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In 2023, total attendance in the most-visited art museums returned largely to the level of 2019, for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

A primary source for 2023 figures is the Art Newspaper, , whose most recent annual survey was published in March 2024. Other major sources included the newsroom of the Smithsonian Institution, the French Ministry of Culture, and the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions in the United Kingdom.

Visitor numbers for museums in mainland China are traditionally released by the government in May each year, several months after the publication of The Art Newspaper's list. Museums in China included on the 2021 list are noted at the bottom of this list with the prior year's statistics and will be incorporated into the main listings when 2022 statistics are released.

Visitors in 2023

Rank in 2023	Museum	Country and city	Visitors annually	Image
(1)	Louvre	Paris	8,860,000 (2023)
(2)	Vatican Museums	Vatican City, Rome	6,765,000 (2023)
(3)	National Museum of China	Beijing	6,757,000 (2023)
(3)	British Museum	London	5,820,860 (2023) (up 42 percent from 2022)
(4)	Metropolitan Museum of Art	New York City	5,364,000 (2023)
(5)	Uffizi Gallery	Florence	5,138,588 (2023) (up 26,37 percent from 2022)
(6)	Tate Modern	London	4,742,038 (2023)
(13)	National Gallery	London	4,287,434 (2023)
(7)	National Museum of Korea	Seoul	4,180,285 (2023)
(8)	Musée d'Orsay	Paris	3,871,498 (2023)
(9)	National Gallery of Art	Washington, D.C.	3,829,812 (2023)
(10)	Museo del Prado	Madrid	3,337,550 (2023)
(11)	State Hermitage Museum	Saint Petersburg	3,273,753 (2023)
(12)	Victoria and Albert Museum	London	3,110,000 (2023) (up 28 percent from 2022)
(14)	State Russian Museum	Saint Petersburg	2,900,000 (2023)
(15)	Museum of Modern Art	New York City	2,839,509 (2023)
(16)	M+	Hong Kong	2,797,616 (2023)
(17)	Somerset House	London	2,727,677 (2023) (up 28 percent from 2022)
(18)	Rijksmuseum	Amsterdam	2,702,824 (2023)
(19)	Musée National d'Art Moderne (Centre Pompidou)	Paris	2,621,696 (2023)
(20)	Wawel Castle	Kraków	2,561,000 (2023)
(21)	The National Art Center, Tokyo	Tokyo	2,250,758 (2023)
(22)	21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art	Kanazawa	2,230,939 (2023)
(23)	National Museum of Scotland	Edinburgh	2,186,841 (2023) (up 56 percent from 2022)
(24)	Tretyakov Gallery	Moscow	2,100,000 (2023)
(25)	Royal Castle, Warsaw	Warsaw	2,023,642 (2023)
(26)	National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul branch)	Seoul	2,021,771 (2023)
(27)	Galleria dell'Accademia	Florence	2,013,974 (2023)
(28)	Art Gallery of New South Wales	Sydney	1,945,810 (2023)
(29)	Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum	Tokyo	1,924,456 (2023)
(30)	Acropolis Museum	Athens	1,904,456 (2023)
(31)	Scottish National Gallery	Edinburgh	1,836,057 (2023)
(32)	NGV International (National Gallery of Victoria)	Melbourne	1,800,124 (2023),
(33)	National Gallery Singapore	Singapore	1,723,916 (2023)
(34)	Humboldt Forum	Berlin	1,700,000 (2023)
(35)	Kunsthistorisches Museum	Vienna	1,688,509 (2023)
(36)	Van Gogh Museum	Amsterdam	1,686,766 (2023)
(37)	National Museum in Kraków	Kraków	1,650,792 (2023)
(38)	National Museum of African-American History and Culture (Smithsonian Institution)	Washington, D.C.	1,600,000 (2023)
(39)	Louis Vuitton Foundation	Paris	1,550,000 (2023)
(40)	Museo Reina Sofía	Madrid	1,514,854 (2023)
(41)	Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil	Belo Horizonte	1,474,825 (2023)
(42)	Musée du quai Branly	Paris	1,410,000 (2023)
(43)	Gyeongju National Museum	Gyeongju	1,340,032 (2023)
(44)	Upper Belvedere	Vienna	1,339,660 (2023)
(45)	Guggenheim Museum Bilbao	Bilbao	1,324,221 (2023)
(46)	Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil	Rio de Janeiro	1,323,034 (2023)
(47)	Art Institute of Chicago	Chicago	1,322,195 (2023)
(48)	Doge's Palace	Venice	1,301,619 (2023)
(49)	Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (MUCEM)	Marseille	1,300,000 (2023)
(50)	Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum	Glasgow	1,283,882 (2023)
(51)	Hong Kong Palace Museum	Hong Kong	1,260,000 (2023)
(52)	Hong Kong Museum of Art	Hong Kong	1,257,411 (2023)
(53)	Getty Center	Los Angeles	1,251,134 (2023)
(54)	Louvre Abu Dhabi	Abu Dhabi	1,247,076 (2023)
(55)	National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design	Oslo	1,246,000 (2023)
(56)	Musée de l'Orangerie	Paris	1,239,539 (2023)
(57)	Petit Palais	Paris	1,187,637 (2023)
(58)	Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa	Wellington	1,181,637 (2023)
(59)	Donald W. Reynolds Center (contains two museums, the National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum)	Washington D.C.	1,166,129 (2023)
(60)	National Portrait Gallery	London	1,164,018 (2023)
(61)	Serralves	Porto	1,147,761 (2023)
(62)	Tate Britain	London	1,091,218 (2023)
(63)	Royal Ontario Museum	Toronto	1,091,120 (2023)
(64)	Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens	San Marino, California	1,090,475 (2023)
(65)	Museo Egizio	Turin	1,061,157 (2023)
(66)	Museu Picasso	Barcelona	1,047,094 (2023)
(67)	Moscow Kremlin Museums	Moscow	1,024,610 (2023)
(68)	Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum	Madrid	1,017,684 (2023)
(69)	National Gallery of Ireland	Dublin	1,017,636 (2023)
(70)	De Young Museum	San Francisco	999,645 (2023)
(71)	Museum of Fine Arts, Houston	Houston	999,514 (2023)
(72)	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston	Boston	952,290 (2023)
(73)	Albertina	Vienna	943,974 (2023)
(74)	Musee d'Art Moderne de Paris	Paris	927,023 (2023)
(75)	Tel Aviv Museum of Art	Tel Aviv	906,350 (2023)
(76)	Los Angeles County Museum of Art	Los Angeles	902,237 (2023)
(77)	Ashmolean Museum	Oxford	900,277 (2023)
(78)	Royal Palace of Milan	Milan	896,681 (2023)
(79)	The Broad	Los Angeles	895,949 (2023)
(80)	National Museum of Modern Art (MOMAT)	Tokyo	883,596 (2023)
(81)	Palazzo Pitti	Florence	883,568 (2023)
(82)	Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum	New York City	861,374 (2023)
(83)	Museum of Contemporary Art Australia	Sydney	859,386 (2023)
(84)	Art Gallery of Ontario	Toronto	846,835 (2023)
(85)	Imperial War Museum	London	841,575 (2023)
(86)	Museum of Fine Arts	Budapest	821,491 (2023)
(87)	Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art	Bentonville	784,971 (2023)
(88)	Museo Picasso Málaga	Málaga	779,279 (2023)
(89)	Whitney Museum	New York City	768,000 (2023)
(90)	Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park	Grand Rapids Charter Township, Michigan	760,667 (2023)
(91)	Fondation Monet in Giverny	Giverny	750,000 (2023)
(92)	Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia (National Gallery of Victoria)	Melbourne	732,114 (2023)
(93)	Dalí Theatre-Museum	Figueres	726,199 (2023)
(94)	National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Gwacheon branch)	Gwacheon	726,065 (2023)
(95)	Hong Kong Heritage Museum	Hong Kong	724,011 (2023)
(96)	Faberge Museum	St Petersburg	709,982 (2023)
(97)	Royal Academy of Arts	London	709,961 (2023)
(98)	Louisiana Museum of Modern Art	Humlebæk	702,426 (2023)
(99)	National Museum of the American Indian	Washington D.C.	701,021 (2023)
(100)	Cleveland Museum of Art	Cleveland	685,336 (2023)

See also

• List of most-visited museums
• List of most visited museums in the United Kingdom
• List of most-visited museums in the United States
• List of most-visited museums in France
• List of most visited palaces and monuments
• List of most-visited museums by region
• List of art museums
• List of largest art museums
• List of national galleries
• List of single-artist museums

Notes

References

1. "The Art Newspaper,", March 2023
2. Coville, Alex (27 March 2023). "Will China's museums still come out on top despite harsh Covid rules?". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
3. Radio France, (January 11, 2024
4. The"Art Newspaper", March 21,2024
5. TEA-AECOM Museum Index, August 2024
6. ^ Cheshire, Lee; da Silva, José (27 March 2023). "The 100 most popular art museums in the world—who has recovered and who is still struggling?". The Art Newspaper. Archived from the original on 28 March 2023. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
7. ^ Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA), March 18, 2024
8. "New York Times", March 12, 2024, ""Audience Snapshot; Four Years After Shutdown, a Mixed Recovery"
9. "I numeri dei musei italiani". Uffizi (in Italian). 3 July 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
10. "Press releases | Press and media | National Gallery, London". www.nationalgallery.org.uk. Retrieved 11 September 2024.
11. ^ CLIC Museum Index, published January 2024
12. "En 2023, le Louvre a retrouvé une fréquentation pré-Covid avec près de 9 millions de visiteurs". Franceinfo Culture (in French). 4 January 2024.
13. "National Gallery of Art Welcomed 3.8 Million Visitors in 2023; Attendance 18% Higher than 2022". NGA. National Gallery of Art. 29 January 2024. Archived from the original on 6 February 2024. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
14. ^ "The 100 most popular art museums in the world—blockbusters, bots and bounce-backs". The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. 26 March 2024. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
15. ALVA Visitor Figures (March 18, 2024)
16. "Le Parisien", 6 January, 2023
17. Jordane de Faÿ (4 January 2023). "3 009 570 - Le nombre de visiteurs au Centre Pompidou en 2022". Le Quotiden de L'Art (in French).
18. ALVA Visitor Figures (March 18, 2024)
19. beaux-Arts.com,February 2024
20. ^ CLIC Annual Museum Survey, January 2024
21. "New York Times,", March 21, 2024
22. CLIC Museum Index, January 30, 2024
23. CLC Museum Index, Feb. 2024
24. Beaux-Arts.com February 2024|

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