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{{See also||List of most-visited art museums|List of most-visited museums by region}}This is a list of the most-visited [[museums]] in the world in 2024 by annual attendance statistics in the “Art Newspaper” (March 2025}! the TEA Museum Survey for 2024, published August 2025, and museum websites.

{{See also||List of most-visited art museums|List of most-visited museums by region}}This is a list of the most-visited [[museums]] in the world in 2024 annual attendance statistics in the “Art Newspaper” (March 2025}! the TEA Museum for 2024, published August 2025, and museum websites.

[[File:Vista exterior del Museo del Louvre.JPG|thumb|right|[[Louvre|Musée du Louvre]], Paris, France]]

[[File:Vista exterior del Museo del Louvre.JPG|thumb|right|[[Louvre|Musée du Louvre]], Paris, France]]

Latest revision as of 18:29, 31 October 2025

This is a list of the most-visited museums in the world in 2024. Primary sources include annual attendance statistics in the “Art Newspaper” (March 2025}! the TEA Museum Index for 2024, published August 2025, the annual report of the National Cultural Heritage Adminstration of the Chinese Government, the annual report of the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions in the United Kingdom, and museum websites.

Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
National Museum of China, Beijing, China
Vatican Museums, Vatican City, Rome
British Museum, London

List of Most-visited museums

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Name Visitors City Country
Louvre 8,700,000 (2024)[1] Paris France
National Museum of China 6,956,800 (2024)[2] Beijing China
Vatican Museums 6,825,436 (2024)[3] Vatican City, Rome Vatican
Shenzhen Museum 6,805,000 (2024) [4] Shenzhen China
British Museum 6,479,952 (2024)[5] London United Kingdom
China Science and Technology Museum 6,421,000 (2024)[6] Beijing China
Natural History Museum, South Kensington 6,301,972 (2024)[7] London United Kingdom
Metropolitan Museum of Art 5,727,258 (2024) [8] New York City United States
Nanjing Museum 5,680,000 (2024)[9] Nanjing China
American Museum of Natural History 5,400,000 (2024) New York City United States
Tate Modern 4,603,025 (2024)[10] London United Kingdom
Hubei Provincial Museum 4,356,943 (2024)[11] Wuhan China
Shanghai Museum East 4,230,000 (2024) [12] Shanghai China
National Gallery of Art 3,936,543 (2024)[13] Washington, D.C. United States
National Museum of Korea 3.78 million (2024)[14] Seoul South Korea
Musée d’Orsay 3,751,000 (including Musée de l’Orangerie) (2024)[15] Paris France
National Museum of Anthropology 3,700,000 (2024) Mexico City Mexico
State Hermitage Museum 3,563,590 (2024)[16] Saint Petersburg Russia
Victoria and Albert Museum 3,525,700 (2024)[17] London, South Kensington United Kingdom
Prado Museum 3,457,057 (2024)[18] Madrid Spain
Centre Pompidou 3,204,369 (2024)[19] Paris France
National Gallery 3,203,451 (2024)[20] London United Kingdom
Musée National d’Histoire Naturelle 3.2 million (2024)[21] Paris France
National Air and Space Museum[a] 3,100,000 (2024)[22] Washington, D.C. United States
Mevlana Museum 3,048,000 (2024)[23] Konya Turkey
National Museum of Natural History 3.0 million (2024)[24] Washington, D.C. United States
Galleria degli Uffizi 2,908,828 (2024)[25] Florence Italy
State Russian Museum 2,900,000 (2023)[26] Saint Petersburg Russia
National Museum of Natural Science 2,854,455 (2024)[27] Taichung Taiwan
Museum of Modern Art 2,657,377 (2024)[28] New York City United States
London Science Museum 2,827,242 (2024)[29] London United Kingdom
Changzhou Museum 2,761,514 (2023)[30] Changzhou China
Shenzhen Museum 2,601,625 (2023)[31] Shenzhen China
M+ 2.61 million (2024) [32] [33] Hong Kong Hong Kong
Guangdong Museum 2,461,600 (2023)[34] Guangzhou China
Museo Nacional de Historia 2,456,825 (2023) Mexico City Mexico
Tokyo National Museum 2,460,000 (2024) [35] Tokyo Japan
Shanxi Museum 2,360,988 (2023)[36] Taiyuan China
National Museum of Scotland 2,314,974 (2024)[37] Edinburgh United Kingdom
Three Gorges Museum 2,279,105 (2023)[38] Chongqing China
Royal Museums Greenwich 2,255,753[39] London United Kingdom
Golestan Palace 2,106,603 (2022)[40] Tehran Iran
Smithsonian Museum of American History 2,100,000 (2024)[41] Washington, D.C. United States
State Tretyakov Gallery 2,524,450 (2024)[42] Moscow Russia
Topography of Terror 2,100,000 (2022)[43] Berlin Germany
Art Gallery of NSW 2,032,098[44] Sydney Australia
Galleria dell’Accademia 2,013,914 (2023)[45] Florence Italy
National Museum in Warsaw 2,000,000 (2022)[46] Warsaw Poland
Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie 1,992,823[47] Paris France
Hebei Museum 1,879,175 (2023)[48] Shijiazhuang China
National Science and Technology Museum 1,875,372[49] Kaohsiung Taiwan
National Palace Museum 1,874,994 (2024)[50] Taipei Taiwan
Belvedere 1,834,000 (2023)[51] Vienna Austria
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art 1,806,641[52] Seoul South Korea
National Gallery Singapore 1,723,916 (2023)[53] Singapore Singapore
California Science Center 1,694,000 (2022)[54] Los Angeles United States
China National Silk Museum 1,692,697 (2023)[55] Hangzhou China
Kunsthistorisches Museum 1,688,509[56] Vienna Austria
Fujian Museum 1,676,973 (2023)[57] Fuzhou China
Hangzhou Arts and Crafts Museum 1,641,226 (2023)[58] Hangzhou China
National Museum in Kraków 1,600,000[59] Kraków Poland
National Gallery of Victoria 1,580,303[52] Melbourne Australia
Louis Vuitton Foundation 1,500,000 (2023)[60] Paris France
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts 1,461,406[49] Kaohsiung Taiwan
Acropolis Museum 1,451,727[52] Athens Greece
The National Art Center, Tokyo 1,400,096[52] Tokyo Japan
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil 1,364,208[52] São Paulo Brazil
Van Gogh Museum 1,840,000 (2024)[52] Amsterdam Netherlands
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao 1,301,343 (2024)[61] Bilbao Spain
Palacio de Cristal del Retiro 1,318,823[b][52] Madrid Spain
Chinese Aviation Museum 1,292,278 (2023)[62] Beijing China

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.

  1. ^ Includes visitors to the Udvar-Hazy Center.
  2. ^ Does not include visitors to the main Reina Sofía museum.
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  4. ^ AECOM Museum Survey (2024) published August 2025
  5. ^ ALVA, March 2025,
  6. ^ TEA-AECOM Museum Survey for 2024, published August 2025
  7. ^ ALVA, April 2025
  8. ^ The Art Newspaper, April 2025
  9. ^ TEA-AECOM Museum Survey for 2024, published August, 2025]
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