List of most-visited art museums

This article lists the most-visited art museums in the world in 2020. The primary source is The Art Newspaper annual survey of the number of visitors to major art museums in 2020, published 30 March 2021. Figures for French museums in 2021 come from The Art Newspaper on January 5, 2022.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the museums listed were closed during the year for long periods of time. For example, the Louvre, the top museum on the list, was closed for 150 days in 2020, and Louvre attendance for 2020 dropped by 72 percent from 2019. Overall, attendance at the top one hundred art museums dropped by 77 percent in 2020.^[1]

Museums in the United States and Western Europe usually measure attendance for the calendar year from January through December, while many museums in East Asia and Britain measure attendance for the fiscal year, from April through March.

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No.	Museum	Country and city	Visitors annually[a]	Image
1	Louvre	Paris	2,800,000 (2021) (up from 2.7 million in 2020)
2	National Museum of China	Beijing	Attendance limited to 12,500 visitors a day in 2021. 1,600,000 (2020) (down 78% from 2019)
3	Tate Modern	London	361,000 (2020-2021) (down from 1,432,941 (2019-2020) [3]
4	Vatican Museums	Vatican City (Rome)	1,300,000 (2020) (down 81% from 2019)
5	British Museum	London	160,000 (2020-2021) (down from 1,275,466 in 2019-2020)[4]
6	Museo Reina Sofía	Madrid	1,643,108 (2021) (up from 1,248,000 in 2020)
7	State Russian Museum	Saint Petersburg	1,203,324 (2020) (down 50% from 2019)
8	National Gallery	London	200,000 (April 2020-March 2021 ) (down from 4.4 million in 2019-2020)
9	Metropolitan Museum of Art	New York	1,200,000 (July 2020 through June 2021)[5] (Up from 1,125,000 (2019-2020)
10	21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa	Kanazawa	971,256 (2020) (down 77% from 2019)
11	State Hermitage Museum	Saint Petersburg	968,604 (2020) (down 80% from 2019)
12	Musée National d'Art Moderne (Centre Pompidou)	Paris	1.5 million (2021) (up by 65 percent from 2020)
13	Tretyakov Gallery	Moscow	894,374 (2020) (down 68% from 2019)
14	Victoria and Albert Museum	London	872,240 (2020) (down 78% from 2020)
15	Musée d'Orsay	Paris	1,000,000 (2021) (up by 30 percent from 2020)
16	Museo del Prado	Madrid	1,175,296 (2021) (up 32.2 percent from 2020)
17	Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa	Wellington	837,664 (2020) (down 46% from 2019)
18	Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil	Rio de Janeiro	790,357 (2020) (down 70% from 2019)
19	National Museum of Korea	Seoul	773,621 (2020) (down 77% from 2019)
20	National Gallery Singapore	Singapore	736,132 (2020) (down 59% from 2019)
21	National Gallery of Art	Washington, D.C.	730,408 (2020) (down 82% from 2019)
22	Fabergé Museum in Saint Petersburg	Saint Petersburg	728,779 (2020) (no data for 2019)
23	Tokyo National Museum	Tokyo	724,762 (2020) (down 73% from 2019)
24	Somerset House	London	724,310 (2020) (down 75% from 2019)
25	Museum of Modern Art	New York	706,060 (2020) (down 65% from 2019)
26	Rijksmuseum	Amsterdam	675,000 (2020) (down 75% from 2019)
27	Uffizi Gallery	Florence	659,000 (2020) (down 72% from 2019)
28	Royal Castle, Warsaw	Warsaw	650,000 (2020) (down 48% from 2019)
29	National Palace Museum	Taipei	642,163 (2020) (down 74% from 2019)
30	National Gallery of Victoria	Melbourne	604,090 (2020) (down 74% from 2019)
31	Shanghai Museum	Shanghai	604,090 (2020) (down 71% from 2019)
32	National Museum of Western Art	Tokyo	603,114 (2020) (down 62% from 2019)
33	Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts	Moscow	564,431 (2020) (down 62% from 2019))
34	Art Gallery of New South Wales	Sydney	548,190 (2020) (down 57% from 2019)
35	Huntington Library	San Marino, California	547,000 (2020) (down 34% from 2019)
36	Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (MUCEM)	Marseille	527,000 (2020) (down 56% from 2019)
37	Van Gogh Museum	Amsterdam	516,990 (2020) (down 75% from 2019)
38	Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum	Tokyo	510,117 (2020) (down 82% from 2019)
39	National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art	Seoul	475,091 (2020) (down 67% from 2019)
40	Kunst­historisches Museum	Vienna	454,291 (2020) (down 75% from 2019)
41	National Museum of Scotland	Edinburgh	444,437 (2020) (down 80% from 2019)
42	ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum	Aarhus	440,869 (2020) (down 39% from 2019)
43	Musée du quai Branly	Paris	438,813 (2020) (down 61% from 2019)
44	Grand Palais	Paris	437,786 (2020) (down 59% from 2019)
45	National Portrait Gallery (Australia)	Canberra	430,932 (2020) (down 81% from 2019)
46	Moscow Kremlin Museums	Moscow	424,922 (2020) (down 86% from 2019)
47	Mireuksaji Museum	Iksan	417,527 (2020) (no data for 2019)
48	Tel Aviv Museum of Art	Tel Aviv	414,151 (2020) (down 69% from 2019)
49	The National Art Center, Tokyo	Tokyo	413,316 (2020) (down 78% from 2019)
50	Louisiana Museum of Modern Art	Humlebæk	402,950 (2020) (down 47% from 2019)
51	Museum of Fine Arts, Houston	Houston	401,935 (2020) (down 68% from 2019)
52	Tate Britain	London	391,599 (2020) (down 78% from 2019)
53	Palazzo Reale	Milan	390,716 (2020) (down 48% from 2019)
54	Royal Academy of Arts	London	385,775 (2020) (down 69% from 2019)
55	UCCA Center for Contemporary Art	Beijing	385,295 (2020) (no data from 2019)
56	Museum of Contemporary Art Australia	Sydney	367,849 (2020) (down 64% from 2019)
57	Art Institute of Chicago	Chicago	365,660 (2020) (down 78% from 2019)
58	Gyeongju National Museum	Gyeongju	365,294 (2020) (down 71% from 2019)
59	Albertina	Vienna	360,073 (2020) (down 64% from 2019)
60	Saatchi Gallery	London	354,787 (2020) (down 69% from 2019
61	Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art	Bentonville, Arkansas	353,123 (2020) (down 50% from 2019)
62	Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum	Madrid	341,008 (down 67% from 2019)
63	Art Gallery of South Australia	Adelaide	330,249 (down 22% from 2019)
64	Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane	Brisbane	330,031 (down 54% from 2019)
65	Louvre Abu Dhabi	Abu Dhabi	324,718 (down 67% from 2019)
66	Acropolis Museum	Athens	324,633 (2020) (down 82% from 2019)
67	Museo Soumaya	Mexico City	321,803 (2020) (down 71% from 2019
68 69	Donald W. Reynolds Center (contains two museums, the National Portrait Gallery and Smithsonian American Art Museum)	Washington D.C.	321,286 (2020) (down 81% from 2019)
70	Galleria dell'Accademia	Florence	319,453 (2020) (down 81% from 2019)
71	Städel Museum	Frankfurt	318,792 (2020) (down 45% from 2019)
72	Berardo Collection Museum	Lisbon	317,028 (2020) (down 65% from 2019)
73	Guggenheim Museum Bilbao	Bilbao	315,908 (2020) (down 73% from 2019)
74	National Museum in Krakow	Krakow	311,362 (2020) (down 74% from 2019)
75	[pt]	São Paulo	309,760 (2020) (down 45% from 2019)
76	National Portrait Gallery	London	309,402 (2020) (down 81% from 2019)
77	Scottish National Gallery	Edinburgh	304,560 (2020) (down 81% from 2019)
78	National Gallery of Australia	Canberra	302,592 (2020) (down 65% from 2019)
79	Montreal Museum of Fine Arts	Montreal	301,474 (2020) (down 74% from 2019)
80	Deutsches Historisches Museum	Berlin	299,002 (2020)
81	Garage Museum of Contemporary Art	Moscow	291,794 (2020) (down 69% from 2019)
82	Beyeler Foundation	Basel	291,604 (2020) (down 33% from 2019)
83	National Gallery of Denmark	Copen­hagen	285,901 (2020) (down 27% from 2019)
84	Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil	São Paulo	282,998 (2020) (down 66% from 2019)
85	National Gallery Prague	Prague	282,562 (2020) (down 49% from 2019)
86	Imperial War Museum	London	278,797 (2020) (down 74% from 2019)
87	Daegu National Museum	Daegu	277,887 (2020) (down 49% from 2019)
88	Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam	Amsterdam	277,000 (2020) (down 59% from 2019)
89	Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium	Brussels	273,571 (2020) (down 75% from 2019)
90	Österreichische Galerie Belvedere	Vienna	271,621 (2020) (down 79% from 2019)
91	World Museum	Liverpool	271,058 (2020) (down 60% from 2019)
92	Queensland Art Gallery	Brisbane	271,030 (2020) (down 58% from 2019)
93	National Museum of Art, Osaka	Osaka	270,097 (2020)
94	Getty Center	Los Angeles	267,035 (2020) (down 81% from 2019)
95	Virginia Museum of Fine Arts	Richmond, Virginia	260,350 (2020) (down 49% from 2019)
96	Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum	Glasgow	259,978 (2020) (down 86% from 2019)
97	Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park	Grand Rapids Charter Township, Michigan	259,329 (2020) (down 61% from 2019)
98	Louis Vuitton Foundation	Paris	253,409 (2020) (down 76% from 2019)
99	Christchurch Art Gallery	Christ­church	253,058 (2020) (down 28% from 2019)
100	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston	Boston	249,881 (2020) (down 80% from 2019)

See also[]

• List of most-visited museums
• List of most-visited museums in the United States
• List of most visited museums in the United Kingdom
• 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 single-artist museums

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