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 | |||||||
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Name | Country flag, city | Visitors per year | Year reported | ||||
Louvre | ![]() |
2,700,000 | 2020[1] | ||||
Vatican Museums | ![]() |
1,300,000 | 2020[1] | ||||
British Museum | ![]() |
1,275,466 | 2020[1] | ||||
Tate Modern | ![]() |
1,432,941 | 2020[1] | ||||
National Gallery | ![]() |
1,197,143 | 2020[1] | ||||
Natural History Museum | ![]() |
1,197,000 | 2020[2] | ||||
State Hermitage Museum | ![]() |
968,604 | 2020[1] | ||||
Reina Sofía | ![]() |
1,248,480 | 2020[1] | ||||
Victoria and Albert Museum | ![]() |
872,240 | 2020[1] | ||||
Centre Pompidou | ![]() |
912,803 | 2020[1] | ||||
London Science Museum | ![]() |
862,085 | 2020[1] | ||||
Somerset House | ![]() |
724,310 | 2020[2] | ||||
Musée d'Orsay | ![]() |
867,724 | 2020[1] | ||||
Museo del Prado | ![]() |
852,161 | 2020[1] | ||||
Moscow Kremlin Museums | ![]() |
424,922 | 2020[1] | ||||
Van Gogh Museum | ![]() |
516,990 | 2020[1] | ||||
Galleria degli Uffizi | ![]() |
659,000 | 2020[1] | ||||
Tretyakov Gallery | ![]() |
894,374 | 2020[1] | ||||
Rijksmuseum | ![]() |
675,000 | 2020[1] |
North America[]
Asia[]
Australia and New Zealand[]
Australia and New Zealand | |||||||
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Name | Country flag, city | Visitors per year | Year reported | ||||
Queensland Gallery of Modern Art | ![]() |
271,030 | 2020[1] | ||||
National Gallery of Australia | ![]() |
302,592 | 2020[1] | ||||
Art Gallery of New South Wales | ![]() |
548,190 | 2020[1] | ||||
National Gallery of Victoria | ![]() |
636,954 | 2020[1] | ||||
Australian Centre for the Moving Image | ![]() |
1,316,000 | 2016[32] | ||||
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia | ![]() |
1,206,000 | 2017[30] |
South America[]
South America | |||||||||
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Name | Country flag, city | Visitors per year | Year reported | ||||||
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil | ![]() |
790,357 | 2020[33] | ||||||
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil | ![]() |
1,229,432 | 2017[30] | ||||||
Museu Nacional da Republica | ![]() |
935,168 | 2017[30] | ||||||
Instituto Tomie Otake | ![]() |
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
References[]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Sharpe, Emily; da Silva, José (29 March 2021). "Visitor Figures 2020: top 100 art museums revealed as attendance drops by 77% worldwide". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
- ^ a b "2020 Visitor Figures". Association of Leading Visitor Attractions. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
- ^ TEA-AECOM Museum Index 2020, published September 2021
- ^ TEA-AECOM Museum Index 2020 (retrieved September 2021)
- ^ TEA-AECOM Museum Index 2020 (retrieved September 2021)
- ^ TEA-AECOM Museum Index 2020 (retrieved September 2021)
- ^ TEA AECOM Museum Index Museum Index 2020, published September 2021
- ^ TEA-AECOM Museum Index 2020, published September 2021
- ^ TEA AECOM Museum Index Museum Index 2020, published September 2021
- ^ Estadística de Visitantes, Mexican Ministry of Culture (INAH), accessed September 2021
- ^ Estadística de Visitantes, Mexican Ministry of Culture (INAH), accessed September 2021
- ^ TEA-AECOM Museum Index for 2020, published September 2021
- ^ TEA-AECOM Museum Index for 2020, published September 2021
- ^ TEA-AECOM Museum Index for 2020, published September 2021
- ^ TEA-AECOM Museum Index for 2020, published September 2021
- ^ Smithsonian Institution New Desk, September 27,2021 for 2020, published September 2021
- ^ AECOM-TEA Museum Index 20, published September 2021
- ^ AECOM-TEA Museum Index 20, published September 2021
- ^ AECOM-TEA Museum Index 2020, published September 2021
- ^ AECOM-TEA Museum Index 2020, published September 2021
- ^ AECOM-TEA Museum Index 2020
- ^ AECOM-TEA Museum Index 2020
- ^ AECOM-TEA Museum Index 2020
- ^ AECOM-TEA Museum Index 2020
- ^ AECOM-TEA Museum Index 2020
- ^ AECOM-TEA Museum Index 2020
- ^ AECOM-TEA Museum Index 2020
- ^ AECOM-TEA Museum Index 2020, retrieved September 2021
- ^ AECOM-TEA Museum Index 2020, retrieved September 2021
- ^ a b c d e f The Art Newspaper Review, April 2018
- ^ a b 2017 AECOM-TEA Museum Index Report, published May 2018
- ^ "Visitor Figures 2016" (PDF). The Art Newspaper Review. April 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
- ^ TEA-AECOM Museum Index 2020, published September 2021
Categories:
- Lists of art museums and galleries
- Lists of museums
- Tourism-related lists of superlatives
- Lists by region