See also: List of most-visited museums and List of most-visited museums by region.
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.[1]
A primary source for 2023 figures is the Art Newspaper, https://www.theartnewspaper.com, 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 Newspapers 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.[2]
| Rank in 2023 | Museum | Country and city | data-sort-type="number" | Visitors annually ! | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | 8,860,000 (2023)[3] | ||||
| (2) | Vatican Museums | Vatican City (Rome) | 6,764,858 (2023)[4] | ||
| (3) | British Museum |  London | 5,820,860 (2023) (up 42 percent from 2022)[5] [6] | ||
| (4) | 5,364,000 (2023)[7] | ||||
| (5) | Uffizi Gallery |  Florence | 5,138,588 (2023) (up 26,37 percent from 2022)[8] | ||
| (6) | Tate Modern | London | 4,742,038 (2023)[9] | ||
| (7) | National Museum of Korea | Seoul | 4,180,285 (2023)[10] | ||
| (8) | Musée d'Orsay |  Paris | 3,871,498 (2023) [11] | ||
| (9) | National Gallery of Art |  Washington, D.C. | 3,829,812 (2023)[12] | ||
| (10) |  Madrid | 3,337,550 (2023) | |||
| (11) | State Hermitage Museum | Saint Petersburg | 3,273,753 (2023)[13] | ||
| (12) | Victoria and Albert Museum | London | 3,110,000 (2023) (up 28 percent from 2022)[14] | ||
| (13) | London | 3,096,508 (2023) (up 14 percent from 2022)[15] | |||
| (14) | 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) [16] [17] | ||
| (20) | Wawel Castle |  Kraków | 2,561,000 (2023) | ||
| (21) |  Tokyo | 2,250,758 (2023) | |||
| (22) | 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art | Kanazawa | 2,230,939 (2023) | ||
| (23) | 2,186,841 (2023) (up 56 percent from 2022)[18] | ||||
| (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) | 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), figure does not include visitors to the | ||
| (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) | 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)[19] | ||
| (43) | 1,340,032 (2023) | ||||
| (44) | 1,339,660 (2023) | ||||
| (45) | 1,324,221 (2023)[20] | ||||
| (46) | 1,323,034 (2023) | ||||
| (47) | Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago | 1,322,195 (2023)[21] | ||
| (48) | 1,301,619 (2023) | ||||
| (49) | Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (MUCEM) | 1,300,000 (2023) [22] | |||
| (50) | 1,283,882 (2023) | ||||
| (51) | 1,260,000 (2023) | ||||
| (52) | Hong Kong Museum of Art | Hong Kong | 1,257,411 (2023) | ||
| (53) | Los Angeles | 1,251,134 (2023) | |||
| (54) | 1,247,076 (2023) | ||||
| (55) | 1,246,000 (2023) | ||||
| (56) | Paris | 1,239,539 (2023)[23] | |||
| (57) | French: [[Petit Palais]]|italic=no | Paris | 1,187,637 (2023)[24] | ||
| (58) | 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) | 1,090,475 (2023) | ||||
| (65) | Turin | 1,061,157 (2023) | |||
| (66) | Museu Picasso | Barcelona | 1,047,094 (2023) | ||
| (67) | Moscow | 1,024,610 (2023) | |||
| (68) | Madrid | 1,017,684 (2023) | |||
| (69) | 1,017,636 (2023) | ||||
| (70) | 999,645 (2023) | ||||
| (71) | 999,514 (2023) | ||||
| (72) | 952,290 (2023) | ||||
| (73) | 943,974 (2023) | ||||
| (74) | Musee d'Art Moderne de Paris | Paris | 927,023 (2023) | ||
| (75) | 906,350 (2023) | ||||
| (76) | Los Angeles | 902,237 (2023) | |||
| (77) | 900,277 (2023) | ||||
| (78) | Royal Palace of Milan | Milan | 896,681 (2023) | ||
| (79) | Los Angeles | 895,949 (2023) | |||
| (80) | National Museum of Modern Art (MOMAT) | Tokyo | 883,596 (2023) | ||
| (81) | 883,568 (2023) | ||||
| (82) | New York City | 861,374 (2023) | |||
| (83) | 859,386 (2023) | ||||
| (84) | Art Gallery of Ontario | Toronto | 846,835 (2023) | ||
| (85) | London | 841,575 (2023) | |||
| (86) | 821,491 (2023) | ||||
| (87) | Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art | Bentonville | 784,971 (2023) | ||
| (88) | Museo Picasso Málaga | Málaga | 779,279 (2023) | ||
| (89) | New York City | 768,000 (2023) | |||
| (90) | 760,667 (2023) | ||||
| (91) | 750,000 (2023) | ||||
| (92) | The Ian Potter Museum of Art | 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) | 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) |