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.

See also: List of most-visited museums and List of most-visited art museums

Europe
Europe - Top twenty Museums by number of visitors per year
NameCountry flag, cityVisitors per yearYear reported
Louvre Paris2,700,0002020[1]
Vatican Museums Vatican City1,300,0002020[1]
British Museum London1,275,4662020[1]
Tate Modern London1,432,9412020[1]
National Gallery London1,197,1432020[1]
Natural History Museum London1,197,0002020[2]
State Hermitage Museum Saint Petersburg968,6042020[1]
Reina Sofía Madrid1,248,4802020[1]
Victoria and Albert Museum London872,2402020[1]
Centre Pompidou Paris912,8032020[1]
London Science Museum London862,0852020[1]
Somerset House London724,3102020[2]
Musée d'Orsay Paris867,7242020[1]
Museo del Prado Madrid852,1612020[1]
Moscow Kremlin Museums Moscow424,9222020[1]
Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam516,9902020[1]
Galleria degli Uffizi Florence659,0002020[1]
Tretyakov Gallery Moscow894,3742020[1]
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam675,0002020[1]

North America
North America: Top twenty museums by number of visitors per year
NameCountry flag, cityVisitors per yearYear reported
National Air and Space Museum Washington, D.C.267,0002020[3]
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City1,125,0002020[4]
National Museum of Natural History Washington, D.C.573,0002020[5]
National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C.730,0002020[6]
National Museum of American History Washington, D.C.311,0002020[7]
Museum of Modern Art New York City706,0002020[8]
National Museum of African American History and Culture Washington, D.C.368,0002020[9]
National Museum of Anthropology Mexico City438,9372020[10]
National Museum of History Mexico City617,3652020[11]
California Science Center Los Angeles240,0002020[12]
Denver Museum of Nature and Science Denver991,0002020[13]
Field Museum of Natural History Chicago316,0002020[14]
Art Institute of Chicago Chicago375,0002020[15]
Udvar-Hazy Center[ii] Chantilly, VA311,5482020[16]
Getty Center Los Angeles267,0352020[1]

Asia
Asia - Top twenty museums by number of visitors per year
NameCityVisitors annuallyYear reported
National Museum of China Beijing1,600,0002020[17]
Shanghai Science and Technology Museum Shanghai1,351,0002020[18]
National Palace Museum[iii] Taipei643,0002020[19]
China Science and Technology Museum Beijing690,0002020[20]
Zhejiang Provincial Museum Hangzhou1,108,0002020[21]
National Museum of Korea Seoul774,0002020[22]
Nanjing Museum Nanjing1,515,0002020[23]
National Museum of Natural Science Taichung2,263,0002020[24]
The National Art Center, Tokyo Tokyo413,3162020[1]
National Taiwan Science Education Center Taipei1,082,0002020[25]
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Tokyo510,1172020[1]
Shaanxi History Museum Xi'an1,000,0002020[26]
National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo580,0002020[27]
Tokyo National Museum Tokyo725,0002020[28]
Shanghai Museum Shanghai604,0902020[29]
Three Gorges Museum Chongqing2,112,0002017[30][31]
National Science and Technology Museum Kaohsiung1,981,0002017[31]
National Folk Museum of Korea Seoul1,813,6262017[30]

Australia and New Zealand
Australia and New Zealand
NameCountry flag, cityVisitors per yearYear reported
Queensland Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane271,0302020[1]
National Gallery of Australia Canberra302,5922020[1]
Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney548,1902020[1]
National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne636,9542020[1]
Australian Centre for the Moving Image Melbourne1,316,0002016[32]
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia Sydney1,206,0002017[30]

South America
South America
NameCountry flag, cityVisitors per yearYear reported
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Rio de Janeiro790,3572020[33]
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Brasília1,229,4322017[30]
Museu Nacional da Republica Brasilia935,1682017[30]
Instituto Tomie Otake São Paulo895,7692017[30]


See also

References
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