List of most-visited museums by region

This is a list of the top twenty most visited museums in each region in 2020, based upon the annual reports of museum attendance from the Art Newspaper Review and the Museum Index of the Themed Entertainment Association. If 2020 figures are not available, earlier figures are shown, with the year indicated. The 2020 figures illustrate the enormous drop in museum attendance due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Museum attendance globally fell by more than 70 percent in 2020.

Europe[]

Europe - Top twenty Museums by number of visitors per year
Name	Country flag, city	Visitors per year	Year reported
Louvre	Paris	2,700,000	2020[1]
Vatican Museums	Vatican City	1,300,000	2020[1]
British Museum	London	1,275,466	2020[1]
Tate Modern	London	1,432,941	2020[1]
National Gallery	London	1,197,143	2020[1]
Natural History Museum	London	1,197,000	2020[2]
State Hermitage Museum	Saint Petersburg	968,604	2020[1]
Reina Sofía	Madrid	1,248,480	2020[1]
Victoria and Albert Museum	London	872,240	2020[1]
Centre Pompidou	Paris	912,803	2020[1]
London Science Museum	London	862,085	2020[1]
Somerset House	London	724,310	2020[2]
Musée d'Orsay	Paris	867,724	2020[1]
Museo del Prado	Madrid	852,161	2020[1]
Moscow Kremlin Museums	Moscow	424,922	2020[1]
Van Gogh Museum	Amsterdam	516,990	2020[1]
Galleria degli Uffizi	Florence	659,000	2020[1]
Tretyakov Gallery	Moscow	894,374	2020[1]
Rijksmuseum	Amsterdam	675,000	2020[1]

North America[]

North America: Top twenty museums by number of visitors per year
Name	Country flag, city	Visitors per year	Year reported
National Air and Space Museum	Washington, D.C.	267,000	2020[3]
Metropolitan Museum of Art	New York City	1,125,000	2020[4]
National Museum of Natural History	Washington, D.C.	573,000	2020[5]
National Gallery of Art	Washington, D.C.	730,000	2020[6]
National Museum of American History	Washington, D.C.	311,000	2020[7]
Museum of Modern Art	New York City	706,000	2020[8]
National Museum of African American History and Culture	Washington, D.C.	368,000	2020[9]
National Museum of Anthropology	Mexico City	438,937	2020[10]
National Museum of History	Mexico City	617,365	2020[11]
California Science Center	Los Angeles	240,000	2020[12]
Denver Museum of Nature and Science	Denver	991,000	2020[13]
Field Museum of Natural History	Chicago	316,000	2020[14]
Art Institute of Chicago	Chicago	375,000	2020[15]
Udvar-Hazy Center[ii]	Chantilly, VA	311,548	2020[16]
Getty Center	Los Angeles	267,035	2020[1]

Asia[]

Asia - Top twenty museums by number of visitors per year
Name	City	Visitors annually	Year reported
National Museum of China	Beijing	1,600,000	2020[17]
Shanghai Science and Technology Museum	Shanghai	1,351,000	2020[18]
National Palace Museum[iii]	Taipei	643,000	2020[19]
China Science and Technology Museum	Beijing	690,000	2020[20]
Zhejiang Provincial Museum	Hangzhou	1,108,000	2020[21]
National Museum of Korea	Seoul	774,000	2020[22]
Nanjing Museum	Nanjing	1,515,000	2020[23]
National Museum of Natural Science	Taichung	2,263,000	2020[24]
The National Art Center, Tokyo	Tokyo	413,316	2020[1]
National Taiwan Science Education Center	Taipei	1,082,000	2020[25]
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum	Tokyo	510,117	2020[1]
Shaanxi History Museum	Xi'an	1,000,000	2020[26]
National Museum of Nature and Science	Tokyo	580,000	2020[27]
Tokyo National Museum	Tokyo	725,000	2020[28]
Shanghai Museum	Shanghai	604,090	2020[29]
Three Gorges Museum	Chongqing	2,112,000	2017[30][31]
National Science and Technology Museum	Kaohsiung	1,981,000	2017[31]
National Folk Museum of Korea	Seoul	1,813,626	2017[30]

Australia and New Zealand[]

Australia and New Zealand
Name	Country flag, city	Visitors per year	Year reported
Queensland Gallery of Modern Art	Brisbane	271,030	2020[1]
National Gallery of Australia	Canberra	302,592	2020[1]
Art Gallery of New South Wales	Sydney	548,190	2020[1]
National Gallery of Victoria	Melbourne	636,954	2020[1]
Australian Centre for the Moving Image	Melbourne	1,316,000	2016[32]
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia	Sydney	1,206,000	2017[30]

South America[]

South America
Name	Country flag, city	Visitors per year	Year reported
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil	Rio de Janeiro	790,357	2020[33]
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil	Brasília	1,229,432	2017[30]
Museu Nacional da Republica	Brasilia	935,168	2017[30]
Instituto Tomie Otake	São Paulo	895,769	2017[30]

See also[]

• List of most-visited museums
• List of most-visited art museums
• List of most visited palaces and monuments
• List of most-visited museums in the United States
• List of most visited museums in the United Kingdom

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