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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]
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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 .
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 Dollhouse Museum (German: Puppenhausmuseum) in Basel is the largest museum of its kind in Europe. Now known as the Spielzeug Welten Museum Basel (Toy Worlds Museum Basle). The museum is located at Barfüsserplatz in the city center.
The estimated total number of museums worldwide is around 104,000. Museum institutions are not evenly distributed globally, with Western Europe and North America housing around 61% of museums as of March 2021. [2] The International Council of Museums comprises approximately 30,000 members in 137 countries.
This is a list of the most visited museums in each region in 2023, based upon the annual reports of museum attendance from the Art Newspaper Review, and from official national sources. If 2023 figures are not available, earlier figures are shown, with the year indicated.
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].