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
NameCountry flag, cityVisitors per yearYear reported
Louvre Paris10,200,0002018[1]
Vatican Museums Vatican City6,427,0002017[2]
British Museum London5,906,7162017[3]
Tate Modern London5,656,0042017[3]
National Gallery London5,229,1922017[3]
Natural History Museum London4,434,5202017[3]
State Hermitage Museum Saint Petersburg4,200,0002017[2]
Reina Sofía Madrid3,880,8122017[2]
Victoria and Albert Museum London3,789,7482017[3]
Centre Pompidou Paris3,370,8722017[2]
London Science Museum London3,251,0002017[3]
Somerset House London3,223,3502017[3]
Musée d'Orsay Paris3,177,8422017[2]
Museo del Prado Madrid2,824,4042017[2]
Royal Museums Greenwich London2,607,0992017[3]
Moscow Kremlin Museums Moscow2,746,4052017[2]
Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam2,255,0102017[2]
Galleria degli Uffizi Florence2,235,3552017[2]
Tretyakov Gallery Moscow2,325,7592017[2]
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam2,160,0002017[2]

North America
North America: Top twenty museums by number of visitors per year
NameCountry flag, cityVisitors per yearYear reported
National Air and Space Museum Washington, D.C.7,000,0002017[4][5]
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City6,692,9092017[2]
National Museum of Natural History Washington, D.C.6,000,0002017[5][4]
National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C.5,232,2772017 [2][4]
American Museum of Natural History New York City5,000,0002017[4]
National Museum of American History Washington, D.C.3,800,0002017[5][4]
Museum of Modern Art New York City2,752,7192017[2]
National Museum of African American History and Culture Washington, D.C.2,400,0002017[5][4]
National Museum of Anthropology Mexico City2,336,1152017[6]
Houston Museum of Natural Science Houston2,295,0002017[4]
National Museum of History Mexico City2,135,4652017[6]
California Science Center Los Angeles2,106,0002017[4]
Denver Museum of Nature and Science Denver1,800,0002017[4]
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Washington, D.C.1,700,0002017[4]
Field Museum of Natural History Chicago1,800,0002017[4]
Art Institute of Chicago Chicago1,619,3162017[2]
Udvar-Hazy Center[ii] Chantilly, VA1,600,0002017[5][4]
Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Cape Canaveral1,504,2012016[7]
Getty Center Los Angeles1,451,8012017[2]
Royal Ontario Museum Toronto1,389,6962017[2]
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Montreal1,323,8372017[2]

Asia
Asia - Top twenty museums by number of visitors per year
NameCityVisitors annuallyYear reported
National Museum of China Beijing8,062,6252017[2][4]
Shanghai Science and Technology Museum Shanghai6,421,0002017[4]
National Palace Museum[iii] Taipei4,436,1182017[2][4]
China Science and Technology Museum Beijing3,983,0002017[4]
Zhejiang Provincial Museum Hangzhou3,670,0002017[4]
National Museum of Korea Seoul3,476,6062017[2]
Gansu Provincial Museum Lanzhou3,300,0002017[4]
Nanjing Museum Nanjing3,300,0002017[4]
National Museum of Natural Science Taichung3,115,0002017[4]
Chengdu Museum Chengdu3,000,0002017[4]
National Art Center Tokyo2,987,0002017[2][4]
National Science Education Center Taipei2,869,0002017[4]
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Tokyo2,723,9552017[2]
Shaanxi History Museum Xi'an2,700,0002017[4]
National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo2,600,0002017[4]
Tokyo National Museum Tokyo2,180,0002017[2][4]
Shanghai Museum Shanghai2,109,2002017[4][8]
Three Gorges Museum Chongqing2,112,0002017[2][4]
National Science and Technology Museum Kaohsiung1,981,0002017[4]
National Folk Museum of Korea Seoul1,813,6262017[2]

Australia and New Zealand
Australia and New Zealand
NameCountry flag, cityVisitors per yearYear reported
National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne2,810,6962017[2]
Queensland Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane1,425,8262017[2]
Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney1,349,0002017[2]
Australian Centre for the Moving Image Melbourne1,316,0002016[9]
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia Sydney1,206,0002017[2]
National Gallery of Australia Canberra782,8282017[2]

South America
South America
NameCountry flag, cityVisitors per yearYear reported
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Rio de Janeiro1,337,5662017[2]
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Brasília1,229,4322017[2]
Museu Nacional da Republica Brasilia935,1682017[2]
Instituto Tomie Otake São Paulo895,7692017[2]

Notes

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

^ii The Udvar-Hazy Center belongs to the National Air and Space Museum, but they list attendance separately.

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

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

See also

References
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  2. The Art Newspaper Review, April 2018
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  4. 2017 AECOM-TEA Museum Index Report, published May 2018
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