Most Visited Art Museums in the World Quiz

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Louvre 9,046,000 visitors
It opened as a public museum on August 10, 1793, during the French Revolution.
Vatican Museums 6,933,822 visitors
Pope Julius II founded them in the early 1500s; the visit includes the Sistine Chapel.
National Museum of Korea 6,507,483 visitors
Its Seoul building sits on land that was once a US Army golf course.
British Museum 6,440,120 visitors
It was founded in 1753, largely on the collection of physician Sir Hans Sloane.
The Met 5,984,091 visitors
The Temple of Dendur, an Egyptian temple saved from rising Nile waters, stands inside it.
Russian Museum 5,087,276 visitors
Its main building is the Mikhailovsky Palace, built for a grand duke in the 1820s.
National Museum of Anthropology 5,048,893 visitors
Its treasures include the Aztec Sun Stone and a giant statue of the goddess Coatlicue.
Shanghai Museum East 4,593,216 visitors
This Pudong branch opened in stages in 2024, starting with its ancient bronzes hall.
Tate Modern 4,514,266 visitors
It's housed in the former Bankside Power Station, designed by the architect of Battersea.
National Gallery 4,147,544 visitors
It began in 1824 when the government bought 38 paintings from banker John Julius Angerstein.
Hermitage 3,846,375 visitors
A colony of cats lives on the museum grounds and has become an attraction itself.
Musée d'Orsay 3,785,134 visitors
The building is a railway station finished in time for the 1900 Paris World's Fair.
Prado 3,513,402 visitors
It opened in 1819, and Francisco Goya is the artist with the most works in its collection.
Wawel Castle 3,477,951 visitors
Its kings bought over 350 Flemish tapestries; about 150 spent World War II in Canada.
V&A 3,332,300 visitors
It grew out of the 1851 Great Exhibition, with Prince Albert backing its creation.
Tretyakov Gallery 3,075,976 visitors
Merchant Pavel Tretyakov gave his collection of about 2,000 works to the Russian nation in 1892.
Somerset House 2,895,010 visitors
The Georgian building was put up to house government offices, including the Navy Office.
National Gallery of Art 2,847,587 visitors
It holds Ginevra de' Benci, the only Leonardo da Vinci painting in the Americas.
MoMA 2,763,720 visitors
Van Gogh's The Starry Night hangs in its collection.
Chapultepec Castle 2,676,373 visitors
Emperor Maximilian I and Empress Carlota lived here in the 1860s; it's now a history museum.
Centre Pompidou 2,665,000 visitors
Its 'inside-out' design puts structure and pipes on the outside; it closed in 2025 for renovation.
M+ 2,601,066 visitors
This Hong Kong museum of visual culture opened in November 2021 in West Kowloon.
Tokyo National Museum 2,576,118 visitors
Its origins go back to an 1872 exhibition, making it Japan's oldest national museum.
teamLab Planets 2,516,719 visitors
Visitors go barefoot here, wading through rooms where the water can reach knee level.
NGV International 2,495,189 visitors
The National Gallery of Victoria was founded in 1861 and is Australia's oldest art museum.

Source: The Art Newspaper: Art museum attendance worldwide 2025 (special report, April 2026) · as of 2025

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