (2024) Denver Art Institute of Chicago 1,324,241 (2024) Chicago Museum of Science 1,324,000 (2024) Boston Palacio de Cristal del Retiro 1,318,823 Madrid Guggenheim Museum Bilbao1,301,343 (2024)BilbaoGetty Center 1,301,332 (2024) Los Angeles Chinese Aviation Museum1,292,278 (2023)BeijingSmithsonian American Art Museum (with Renwick Gallery) 1,273,450 (2024) Washington, D.C. Moscow Kremlin Museum 1,240,113 (2025) Moscow

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 Palace Museum in Beijing (17,000,000 visitors in 2024) is not included, nor the Chengdu-Wuhou Mausoleum Site (14,500,570) and Emperor Quin-shi-Huang Mausoleum in Xian (11,610,000 visitors in 2024) nor are 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.

List of most-visited museums

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