List of most visited museums by region

This is a list of the top twenty most visited museums in each region, based upon the annual reports of museum attendance from the Art Newspaper Review and the Museum Index of the Themed Entertainment Association. Museums not on either list are not included.

Europe

Europe - Top twenty Museums by number of visitors per year
Name	Country flag, city	Visitors per year	Year reported
Louvre	Paris	8,100,000	2017[1]
Vatican Museums	Vatican City	6,427,000	2017[2]
British Museum	London	5,906,716	2017[3]
Tate Modern	London	5,656,004	2017[3]
National Gallery	London	5,229,192	2017[3]
Natural History Museum	London	4,434,520	2017[3]
State Hermitage Museum	Saint Petersburg	4,200,000	2017[4]
Reina Sofía	Madrid	3,880,812	2017[5]
Victoria and Albert Museum	London	3,789,748	2017[3]
Centre Pompidou	Paris	3,370,872	2017[6]
London Science Museum	London	3,251,000	2017[3]
Somerset House	London	3,223,350	2017[3]
Musée d'Orsay	Paris	3,177,842	2017[7]
Museo del Prado	Madrid	2,824,404	2017[8]
Royal Museums Greenwich	London	2,607,099	2017[3]
Moscow Kremlin Museums	Moscow	2,746,405	2017[9]
Van Gogh Museum	Amsterdam	2,255,010	2017[10]
Galleria degli Uffizi	Florence	2,235,355	2017[11]
Tretyakov Gallery	Moscow	2,325,759	2017[12]
Rijksmuseum	Amsterdam	2,160,000	2017[13]

North America

North America: Top twenty museums by number of visitors per year
Name	Country flag, city	Visitors per year	Year reported
National Air and Space Museum	Washington, D.C.	7,000,000	2017[14][15]
Metropolitan Museum of Art	New York City	6,692,909	2017[16]
National Museum of Natural History	Washington, D.C.	6,000,000	2017[15][17]
National Gallery of Art	Washington, D.C.	5,232,277	2017 [18][19]
American Museum of Natural History	New York City	5,000,000	2017[20][21]
National Museum of American History	Washington, D.C.	3,800,000	2017[15][22]
Museum of Modern Art	New York City	2,752,719	2017[23]
National Museum of African American History and Culture	Washington, D.C.	2,400,000	2017[15][24]
National Museum of Anthropology	Mexico City	2,336,115	2017[25]
Houston Museum of Natural Science	Houston	2,295,000	2017[26]
National Museum of History	Mexico City	2,135,465	2017[25]
California Science Center	Los Angeles	2,106,000	2017[27]
Denver Museum of Nature and Science	Denver	1,800,000	2017[28]
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum	Washington, D.C.	1,700,000	2017[29]
Field Museum of Natural History	Chicago	1,800,000	2017[30]
Art Institute of Chicago	Chicago	1,619,316	2017[31]
Udvar-Hazy Center[32]	Washington, D.C.	1,600,000	2017[33][34]
Getty Center	Los Angeles	1,451,801	2017[35]
Royal Ontario Museum	Toronto	1,389,696	2017[36]
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts	Montreal	1,323,837	2017[37]

Asia

Asia - Top twenty museums by number of visitors per year
Name	City	Visitors annually	Year reported
National Museum of China	Beijing	8,062,625	2017[38][39]
Shanghai Science and Technology Museum	Shanghai	6,421,000	2017[40]
National Palace Museum[iii]	Taipei	4,436,118	2017[41][42]
China Science and Technology Museum	Beijing	3,983,000	2017[43]
Zhejiang Provincial Museum	Hangzhou	3,670,000	2017[44]
National Museum of Korea	Seoul	3,476,606	2017[45]
Gansu Provincial Museum	Lanzhou	3,300,000	2017[46]
Nanjing Museum	Nanjing	3,300,000	2017[47]
National Museum of Natural Science	Taichung	3,115,000	2017[48]
Chengdu Museum	Chengdu	3,000,000	2017[49]
National Art Center	Tokyo	2,987,000	2017[50][51]
National Science Education Center	Taipei	2,869,000	2017[52]
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum	Tokyo	2,723,955	2017[53]
Shaanxi History Museum	Xi'an	2,700,000	2017[54]
National Museum of Nature and Science	Tokyo	2,600,000	2017[55]
Tokyo National Museum	Tokyo	2,180,000	2017[56][57]
Shanghai Museum	Shanghai	2,109,200	2017[58][59]
Three Gorges Museum	Chongqing	2,112,000	2017[60][61]
National Science and Technology Museum	Kaohsiung	1,981,000	2017[62]
National Folk Museum of Korea	Seoul	1,813,626	2017[63]

Australia and New Zealand

Australia and New Zealand
Name	Country flag, city	Visitors per year	Year reported
National Gallery of Victoria	Melbourne	2,810,696	2017[64]
Queensland Gallery of Modern Art	Brisbane	1,425,826	2017[65]
Art Gallery of New South Wales	Sydney	1,349,000	2017[66]
Australian Centre for the Moving Image	Melbourne	1,316,000	2016[67]
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia	Sydney	1,206,000	2017[68]
National Gallery of Australia	Canberra	782,828	2017[69]

South America

South America
Name	Country flag, city	Visitors per year	Year reported
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil	Rio de Janeiro	1,337,566	2017[70]
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil	Brasília	1,229,432	2017[71]
Museu Nacional da Republica	Brasilia	935,168	2017[72]
Instituto Tomie Otake	Sao Paolo	895,769	2017[73]

Notes

^i Includes visitors recorded at all three Metropolitan Museum of Art sites, such as the 505,590 visitors recorded at the Met Breuer.

^iii Includes only the visitors recorded at the main museum in Taipei, and not the 991,666 visitors recorded at the Southern Branch.

^iii Includes only the visitors recorded at the main museum in Taipei, and not the visitors recorded at the Southern Branch.

^iv Includes the Canadian Museum of History and the Canadian War Museum.

See also

• List of most visited museums
• List of most visited art museums
• List of most visited palaces and monuments

References