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. 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, the Musée d'Histoire de France in the Palace of Versailles with 5,659,606 annual visitors in 2009, the Vatican Museums of Rome, with 5,078,004 visitors in 2011,and the National Palace Museum in Taipei, with 3,441,238 visitors in 2010,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 des beaux-arts de Montréal	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
101	Moderna Museet	Stockholm	Sweden	486.523