World's Most Visited Museums 2024
About This Dataset
World's Most Visited Museums 2024
Museums ranked by total annual visitor numbers in 2024. The Louvre in Paris remains the most visited museum in the world, welcoming approximately 9 million visitors annually — with Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa drawing the single largest daily crowd of any artwork on Earth, despite being a relatively small painting displayed behind protective glass at a significant distance from viewers.
Analysis
Louvre (France) heads the table on 9, ahead of Vatican Museums (Italy) (7.20) and National Museum of Natural History (USA) (6.80) in Annual Visitors (Millions) in 2024. The total is spread widely: even Louvre (France) accounts for only 17.8% of the 8 combined. Places 3 to 8 are close together, spanning 6.80 to 4.90.
Source:
Wikipedia
Key Findings
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Louvre (France) leads in Annual Visitors (Millions) with 9 in 2024.
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Average Annual Visitors (Millions) in 2024: 6 · median: 6.
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Gap in 2024: Louvre (France) is 1.8× larger than National Gallery (UK).
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 2024 · 8 observations
- Measure
- Annual Visitors (Millions)
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2024.
Data Sources & References
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