Most visited art museums in 2025: global ranking and Italy's top five

Overview 2025

In 2025 the top 100 art museums worldwide recorded more than 200 million visits in total. While the sector shows recovery signs since the pandemic, several major institutions have yet to return to their 2019 attendance levels due to shifts in tourism patterns and visitor behaviour.

Top 10 worldwide

Below are the ten art museums with the highest visitor numbers in 2025 (figures reported by the institutions):

• Musée du Louvre, Paris — 9,046,000 visitors
• Vatican Museums, Rome — 6,933,822 visitors
• National Museum of Korea, Seoul — 6,507,483 visitors
• British Museum, London — 6,440,120 visitors
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York — 5,984,091 visitors
• State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg — 5,087,276 visitors
• Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City — 5,048,893 visitors
• Shanghai Museum East, Shanghai — 4,593,216 visitors
• Tate Modern, London — 4,514,266 visitors
• National Gallery, London — 4,147,544 visitors

Italy's most visited museums in 2025

These are the five Italian museums with the highest attendance in 2025:

• Vatican Museums, Rome — 6,933,822 visitors (2nd globally)
• Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence — 2,279,825 visitors
• Palazzo Ducale, Venice — 1,355,689 visitors
• Egyptian Museum, Turin — 1,273,354 visitors
• Capitoline Museums, Rome — 860,018 visitors

Note: The Uffizi reported approximately 5.3 million visitors across its three interconnected sites but did not provide site-specific data, so it is not listed among single-site rankings.

Data interpretation

The figures come directly from the museums and offer a general overview of attendance trends in 2025. The ranking is indicative, as some institutions did not supply complete or comparable data for the study.