Top 15 most visited art museums in the world

According to the The Art Newspaper this is the list of 15 most visited art museums in the world. It’s based on the visitor numbers for the year 2013, with new version coming out in April each year.

Many of the museums also feature on the overall list of the most visited museums in the world.

In the picture above: National Museum of Korea.

Rank

 

  Museum

  City

  Visitors

1


 

  Louvre Museum

  Paris, France

  9,334,435

2


 

  British Museum

  London, United Kingdom

  6,701,036

3


 

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  New York City, United States

  6,226,727

4


 

  National Gallery

  London, United Kingdom

  6,031,574

5


 

  Vatican Museums

  Vatican City

  5,978,804

6


 

  Tate Modern

  London, United Kingdom

  4,884,939

7


 

  National Palace Museum

  Taipei, Taiwan

  4,500,278

8


 

  National Gallery of Art

  Washington, D.C., United States

  4,093,070

9


 

  National Museum of Modern Art

  Paris, France

  3,745,000

10


 

  Musée d'Orsay

  Paris, France

  3,500,000

11


 

  Victoria and Albert Museum

  London, United Kingdom

  3,290,500

12


 

  Museo Reina Sofía

  Madrid, Spain

  3,185,413

13


 

  Museum of Modern Art

  New York City, United States

  3,066,337

14


 

  National Museum of Korea

  Seoul, South Korea

  3,052,823

15

 
 

  The State Hermitage Museum

  St. Petersburg, Russia

  2,898,562