List of most visited museums in the United Kingdom

Tate Modern, London

Natural History Museum, London

British Museum, London

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	England	1,431,704 (down 77 percent from 2019)
2	Natural History Museum	London	England	1,296,763 (down 76 percent from 2019)
3	British Museum	London	England	1,275,456 (down 80 percent from 2019)
4	National Gallery	London	England	1,197,143 (Down 80 percent from 2019)
5	Victoria and Albert Museum	London	England	872,240 (down 78 percent from 2019)
6	Science Museum	London	England	802,085 (down 75 percent from 2019)
7	Tate Britain	London	England	396,000 (down 78 percent from 2019)
8	National Portrait Gallery	London	England	309,402 (down 81 percent from 2019)
9	Scottish National Gallery	Edinburgh	Scotland	304,237 (Down 81 percent from 2019)
10	Imperial War Museum	London	England	278,797 (down 74% from 2019)
11	Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum	Glasgow	Scotland	259,978 (down 86 recent from 2019)
12	Riverside Museum	Glasgow	Scotland	246,933 (down 82 percent from 2019)
13	Ashmolean Museum	Oxford	England	239,134 (down 74 percent from 2019)
14	National Railway Museum	York	England	222,435 (down 69 percent from 2019)
15	Museum of Liverpool	Liverpool	England	214,995 (down 78 percent from 2019)
16	Museum of London	London	England	198,788 down 72 percent from 2019)
17	National Museum of the Royal Navy	Portsmouth	England	183,061 (down 79 percent from 2019)
18	Oxford University Museum of Natural History	Oxford	England	167,184 (down 79 percent from 2019)
19	Royal Museums Greenwich	London	England	111,263 (down 96 percent from 2019)
20	Merseyside Maritime Museum	Liverpool	England	177,849 (down 79 percent from 2019)
21	National War Museum	Edinburgh	Scotland	764,079 (2019)
23	Beamish Museum	County Durham	England	747,651[2] (2017)
25	World Museum, Liverpool	Liverpool	England	672,120(2019)
26	Gallery of Modern Art	Glasgow	Scotland	670,485 (2019)
27	Museum of Science and Industry	Manchester	England	664,000 (2019)
28	Tate Liverpool	Liverpool	England	628,024(2019)
29	Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery	Birmingham	England	602,634 (2019)
30	Churchill War Rooms	London	England	534,723 (2019)
31	Ulster Museum	Belfast	Northern Ireland	533,153 (2019)
32	National Museum Cardiff	Cardiff	Wales	509,981[3](2018)
33	St Fagans National Museum of History	Cardiff	Wales	504,402[4](2017)
34	National Science and Media Museum	Bradford	England	493,000 (2019)
35	Pitt Rivers Museum	Oxford	England	480,663 (2019)
36	V&A Museum of Childhood	London	England	406,101(2019)
37	International Slavery Museum	Liverpool	England	398,221 (2019)
38	The Fitzwilliam Museum	Cambridge	England	397,169 (2019)
39	London Transport Museum	London	England	382,405(2019)
40	Black Country Living Museum	Dudley	England	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

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