List of most visited art museums in the world

The Louvre palace (Richelieu wing)

British Museum, London, United Kingdom

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, United States

This article lists the most visited art museums in the world. The museums are listed by the number of people who visited during 2011.

Rank	Museum	City	Country	Visitor Count
1	Musée du Louvre	Paris	France	8,880,000
2	Metropolitan Museum of Art	New York	USA	6,004,254
3	British Museum	London	UK	5,848,534
4	National Gallery	London	UK	5,253,216
5	Tate Modern	London	UK	4,802,287
6	National Gallery of Art	Washington	USA	4,392,252
7	National Palace Museum	Taipei	Taiwan	3,849,577
8	Centre Pompidou	Paris	France	3,613,076
9	National Museum of Korea	Seoul	South Korea	3,239,549
10	Musee d'Orsay	Paris	France	3,154,000
11	Museo del Prado	Madrid	Spain	2,911,767
12	Hermitage Museum	St Petersburg	Russia	2,879,686
13	Museum of Modern Art	New York	USA	2,814,746
14	Victoria & Albert Museum	London	UK	2,789,400
15	Museo Reina Sofía	Madrid	Spain	2,705,529
16	National Folk Museum of Korea	Seoul	South Korea	2,355,956
17	Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	2,288,117
18	National Portrait Gallery	London	UK	1,880,104
19	Galleria degli Uffizi	Florence	Italy	1,742,970
20	Shanghai Museum	Shanghai	China	1,727,192