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Top 10 Most-Visited Museums in the World

The museums and heritage sites that draw the biggest crowds every year.

  • Updated 1 h ago
  • 📏 Ranked by visitors per year
  • 🔄 Refreshed weekly
  • 📚 Source: Wikidata

  1. Forbidden City

    People's Republic of China

    19,300,000 visitors

    No change

  2. Pantheon

    Italy

    9,330,835 visitors

    No change

  3. National Museum of China

    People's Republic of China

    8,610,092 visitors

    No change
  1. 4Musée de l'Histoire de FranceFrance8,177,695 visitorsNo change
  2. 5Palace of VersaillesFrance8,132,518 visitorsNo change
  3. 6National MuseumIndia7,400,000 visitorsNo change
  4. 7ColosseumItaly5,832,996 visitorsNo change
  5. 8British MuseumUnited Kingdom5,821,000 visitorsNo change
  6. 9Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition CenterPeople's Republic of China5,000,000 visitorsNo change
  7. 10Roman Forum and the PalatineItaly4,911,702 visitorsNo change
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  1. 11National Museum of American HistoryUnited States4,100,000 visitorsNo change
  2. 12archaeological excavations of PompeiiItaly4,069,377 visitorsNo change
  3. 13Victoria and Albert MuseumUnited Kingdom3,932,738 visitorsNo change
  4. 14National Palace MuseumTaiwan3,860,644 visitorsNo change
  5. 15Antiquarium in PompeiiItaly3,815,839 visitorsNo change
  6. 16Independence National Historical ParkUnited States3,751,007 visitorsNo change
  7. 17Capodimonte parkItaly3,583,023 visitorsNo change
  8. 18National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South KoreaSouth Korea3,536,677 visitorsNo change
  9. 19National Museum of KoreaSouth Korea3,354,161 visitorsNo change
  10. 20Centre Georges PompidouFrance3,273,867 visitorsNo change
  11. 21National Museum of Natural ScienceTaiwan3,142,565 visitorsNo change
  12. 22Moscow Kremlin MuseumsRussia3,101,550 visitorsNo change
  13. 23Altare della PatriaItaly3,094,116 visitorsNo change
  14. 24Science MuseumUnited Kingdom2,989,000 visitorsNo change
  15. 25Tokyo Metropolitan Art MuseumJapan2,873,806 visitorsNo change
  16. 26Tretyakov GalleryRussia2,835,836 visitorsNo change
  17. 27Louvre MuseumFrance2,825,000 visitorsNo change
  18. 28National Folk Museum of KoreaSouth Korea2,762,143 visitorsNo change
  19. 29Tower of LondonUnited Kingdom2,741,126 visitorsNo change
  20. 30Tokyo National MuseumJapan2,684,754 visitorsNo change
  21. 31Museo Centrale del RisorgimentoItaly2,682,925 visitorsNo change
  22. 32CosmoCaixa BarcelonaSpain2,608,985 visitorsNo change
  23. 33National Science and Technology MuseumTaiwan2,583,732 visitorsNo change
  24. 34Museu de les Ciències Príncipe FelipeSpain2,500,000 visitorsNo change
  25. 35RijksmuseumNetherlands2,406,210 visitorsNo change
  26. 36National Maritime MuseumUnited Kingdom2,367,904 visitorsNo change
  27. 37AutostadtGermany2,300,000 visitorsNo change
  28. 38Russian MuseumRussia2,260,231 visitorsNo change
  29. 39Treasury of San MarcoItaly2,250,772 visitorsNo change
  30. 40Multimedia Art Museum, MoscowRussia2,242,405 visitorsNo change
  31. 41Van Gogh MuseumNetherlands2,161,160 visitorsNo change
  32. 42National Portrait GalleryUnited Kingdom2,145,486 visitorsNo change
  33. 43Museo dell'Opera Metropolitana del DuomoItaly2,087,773 visitorsNo change
  34. 44J. Paul Getty MuseumUnited States2,023,467 visitorsNo change
  35. 45Uffizi GalleryItaly2,011,219 visitorsNo change

How this list is ranked

Highest annual visitor count (P1174) recorded on Wikidata for each museum.

Data from Wikidata, refreshed weekly. Arrows show how each entry moved since the previous update.

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