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Europe - Top museums by number of visitors in 2023 Name City Visitors per year Country Year reported Louvre: Paris: 8,900,000 France: 2023 [22] Vatican Museums: Vatican City: 6,800,000 Vatican: 2023 [23] British Museum: London: 5,820,860 United Kingdom: 2023 [24] Natural History Museum: London: 5,688,608 United Kingdom: 2023 [25] Musée d'Orsay ...
This is a list of the most-visited museums in the world in 2023 by annual attendance statistics. Total attendance at the top sixty museums in 2023, as reported by the annual TEA-AECOM Museum survey, reached 94 percent of 2019 levels, before the COVID 19 pandemic .
In 2023, total attendance in the most-visited art museums returned largely to the level of 2019, for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began. [ 1 ] A primary source for 2023 figures is the Art Newspaper , [1] , whose most recent annual survey was published in March 2024.
In 2023, the museum had 861,000 visitors, compared with 1.2 million in 2019 (before the COVID-19 pandemic). [ 1 ] [ 399 ] According to museum officials, surveys over the years have indicated that most visitors came because of the building's architecture rather than its artwork. [ 187 ]
The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. It has free admission and is open 364 days a year. With 4.4 million visitors in 2023, it was the third most-visited museum in the United States. [6]
The museum provides free general admission to the public. With a $920 million endowment (2023), it is the fourth-wealthiest art museum in the United States. [5] [6] With about 770,000 visitors annually (2018), it is one of the most visited art museums in the world. [7]
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is an independent agency of the United States federal government established in 1996. It is the main source of federal support for libraries and museums within the United States, having the mission to advance, support, and empower America’s museums, libraries, and related organizations through grantmaking, research, and policy development ...
On October 3, 2019, the museum announced that it intended to change its name to the Kenneth C. Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, after a donation of $125 million from billionaire Kenneth C. Griffin. It is the largest single gift in the museum's history, [8] [9] effectively doubling its endowment. However, president and chief executive ...