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 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 2023 China Science and Technology Museum 5,315,000 2023 Nanjing Museum Nanjing 5,007,000 2023 Suzhou Museum Suzhou 4,852,000 2023 Hunan Museum Hunan 4,852,000 2023 Hubei Provincial Museum Hubei 4,300,000 2023 National Museum of Korea Seoul 4,180,000 2023 Mevlana Museum Konya 3,300,000 2023 National Museum of Natural Science Taichung 2,738,000 2023 M+ Hong Kong 2,798,000 2023 National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul 1,806,641 2022 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Tokyo 1,924,456 2023 The National Art Center, Tokyo 2,250,758 2023 Tokyo National Museum 1,372,132 2022 National Gallery Singapore Singapore 1,723,916 2023 Shanghai Science and Technology Museum Shanghai 494,000 2022 National Palace Museum[iii] Taipei 1,040,000 2022 Zhejiang Provincial Museum Hangzhou 874,000 2022 National Taiwan Science Education Center Taipei 2,468,000 2023 Shaanxi History Museum Xi'an 1,000,000 2020
Europe Europe - Top museums by number of visitors in 2023 Name City Visitors per year Country Year reported Louvre Paris 8,900,000 2023 Vatican Museums Vatican City 6,800,000 2023 British Museum London 5,820,860 2023 Natural History Museum 5,688,608 2023 Musée d'Orsay Paris 5,200,000 2023 Galleria degli Uffizi Florence 5,138,588 2023 Tate Modern London 4,742,038 2023 State Hermitage Museum Saint Petersburg 3,274,000 2023 Victoria and Albert Museum London 3,110,000 2023 Centre Pompidou Paris 3,009,570 2023 London Science Museum London 2,957,000 2023 National Gallery 2,727,119 2023 Rijksmuseum Amsterdam 2,702,824 2023 Museo del Prado Madrid 2,456,724 2023 Tretyakov Gallery Moscow 2,100,000 2023 Galleria dell'Accademia Florence 2,013,974 2023 National Museum in Warsaw Warsaw 2,000,000 2023 Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie Paris 1,992,823 2022 Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam 1,686,766 2023 National Museum in Kraków Kraków 1,600,000 2023 Reina Sofía Madrid 1,514,854 2023 Galata Tower Istanbul 1,300,000 2023
North America Name City Visitors per year Country Year reported Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City 5,727,000 2024 National Museum of Natural History Washington, D.C. 5,400,000 2024 National Gallery of Art 3,937,000 2024 Museum of Modern Art New York City 2,657,000 2024 Smithsonian Museum of American History Washington, D.C. 3,900,000 2024 National Air and Space Museum (with Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center)1,900,000 2025 National Museum of African American History and Culture 1,600,000 2024 Art Institute of Chicago Chicago 1,324,000 2024 ref>
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles 902,237 2022 Getty Center 989,302 2022 Art Gallery of Ontario Toronto 1,000,000 2025 Royal Ontario Museum 796,579 2022 National Gallery of Canada Ottawa 165,854 2022 National Museum of Anthropology Mexico City 1,494,587 2022 National Museum of History 1,486,379 2022 Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology Drumheller, Alberta 501,430 2022 The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens San Marino 1,014,000 2022
Oceania Name City Visitors per year Country Year reported Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney 1,692,028 2023 National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne 1,580,303 2022 Australian National Maritime Museum Sydney 1,093,072 2023 National Gallery of Australia Canberra 1,021,983 2022 Australian Museum Sydney 950,000 2023 Museum of New Zealand Wellington 863,129 2022 Powerhouse Museum (Ultimo) Sydney 583,757 2023 Queensland Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane 271,030 2020 Australian Centre for the Moving Image Melbourne 1,316,000 2016 Museum of Contemporary Art Australia Sydney 1,206,000 2017
South America South America Name City Visitors per year Country Year reported Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Belo Horizonte 1,474,825 2023 Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Rio de Janeiro 1,323,034 2023 Museu Nacional da Republica Brasília 935,168 2017 Instituto Tomie Othake São Paulo 895,769 2017 Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo 880,000 2023 Museu do Ipiranga 655,759 2023 São Paulo Museum of Art 530,235 2023 Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires Buenos Aires 515,000 2023
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