Most Visited Museums
The world’s most visited museums reveal where global culture draws the largest crowds. This ranking lists museums by annual visitor numbers, with each entry tied to a year, location, source, and verification status.
Visitor figures can vary depending on how museums count guests, exhibitions, sites, branches, and ticketed attendance. Global Museum Reviews uses sourced attendance data and editorial checks to make the ranking clear, useful, and transparent.
Verified annual guest rankings Explore real-world museum attendance rankings based on sourced annual visitor figures. Each entry includes a year, source, verification status, and location so the ranking can be checked and updated over time. Beijing, China Chengdu, China Xi'an, China New York City, United States New York City, United States Washington, D.C., United States Global Museum Reviews stores annual attendance figures with a year, source, source URL, and verification status. Public rankings only show sourced records marked Official, Industry report, or Editorial verified by default. Museum attendance can be counted differently by different institutions, so source visibility is part of the ranking.Most Visited Museums in the World 2024
Palace Museum
Chengdu Wuhou Shrine Museum
Museum of Emperor Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum
Rank Museum Location Annual visitors Year Source #1 Palace Museum
Industry reportBeijing, China
Asia17,000,000
17M guests2024 TEA/AECOM Museum Index 2024 via Blooloop #2 Chengdu Wuhou Shrine Museum
Industry reportChengdu, China
Asia14,570,000
14.6M guests2024 TEA/AECOM Museum Index 2024 via Blooloop #3 Museum of Emperor Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum
Industry reportXi'an, China
Asia11,610,000
11.6M guests2024 TEA/AECOM Museum Index 2024 via Blooloop #4 Musée du Louvre
Industry reportParis, France
Europe8,737,000
8.7M guests2024 TEA/AECOM Museum Index 2024 via Blooloop; Louvre official report #5 Opium War Museum
Industry reportDongguan, China
Asia7,221,000
7.2M guests2024 TEA/AECOM Museum Index 2024 via Blooloop #6 National Museum of China
Industry reportBeijing, China
Asia6,957,000
7M guests2024 TEA/AECOM Museum Index 2024 via Blooloop #7 Vatican Museums
Industry reportVatican City, Vatican City
Europe6,825,000
6.8M guests2024 TEA/AECOM Museum Index 2024 via Blooloop #8 Shenzhen Nanshan District Museum
Industry reportShenzhen, China
Asia6,805,000
6.8M guests2024 TEA/AECOM Museum Index 2024 via Blooloop #9 British Museum
Industry reportLondon, United Kingdom
Europe6,480,000
6.5M guests2024 TEA/AECOM Museum Index 2024 via Blooloop; The Art Newspaper #10 Natural History Museum, London
Industry reportLondon, United Kingdom
Europe6,302,000
6.3M guests2024 TEA/AECOM Museum Index 2024 via Blooloop #11 Sanxingdui Museum
Industry reportGuanghan, China
Asia5,994,000
6M guests2024 TEA/AECOM Museum Index 2024 via Blooloop #12 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Industry reportNew York City, United States
North America5,727,000
5.7M guests2024 TEA/AECOM Museum Index 2024 via Blooloop #13 Nanjing Museum
Industry reportNanjing, China
Asia5,680,000
5.7M guests2024 TEA/AECOM Museum Index 2024 via Blooloop #14 China Science and Technology Museum
Industry reportBeijing, China
Asia5,421,000
5.4M guests2024 TEA/AECOM Museum Index 2024 via Blooloop #15 American Museum of Natural History
Industry reportNew York City, United States
North America5,400,000
5.4M guests2024 TEA/AECOM Museum Index 2024 via Blooloop #16 The Museum of Dr Sun Yat-Sen
Industry reportZhongshan, China
Asia5,100,000
5.1M guests2024 TEA/AECOM Museum Index 2024 via Blooloop #17 Tate Modern
Industry reportLondon, United Kingdom
Europe4,603,000
4.6M guests2024 TEA/AECOM Museum Index 2024 via Blooloop #18 National Gallery of Art
Industry reportWashington, D.C., United States
North America3,937,000
3.9M guests2024 TEA/AECOM Museum Index 2024 via Blooloop #19 National Museum of Natural History
Industry reportWashington, D.C., United States
North America3,900,000
3.9M guests2024 TEA/AECOM Museum Index 2024 via Blooloop; Smithsonian official stats #20 Musée d'Orsay
Industry reportParis, France
Europe3,751,000
3.8M guests2024 TEA/AECOM Museum Index 2024 via Blooloop The Metropolitan Museum of Art
American Museum of Natural History
National Museum of Natural History
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