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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.
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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.
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.
Europe - Top museums by number of visitors in 2023 Name City Visitors per year Country Year reported Louvre: Paris: 8,900,000 France: 2023 [21] Vatican Museums: Vatican City: 6,800,000 Vatican: 2023 [22] British Museum: London: 5,820,860 United Kingdom: 2023 [23] Natural History Museum: London: 5,688,608 United Kingdom: 2023 [24] Musée d'Orsay ...
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.
500,000 objects [10] (In addition to Africa, Americas & Oceania, the museum embraces holdings from Asia (South, South-East, Far-East and North Asia), the Islamic World, the Children's Museum and the Museum for the Blind.) Russian Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia 500,000 objects [11] British Museum, London, UK 350,000 objects [12]
In many countries it denotes a museum run by the central government, while other museums are run by regional or local governments. [2] In the United States, most national museums are privately funded and operated, but have been designated by Congress as national institutions that are important to the country.