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Museums hold large collections of items relating to their subject, building some of the largest complexes in the world in order to store and exhibit the collection in a controlled atmosphere. The world's most important museums have also engaged in various expansion projects through the years, expanding their total exhibition space. [1]
Building Name City Country Gallery space in m 2 (ft 2) Year established Louvre: Paris France 72,735 (782,910) [2] 1792 State Hermitage Museum: St. Petersburg Russia 66,842 (719,480) [3] [note 1]
Europe - Top museums by number of visitors in 2023 Name City Visitors per year Country Year reported Louvre: Paris: 8,900,000 France 2023 [11]: Vatican Museums: Vatican City
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.
The State Hermitage Museum (Russian: Государственный Эрмитаж, romanized: Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž, IPA: [ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)ɨj ɪrmʲɪˈtaʂ]) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and holds the largest collection of paintings in the world [3] [4].
At any given point in time, approximately 38,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century are being exhibited over an area of 72,735 m 2 (782,910 sq ft), making it the largest museum in the world. It received 8.7 million visitors in 2024, 200,000 less than 2023, due largely to competition from the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The 100 most popular art museums in the world in 2022, divided by countries and continents. 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.
The museum has the world's largest collection of armoured fighting vehicles and contains well over 880 vehicles, although The Tank Museum in Bovington in Dorset has a larger number of tanks. Because of shortage of space, less than a quarter can be exhibited, despite the move to a much larger building in 1993.