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List of most-visited museums by region

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This is a list of the most visited museums in each region in 2022, based upon the annual reports of museum attendance from the Art Newspaper Review, and from official national sources. If 2022 figures are not available, earlier figures are shown, with the year indicated.

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TEA-AECOM Museum Index 2022, published June 2023
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TEA-AECOM Museum Index 2022, published June 2023
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TEA-AECOM Museum Index 2022, published June 2023
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"The Art Newspaper", March 27, 2023
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"Statista", "Number of visitors to the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada from 2014 to 2022", retrieved 7 April 2023
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"Site of the National Gallery of Canada, retrieved 9 April 2023
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Estadística de Visitantes, Mexican Ministry of Culture (INAH), accessed April 9, 2023
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"The Art Newspaper", March 17, 2023

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AECOM-TEA Museum Index 2020

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Asia - Top twenty museums by number of visitors per year
Name	City	Visitors annually	Year reported
National Museum of Korea	Seoul	3,411,381	2022^[1]
National Museum of Natural Science	Taichung	2,300,000	2022^[2]
M+	Hong Kong	2,034,331	2022^[3]
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art	Seoul	1,806,641	2022^[4]
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum	Tokyo	1,509,970	2022^[5]
The National Art Center, Tokyo	Tokyo	1,400,096	2022^[6]
Tokyo National Museum	Tokyo	1,372,132	2022^[7]
National Gallery Singapore	Singapore	1,262,189	2022 ^[8]
National Museum of China	Beijing	1,631,000	2022^[9]
Shanghai Science and Technology Museum	Shanghai	494,000	2022^[10]
National Palace Museum^[iii]	Taipei	1,040,000	2022^[11]
China Science and Technology Museum	Beijing	1,431,000	2022^[12]
Zhejiang Provincial Museum	Hangzhou	874,000	2022^[13]
National Taiwan Science Education Center	Taipei	1,082,000	2020^[14]
Shaanxi History Museum	Xi'an	1,000,000	2020^[15]
National Museum of Nature and Science	Tokyo	1,350,000	2022^[16]
Shanghai Museum	Shanghai	604,090	2020^[17]
China Art Museum	Shanghai	2,550,000	2017^[18]
Three Gorges Museum	Chongqing	2,112,000	2017^[19]^[20]
National Science and Technology Museum	Kaohsiung	1,981,000	2017^[20]
National Folk Museum of Korea	Seoul	1,813,626	2017^[19]

Australia and New Zealand
Name	Country flag, city	Visitors per year	Year reported
National Gallery of Victoria	Melbourne	1,580,303	2022 ^[21]
National Gallery of Australia	Canberra	1,021,983	2022^[22]
Museum of New Zealand	Wellington	863,129	2022 ^[23]
Queensland Gallery of Modern Art	Brisbane	271,030	2020^[24]

Art Gallery of New South Wales	Sydney	548,190	2020^[24]
Australian Centre for the Moving Image	Melbourne	1,316,000	2016^[25]
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia	Sydney	1,206,000	2017^[19]

Europe - Top museums by number of visitors in 2022
Name	Country flag, city	Visitors per year	Year reported
Louvre	Paris	7,726,321	2022^[26]
Vatican Museums	Vatican City	5,080,866	2022^[26]
Natural History Museum	London	4,654,608	2022^[27]
Tate Modern	London	3,883,160	2022^[26]
Musée d'Orsay	Paris	3,270,182	2022^[26]
Centre Pompidou	Paris	3,009,570	2022^[26]
National Gallery	London	2,727,119	2022^[26]
State Hermitage Museum	Saint Petersburg	2,651,688	2022^[26]
Museo del Prado	Madrid	2,456,724	2022^[26]
Victoria and Albert Museum	London	2,370,261	2022^[26]
London Science Museum	London,	2,324,580	2022^[28]
Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie	Paris	1,992,823	2022^[26]
Tretyakov Gallery	Moscow	1,910,000	2022^[26]
Galleria degli Uffizi	Florence	1,721,637	2022^[26]
Reina Sofía	Madrid	1,318,823	2022^[26]
Rijksmuseum	Amsterdam	1,766,084	2022^[26]
Galleria dell'Accademia	Florence	1,428,369	2022^[26]
Van Gogh Museum	Amsterdam	1,364,023	2022^[26]

North America: Top museums in 2022
Name	Country flag, city	Visitors per year	Year reported
National Museum of Natural History	Washington, D.C.	3,900,000	2022 ^[29]
National Gallery of Art	Washington, D.C.	3,256,433	2022^[30]
Metropolitan Museum of Art	New York City	3,208,832	2022^[31]
Museum of Modern Art	New York City	2,190,440	2022^[32]
Smithsonian Museum of American History	Washington, D.C.	1,800,000	2022^[33]
National Air and Space Museum (with Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center)	Washington, DC	2,190,440	2022^[34]
National Museum of African American History and Culture	Washington, D.C.	1,200,000	2022^[35]
Art Institute of Chicago	Chicago	1,037,158	2022^[36]
Los Angeles County Museum of Art	Los Angeles	867,322	2022^[37]
Getty Center	Los Angeles	989,302	2022^[38]
Royal Ontario Museum	Toronto	796,579	2022^[39]
National Gallery of Canada	Ottawa	165,854	2021-22^[40]
National Museum of Anthropology	Mexico City	1,494,587	2022^[41]
National Museum of History	Mexico City	1,486,379	2022^[42]
Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology	Drumheller, AB	501,430	2022

South America
Name	Country flag, city	Visitors per year	Year reported
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil	Rio de Janeiro	1,364,208	2022^[43]
Museu Nacional da Republica	Brasilia	935,168	2017^[19]
Instituto Tomie Otake	São Paulo	895,769	2017^[19]

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Africa

Asia

Australia and New Zealand

Europe

North America

South America

See also

References

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