List of most visited art museums in the world

This article lists the most visited art museums in the world (i.e. all museums with any form of art on display, some museums such as the Natural History Museum are excluded). This list of 100 is based on "2010 worldwide museum attendance numbers" compiled by The Art Newspaper published in April 2011.[1] The country with the highest number of visitors in the top 100 is the United Kingdom. The country with the most museums appearing in the top 100 is the United States. Several major art museums, such as the Palace Museum in Beijing, which annually draws 7 million visitors,[2][3] the Musée d'Histoire de France in the Palace of Versailles with 5,659,606 annual visitors in 2009,[4] the Vatican Museums of Rome, with 4,310,083 visitors in 2007,[5] and the National Palace Museum in Taipei, with 3,441,238 visitors in 2010,[6] were not included.

Rank Museum City Country Visitor Count
1
 Musée du Louvre Paris  France 8,500,000
2
 British Museum London  United Kingdom 5,842,138
3
 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York  United States 5,216,988
4
 Tate Modern London  United Kingdom 5,061,172
5
 National Gallery London  United Kingdom 4,954,914
6
 National Gallery of Art Washington  United States 4,775,114
7
 Museum of Modern Art New York  United States 3,131,238
8
 Centre Pompidou Paris  France 3,130,000
9
 National Museum of Korea Seoul  South Korea 3,067,909
10
 Musée d’Orsay Paris  France 2,985,510
11
 Museo del Prado Madrid  Spain 2,732,000
12
 Victoria and Albert Museum London  United Kingdom 2,629,065
13
 State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg  Russia 2,490,387
14
 Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Rio de Janeiro  Brazil 2,317,772
15
 Museo Reina Sofía Madrid  Spain 2,313,532
16
 De Young Museum San Francisco  United States 2,043,854
17
 The National Art Center, Tokyo Tokyo  Japan 2,027,980
18
 National Portrait Gallery London United Kingdom 1,819,442
19
 Tate Britain London  United Kingdom 1,665,291
20
 Galleria degli Uffizi Florence  Italy 1,651,210
21
 Art Institute of Chicago Chicago  United States 1,612,780
22
 Gyeongju National Museum Gyeongju  South Korea 1,491,582
23
 Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam  Netherlands 1,429,854
24
 Museu Picasso Barcelona  Spain 1,369,187
25
 Acropolis Museum Athens  Greece 1,355,720
26
 Musée du Quai Branly Paris  France 1,326,153
27
 Royal Palace of Milan Milan  Italy 1,300,000
28
 State Tretyakov Gallery Moscow  Russia 1,297,424
29
 Residenzschloss Dresden  Germany 1,286,733
30
 Saatchi Gallery London  United Kingdom 1,271,301
31
 Tokyo National Museum Tokyo  Japan 1,271,174
32
 Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Brasília  Brazil 1,267,146
33
 Getty Center Los Angeles  United States 1,205,685
34
 Galleria dell’Accademia Florence  Italy 1,170,933
35
 Melbourne Museum Melbourne  Australia 1,164,139
36
 National Portrait Gallery Washington  United States 1,144,494
37
 Neues Museum Berlin  Germany 1,142,000
38
 Museum of Fine Arts Houston  United States 1,125,000
39
 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York  United States 1,105,352
40
 Australian Centre for the Moving Image Melbourne  Australia 1,103,536
41
 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington  United States 1,100,000
42
 Queensland GoMA Brisbane  Australia 1,089,691
43
 Kelvingrove Art Gallery Glasgow  United Kingdom 1,070,521
44
 Ashmolean Museum Oxford  United Kingdom 1,041,310
45
 Pergamonmuseum Berlin  Germany 1,035,000
46
 Royal Academy of Arts London  United Kingdom 1,007,306
47
 Kremlin Museums Moscow  Russia 1,006,738
48
 Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney  Australia 1,004,404
49
 National Gallery of Scotland Edinburgh  United Kingdom 969,449
50
 Museu Colecção Berardo Lisbon  Portugal 964,540
51
 Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Bilbao  Spain 956,417
52
 Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo Rome  Italy 915,421
53
 LACMA Los Angeles  United States 914,356
54
 Museum of Fine Arts Boston  United States 911,216
55
 Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Amsterdam  Netherlands 900,000
56
 Art Gallery of Ontario Toronto  Canada 878,478
57
 NGV International Melbourne  Australia 820,632
58
 Musea Bruges Bruges  Belgium 860,445
59
 Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Paris  France 849,983
60
 Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya Barcelona  Spain 828,713
61
 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Madrid  Spain 821,099
62
 National Gallery of Australia Canberra  Australia 820,720
63
 Belvedere Vienna  Austria 812,522
64
 Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Washington  United States 795,627
65
 Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil São Paulo  Brazil 756,752
66
 Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane  Australia 748,142
67
 National Gallery of Ireland Dublin  Ireland 736,855
68
 Serpentine Gallery London  United Kingdom 736,072
69
 Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery Birmingham  United Kingdom 730,971
70
 Israel Museum Jerusalem  Israel 718,000
71
 Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts Brussels  Belgium 715,313
72
 Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia Melbourne  Australia 717,676
73
 SFMoMA San Francisco  United States 700,000
74
 MASP Sao Paulo  Brazil 661,038
75
 Albertina Vienna  Austria 655,598
76
 Scuderie del Quirinale Rome  Italy 655,000
77
 Museo delle Porcellane Florence  Italy 652,164
78
 Hermitage Amsterdam Amsterdam  Netherlands 650,000
78
 Centre Pompidou-Metz Metz  France 650,000
80
 Istanbul Modern Istanbul  Turkey 634,900
81
 Hirshhorn Museum Washington  United States 620,774
82
 Tate Liverpool Liverpool  United Kingdom 615,596
83
 Tel Aviv Museum of Art Tel Aviv  Israel 610,000
84
 Reggia di Caserta Caserta  Italy 601,614
85
 Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels  Belgium 589,345
86
 Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney  Australia 578,913
87
 Museo delle Antichità Egizie Turin  Italy 576,200
88
 La Triennale di Milano Milan  Italy 559,615
89
 Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna  Austria 559,150
90
 Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Humlebæk  Denmark 525,617
91
 Gongju National Museum Gongju  South Korea 551,922
92
 Seattle Art Museum Seattle  United States 551,683
93
 National Museum of Western Art Tokyo  Japan 544,731
94
 Musée National des Beaux-arts Montreal  Canada 538,180
95
 Kyoto National Museum Kyoto  Japan 532,427
96
 Museum of Fine Arts Budapest  Hungary 525,556
97
 Galleria Borghese Rome  Italy 518,369
98
 High Museum of Art Atlanta  United States 509,000
99
 Pinacoteca do Estado Sao Paulo  Brazil 500,000
100
 Galerie Alte Meister Dresden  Germany 490,359

See also

References

  1. ^ "Exhibition and museum attendance figures 2010 (page 2)" (PDF). London: The Art Newspaper. April 2011. http://www.theartnewspaper.com/attfig/attfig10.pdf. Retrieved April 2011. 
  2. ^ Asia's most-visited tourist site
  3. ^ World Heritage Sites with one million visitors or more
  4. ^PDF"Muséostat 2009". http://www.developpementculturel.culture.gouv.fr/MUSEOSTAT_2009.pdf. 
  5. ^ Dossier Musei 2008 - Touring Club Italiano
  6. ^ "National Palace Museum Annual Report 2010" (PDF). National Palace Museum. April 2011. p. 59. http://www.npm.gov.tw/UserFiles/File/zh-tw/335000000E-I52-149.pdf. Retrieved 2011-05-30.