The Louvre palace (Richelieu wing)British Museum, London, United KingdomMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, United StatesNational Gallery, London, United KingdomTate Modern, London, United KingdomCentre Pompidou, Paris, FranceNational Gallery, Washington, D.C., United StatesMusée d'Orsay, Paris, FranceMuseo del Prado, Madrid, SpainNational Palace Museum, Taipei, TaiwanNational Museum of Korea, Seoul, South KoreaHermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, RussiaThe High Museum of Art, Atlanta, United States
This article lists the most visited art museums in the world (i.e. all museums with any form of art on display, some museums such as the Natural History Museum are excluded). This list of 100 is based on "2011 worldwide museum attendance numbers" compiled by The Art Newspaper published in April 2012.[1] The country with the highest number of visitors in the top 100 is the United Kingdom. The country with the most museums appearing in the top 100 is the United States. Several major art museums, such as the Palace Museum in Beijing, which annually draw close to 12 million visitors,[2] the Vatican Museums of Rome, with 5,078,004 visitors in 2011,[3] and the National Museum of Anthropology of Mexico City, with 1,767,092 visitors in 2011,[4] were not included.
Museums with more than one building, such as the J. Paul Getty Museum (Getty Center: 1,167,795 visitors; Getty Villa: 350,054 visitors; combined: 1,517,849), were asked to provide separate museum attendance figures for each single location. These venues are indicated with an asterisk (*).
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