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This article lists the most visited museums in the world. A museum is defined as a building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, care, research, and exhibition of numerous objects that represent the legacy of humankind and its environment.[1] The primary sources are the Art Newspaper annual report on art museum attendance, and the TEA-AECOM Museum Index, published by the Themed Entertainment Association and AECOM consulting firm; as well as national surveys, such as the National Museum Information Survey of the Chinese Government, and the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA) in Britain.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most museum's total attendance has been drastically lower since 2020. The top twenty museums on the list in 2021 rebounded to 13,433,000, an increase of 70 percent over 2020, but only 33 percent of the total attendance in 2019, before the pandemic.[2]

Criteria for inclusion

This list includes art museums, history museums, natural history museums, and science museums, but does not include archaeological sites, historical monuments, or many palace museums.[a] This article generally follows that guideline, so the Palace of Versailles, the Kremlin, Peterhof Palace, and Forbidden City are not included, even though these sites include some museum collections. Such palace museums are found in the list of most visited palaces and monuments.

The list also includes the Mevlana Museum, a mausoleum and religious shrine which is classified by the Turkish government as a museum. It does not include Hagia Sophia, which the Turkish government reclassified as a mosque in 2020.

Due to differences in reporting across regions, there is some variation in the time periods for which figures are reported. Unless otherwise noted, figures for North America and continental Europe are calendar year figures, while most figures for Britain and Asia-Pacific are fiscal year figures, from April through March.

Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
National Museum of China, Beijing, China
Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, Shanghai, China
China Science and Technology Museum Beijing, China
Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia
Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, United States
Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Vatican Museum, Vatican City

List

2022

Name Location Number of visitors
France Louvre Paris, France 7,800,000[7]
Italy Galleria degli Uffizi Florence, Italy 4,000,000[8]
United States National Museum of Natural History Washington, D.C., United States 3,900,000[9]
Russia Hermitage Museum Saint Petersburg, Russia 2,700,000[10]
France Musée d'Orsay Paris, France 3,200,000[11]
France Centre Pompidou Paris, France 3,000,000[12]
United States Smithsonian Museum of American History Washington, D.C., United States 1,800,000[13]
United States National Air and Space Museum Washington, D.C., United States 418,864[14]

2021

Name Location Number of visitors
National Museum of China China Beijing 2,378,000[15]
Shanghai Science and Technology Museum China Shanghai 2,368,000[16]
China Science and Technology Museum China Beijing 2,360,000[17]
Louvre France Paris 2,285,000
Russian Museum Russia Saint Petersburg 2,260,231[18]
Multimedia Art Museum Russia Moscow 2,242,405[19]
Shanghai Natural History Museum China Shanghai 2,166,000[20]
Nanjing Museum China Nanjing 2,034,000[21]
Metropolitan Museum of Art United States New York City 1,958,000[22]
National Gallery of Art United States Washington, D.C. 1,704,606[23]
Galleria degli Uffizi Italy Florence 1,700,000
State Hermitage Museum Russia Saint Petersburg 1,649,443[24]
Museo Reina Sofía Spain Madrid 1,643,000[25]
Vatican Museums Vatican City Vatican City 1,612,530[26]
Tianjin Natural History Museum China Tianjin 1,600,000[27]
Tretyakov Gallery Russia Moscow 1,580,819[28]
Natural History Museum United Kingdom London 1,571,413[29]
National Museum of Natural Science Taiwan Taichung 1,566,000[30]
Centre Pompidou France Paris 1,500,000
British Museum United Kingdom London 1,327,120[31]
National Taiwan Science Education Center Taiwan Taipei 1,158,000[32]
Museo del Prado Spain Madrid 1,126,875[34]
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Japan Tokyo 1,049,843[35]
France Musée d'Orsay Paris, France 1,044,365
Denver Museum of Nature and Science United States Denver 958,830[36]
London Science Museum United Kingdom London 955,573[37]
Zhejiang Museum China Hangzhou 929,000[38]
Shanghai Museum China Shanghai 880,457[39]
Victoria and Albert Museum United Kingdom London 857,742[40]
National Gallery United Kingdom London 708,924[41]
Royal Museums Greenwich United Kingdom London 686,375[42]
National Museum of Scotland United Kingdom Edinburgh 660,741[43]
Museum Island Germany Berlin 640,000[44]
Rijksmuseum Netherlands Amsterdam 625,000[45]
Deutsches Museum Germany München 517,000[46]
National Museum of Anthropology Mexico Mexico City 477,147[47]
National Palace Museum[b] Taiwan Taipei 416,436 [48]
National Museum of African-American History and Culture United States Washington, D.C. 392,960[49]
Van Gogh Museum Netherlands Amsterdam 366,359[50]
National Museum of History Mexico Mexico City 331,985[47]
Hunan Museum China Changsha 460,000[51]

2020

Name Location Number of visitors
National Museum of Nature and Science Japan Tokyo 580,000[52]
Shaanxi History Museum China Xi'an 1,000,000[53]
Tokyo National Museum Japan Tokyo 725,000[54]
Hubei Provincial Museum China Wuhan 446,000[55]
Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie France Paris 642,416[56]
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Brazil Rio de Janeiro 790,357[57]
National Museum of Korea South Korea Seoul 774,000[58]
California Science Center United States Los Angeles 271,000[58]

2019

Name Location Number of visitors
National Archeological Museum of Naples Italy Naples 670,594[58]
NGV International Australia Melbourne 2,432,883[59]
Chongqing Museum of Natural History China Chongqing 2,624,700[60]
Shenzhen Museum China Shenzhen 3,826,000[60]
Guangdong Museum of Revolutionary History China Guangzhou 4,257,100[60]
Mevlana Museum Turkey Konya 3,464,155[6]
Xi'an Museum China Xi'an 3,420,000[61]
Inner Mongolia Museum China Hohhot 2,361,000[60]
Three Gorges Museum China Chongqing 2,301,900[60]
National Folk Museum of Korea South Korea Seoul 2,286,276[59]
Liaoning Provincial Museum China Shenyang 2,280,000[60]
Chengdu Museum China Chengdu 2,259,000[60]
Guangdong Museum China Guangzhou 2,234,800[60]
Wenzhou Museum China Wenzhou 2,229,900[60]
Suzhou Museum China Suzhou 2,030,000[60]
Jakarta History Museum Indonesia Jakarta 741,487[62]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Some well-attended palace museums are not included in either the Art Newspaper or TEA/AECOM lists, although they are sometimes classified as museums by their respective national cultural agencies. These include Beijing's Palace Museum (which, with 980 buildings and more than 19 million visitors in 2019, was ranked as the most-visited museum by the China Daily News Agency[3]); the Palace of Versailles (8,132,518 visitors in 2018);[4] Peterhof Palace (5,714,700 visitors in 2018), which is formally classified either as a "Дворцо́во-па́рковый анса́мбль, or Palace-Park Ensemble" or as a "Museum-Park Ensemble" by the Russian Ministry of Culture;[5] the Museum of King John III's Palace at Wilanów (3,151,385 visitors in 2018);[4] and Istanbul's Topkapı Palace (2,364,946 visitors in 2019).[6]
  2. ^ Includes only the visitors recorded at the main museum in Taipei, and not visitors recorded at the Southern Branch.

References

  1. ^ "Definition of MUSEUM". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  2. ^ TEA-AECOM Museum index for 2021, published 19 October 2022
  3. ^ "Beijing's Forbidden City ranks most visited museum in the world". China Daily. 5 January 2020. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  4. ^ a b "5 most visited museums". European Group on Museum Statistics. 2018. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
  5. ^ "Музеи. Статистическая информация". Ministry of Culture of Russia. 2019. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  6. ^ a b "Top 10: Turkey's most-visited museums in 2019". Yeni Şafak. 12 February 2020. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  7. ^ [1] FranceInfo Culture, 5 January 2023
  8. ^ ANSA News Agency, January 19,2023
  9. ^ Smithsonian Newsroom, visitor statistics, retrieved February 17, 2023
  10. ^ Novoye Izvestia RuNews-24, 31 December 2022
  11. ^ [2] FranceInfo Culture, 5 January 2023
  12. ^ [3] FranceInfo Culture, 5 January 2023
  13. ^ Smithsonian Newsroom, visitor statistics, retrieved February 17,2023
  14. ^ Smithsonian Newsroom, visitor statistics, retrieved February 17,2023, (Includes attendance at Udvar-Hazy Center)
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  18. ^ "The Art Newspaper", published March 28, 2022
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  29. ^ Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA), (retrieved 3 April 2022)
  30. ^ TEA-AECOM Museum Index for 2020, published September 2021
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  46. ^ https://www.deutsches-museum.de/museum/ueber-uns/jahresbericht
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