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 |