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This is a list of the most visited museums in each region in 2023, based upon the annual reports of museum attendance from the Art Newspaper Review, and from official national sources. If 2023 figures are not available, earlier figures are shown, with the year indicated.

Asia

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Asia - Top twenty museums by number of visitors per year
Name City Visitors annually Country Year reported
National Museum of China Beijing 6,757,000  China 2023[1]
China Science and Technology Museum Beijing 5,315,000  China 2023[2]
Nanjing Museum Nanjing 5,007,000  China 2023[3]
Suzhou Museum Suzhou 4,852,000  China 2023[4]
Hunan Museum Hunan 4,852,000  China 2023[5]
Hubei Provincial Museum Hubei 4,300,000  China 2023[6]
National Museum of Korea Seoul 4,180,000  South Korea 2023[7]
National Museum of Natural Science Taichung 2,738,000  Taiwan 2023[8]
M+ Hong Kong 2,798,000  Hong Kong 2023[9]
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul 1,806,641  South Korea 2022[10]
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Tokyo 1,924,456  Japan 2023[11]
The National Art Center, Tokyo 2,250,758 2023[12]
Tokyo National Museum 1,372,132 2022[13]
National Gallery Singapore Singapore 1,723,916  Singapore 2023[14]
Shanghai Science and Technology Museum Shanghai 494,000 2022[15]
National Palace Museum[iii] Taipei 1,040,000  Taiwan 2022[16]
Zhejiang Provincial Museum Hangzhou 874,000 2022[17]
National Taiwan Science Education Center Taipei 2,468,000  Taiwan 2023[18]
Shaanxi History Museum Xi'an 1,000,000  China 2020[19]
National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo 2,500,000  Japan 2023[20]
Shanghai Museum Shanghai 604,090  China 2020[21]

Europe

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Europe - Top museums by number of visitors in 2023
Name City Visitors per year Country Year reported
Louvre Paris 8,900,000  France 2023[22]
Vatican Museums Vatican City 6,800,000  Vatican 2023[23]
British Museum London 5,820,860  United Kingdom 2023[24]
Natural History Museum London 5,688,608  United Kingdom 2023[25]
Musée d'Orsay Paris 5.2 million  France 2023[23]
Galleria degli Uffizi Florence 5,138,588  Italy 2023[23]
Tate Modern London 4,742,038  United Kingdom 2023[26]
Centre Pompidou Paris 3,009,570  France 2023[23]
National Gallery London 2,727,119  United Kingdom 2023[23]
State Hermitage Museum Saint Petersburg 3,274,000  Russia 2023[27]
Museo del Prado Madrid 2,456,724  Spain 2023[23]
Victoria and Albert Museum London 3,110,000  United Kingdom 2023[28][23]
London Science Museum 2,957,000 2023[29]
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam 2,702,824  Netherlands 2023[23]
Galleria dell'Accademia Florence 2,013,974  Italy 2023[23]
Tretyakov Gallery Moscow 2,100,000  Russia 2023[23]
Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie Paris 1,992,823  France 2022[23]
Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam 1,686,766  Netherlands 2023[23]
Reina Sofía Madrid 1,514,854  Spain 2023[23]

North America

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Name City Visitors per year Country Year reported
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City 5,364,000  United States 2023[30]
National Museum of Natural History Washington, D.C. 4,400,000  United States 2023[31]
National Gallery of Art 3,829,812 2023[32]
Museum of Modern Art New York City 2,839,509 2023[33]
Smithsonian Museum of American History Washington, D.C. 2,100,000 2023[34]
National Air and Space Museum (with Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center) 3,100,000 2023[35]
National Museum of African American History and Culture 1,600,000 2023[36]
Art Institute of Chicago Chicago 1,300,000 2023[37]
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles 902,237 2022[38]
Getty Center 989,302 2022[39]
Royal Ontario Museum Toronto 796,579  Canada 2022[40]
National Gallery of Canada|Ottawa 165,854 2022[41]
National Museum of Anthropology Mexico City 1,494,587  Mexico 2022[42]
National Museum of History 1,486,379 2022[43]
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology Drumheller, Alberta 501,430  Canada 2022

Oceania

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Name City Visitors per year Country Year reported
Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney 1,692,028  Australia 2023[44]
National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne 1,580,303 2022[45]
Australian National Maritime Museum Sydney 1,093,072 2023[46]
National Gallery of Australia Canberra 1,021,983 2022[47]
Australian Museum Sydney 950,000 2023[48]
Museum of New Zealand Wellington 863,129  New Zealand 2022[49]
Powerhouse Museum (Ultimo) Sydney 583,757  Australia 2023[50]
Queensland Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane 271,030 2020[51]
Australian Centre for the Moving Image Melbourne 1,316,000 2016[52]
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia Sydney 1,206,000 2017[53]

South America

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South America
Name City Visitors per year Country Year reported
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Belo Horizonte 1,474,825  Brazil 2023[54]
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Rio de Janeiro 1,323,034 2023[54]
Museu Nacional da Republica Brasilia 935,168 2017[53]
Instituto Tomie Othake São Paulo 895,769 2017[53]
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo 880,000 2023[55]
Museu do Ipiranga 655,759 2023[56]
São Paulo Museum of Art 530,235 2023[57]
Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires Buenos Aires 515,000  Argentina 2023[58]

See also

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References

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