List of most visited museums in the United Kingdom
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Tate Modern, London
British Museum, London
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National Gallery, London
This article lists the most visited museums in the United Kingdom (including art galleries). The first twenty museums show the 2020 attendance numbers of the members of the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions unless otherwise noted.[1] The other museums show 2019 figures from the same source.
The 2020 figures reflect the dramatic effect of the COVID-19 epidemic; most museums in the UK were closed for 70 to 80 percent of the year, and international travel and tourism was drastically reduced.
Rank | Museum | Location | Country | Visitors in 2020 |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
Tate Modern | London | ![]() |
1,431,704 (down 77 percent from 2019) |
2 |
Natural History Museum | London | ![]() |
1,296,763 (down 76 percent from 2019) |
3 |
British Museum | London | ![]() |
1,275,456 (down 80 percent from 2019) |
4 |
National Gallery | London | ![]() |
1,197,143 (Down 80 percent from 2019) |
5 |
Victoria and Albert Museum | London | ![]() |
872,240 (down 78 percent from 2019) |
6 |
Science Museum | London | ![]() |
802,085 (down 75 percent from 2019) |
7 |
Tate Britain | London | ![]() |
396,000 (down 78 percent from 2019) |
8 |
National Portrait Gallery | London | ![]() |
309,402 (down 81 percent from 2019) |
9 |
Scottish National Gallery | Edinburgh | ![]() |
304,237 (Down 81 percent from 2019) |
10 |
Imperial War Museum | London | ![]() |
278,797 (down 74% from 2019) |
11 |
Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum | Glasgow | ![]() |
259,978 (down 86 recent from 2019) |
12 |
Riverside Museum | Glasgow | ![]() |
246,933 (down 82 percent from 2019) |
13 |
Ashmolean Museum | Oxford | ![]() |
239,134 (down 74 percent from 2019) |
14 |
National Railway Museum | York | ![]() |
222,435 (down 69 percent from 2019) |
15 |
Museum of Liverpool | Liverpool | ![]() |
214,995 (down 78 percent from 2019) |
16 |
Museum of London | London | ![]() |
198,788 down 72 percent from 2019) |
17 |
National Museum of the Royal Navy | Portsmouth | ![]() |
183,061 (down 79 percent from 2019) |
18 |
Oxford University Museum of Natural History | Oxford | ![]() |
167,184 (down 79 percent from 2019) |
19 |
Royal Museums Greenwich | London | ![]() |
111,263 (down 96 percent from 2019) |
20 |
Merseyside Maritime Museum | Liverpool | ![]() |
177,849 (down 79 percent from 2019) |
21 |
National War Museum | Edinburgh | ![]() |
764,079 (2019) |
23 |
Beamish Museum | County Durham | ![]() |
747,651[2] (2017) |
25 |
World Museum, Liverpool | Liverpool | ![]() |
672,120(2019) |
26 |
Gallery of Modern Art | Glasgow | ![]() |
670,485 (2019) |
27 |
Museum of Science and Industry | Manchester | ![]() |
664,000 (2019) |
28 |
Tate Liverpool | Liverpool | ![]() |
628,024(2019) |
29 |
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery | Birmingham | ![]() |
602,634 (2019) |
30 |
Churchill War Rooms | London | ![]() |
534,723 (2019) |
31 |
Ulster Museum | Belfast | ![]() |
533,153 (2019) |
32 |
National Museum Cardiff | Cardiff | ![]() |
509,981[3](2018) |
33 |
St Fagans National Museum of History | Cardiff | ![]() |
504,402[4](2017) |
34 |
National Science and Media Museum | Bradford | ![]() |
493,000 (2019) |
35 |
Pitt Rivers Museum | Oxford | ![]() |
480,663 (2019) |
36 |
V&A Museum of Childhood | London | ![]() |
406,101(2019) |
37 |
International Slavery Museum | Liverpool | ![]() |
398,221 (2019) |
38 |
The Fitzwilliam Museum | Cambridge | ![]() |
397,169 (2019) |
39 |
London Transport Museum | London | ![]() |
382,405(2019) |
40 |
Black Country Living Museum | Dudley | ![]() |
332,778 (2019) |
See also[]
- Museum of the Year
- Tourism in the United Kingdom
- List of museums in the United Kingdom
- List of most visited art museums
- .List of most-visited museums
References[]
- ^ "Visits made in 2020 to Visitor Attractions in Membership with ALVA". Association of Leading Visitor Attractions. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
- ^ "Record visitor numbers for Beamish". Retrieved 11 December 2017.
- ^ "Amgueddfa Cymru — National Museum Wales Visitor Figures". Retrieved 3 January 2018.
- ^ "Amgueddfa Cymru — National Museum Wales Visitor Figures". Retrieved 11 December 2017.
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