This is a list of the most-visited museums in the world, per annual attendance statistics. Many museums have not reported 2023 figures as of February 2024. These museums show their 2022 attendance.

Total museum attendance in 2023 continued to recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, although attendance for most museums remained lower than before 2020. Among the top 100 art museums in 2022, total attendance was 141 million visitors, double the number in 2021 and three times the number for 2020, but still well below the 2019 figure of 230 million visitors.^[1]

Most-visited museums in 2023 and 2022

Name	Location	Visitors in 2023 and 2022
Louvre	Paris, France	8,900,000 (2023)[2]
Musée d'Orsay	Paris, France	5.2 million (including Musée de l'Orangerie) (2023)[3]
National Museum of Natural History	Washington, D.C., United States	4,400,000 (2023)[4]
National Museum of Korea	Seoul, South Korea	4.18 million (2023)[5]
Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle	Paris, France	3.8 million (2023)[7]
National Air and Space Museum[a]	Washington, D.C., United States	3,100,000 (2023)[8]
Prado Museum	Madrid, Spain	3,209,285 (2023)[10]
National Museum of Anthropology	Mexico City, Mexico	2,636,352 (2023)
Museo Nacional de Historia	Mexico City, Mexico	2,456,825 (2023)
Smithsonian Museum of American History	Washington, D.C., United States	2,100,000 (2023)[11]
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao	Bilbao, Spain	1,324,000 (2023)[12]
Vatican Museums	Vatican City	5,080,866 (This and figures below are from 2022)[13]
Natural History Museum	London, United Kingdom	4,654,608[14](2022)
British Museum	London, United Kingdom	4,097,253[1][14] (2022)
Tate Modern	London, United Kingdom	3,883,160[14] (2022)
Guangdong Museum	Guangzhou, China	3,359,700[15] (2022)
Mevlana Museum	Konya, Turkey	3,352,505[16](2022)
Metropolitan Museum of Art	New York City, United States	3,208,832[b][1] (2022)
State Hermitage Museum	Saint Petersburg, Russia	2,812,913[1] (2022)
National Gallery	London, United Kingdom	2,727,119[14] (2022)
State Russian Museum	Saint Petersburg, Russia	2,651,688[1] (figures below are from 2022)
National Museum of Marine Science and Technology	Keelung, Taiwan	2,582,444[17]
Victoria and Albert Museum	London, United Kingdom	2,370,261[14]
London Science Museum	London, United Kingdom	2,334,930[14]
Chinese Aviation Museum	Beijing, China	2,300,000[18]
National Museum of Natural Science	Taichung, Taiwan	2,299,808[17]
Galleria degli Uffizi	Florence, Italy	2,222,692[1]
Museum of Modern Art	New York City, United States	2,190,440[1]
Topography of Terror	Berlin, Germany	2,100,000[19]
M+	Hong Kong, China	2,034,331[1]
Opium War Museum [zh]	Dongguan, China	2,025,800[20]
Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie	Paris, France	1,992,823[21]
National Museum of Scotland	Edinburgh, United Kingdom	1,973,751[14]
State Tretyakov Gallery	Moscow, Russia	1,910,000[1]
National Taiwan Science Education Center	Taipei, Taiwan	1,878,504[17]
National Science and Technology Museum	Kaohsiung, Taiwan	1,875,372[17]
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art	Seoul, South Korea	1,806,641[1]
Rijksmuseum	Amsterdam, Netherlands	1,766,084[22]
California Science Center	Los Angeles, United States	1,694,000[23]
National Museum of China	Beijing, China	1,630,911[24]
Royal Museums Greenwich	London, United Kingdom	1,628,580[14]
Nanjing Museum	Nanjing, China	1,610,000[25]
Zhejiang Museum of Natural History	Hangzhou, China	1,581,263[26]
National Gallery of Victoria	Melbourne, Australia	1,580,303[1]
Jianchuan Museum Cluster	Chengdu, China	1,538,143[27]
Houston Museum of Natural Science	Houston, United States	1,520,000[23]
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum	Tokyo, Japan	1,509,970[1]
Changzhou Museum	Changzhou, China	1,508,229[28]
Humboldt Forum	Berlin, Germany	1,500,000[1]
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts	Kaohsiung, Taiwan	1,461,406[17]
Acropolis Museum	Athens, Greece	1,451,727[1]
China Science and Technology Museum	Beijing, China	1,431,189[29]
Galleria dell'Accademia	Florence, Italy	1,428,369[1]
Suzhou Museum	Suzhou, China	1,417,412[30]
Chengdu Museum	Chengdu, China	1,404,735[31]
Shanghai Science and Technology Museum	Shanghai, China	1,403,179[32]
The National Art Center, Tokyo	Tokyo, Japan	1,400,096[1]
Louis Vuitton Foundation	Paris, France	1,500,000 (2023)[33]
Tokyo National Museum	Tokyo, Japan	1,372,132[1]
National Museum in Kraków	Kraków, Poland	1,365,425[1]
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil	São Paulo, Brazil	1,364,208[1]
Van Gogh Museum	Amsterdam, Netherlands	1,364,023[1]
National Museum of Nature and Science	Tokyo, Japan	1,350,000[23]
Kunsthistorisches Museum	Vienna, Austria	1,345,617[1]
Tianjin Natural History Museum	Tianjin, China	1,320,752[34]
Palacio de Cristal del Retiro	Madrid, Spain	1,318,823[c][1]
Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations	Marseille, France	1,300,000 (2023)
Scottish National Gallery	Edinburgh, United Kingdom	1,277,230[1]
National Gallery Singapore	Singapore	1,262,189[1]
Museo Reina Sofía	Madrid, Spain	1,253,183[d][1]

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 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.