This article lists the most-visited
art museum
An art museum or art gallery is a building or space for the display of art, usually from the museum's own collection. It might be in public or private ownership and may be accessible to all or have restrictions in place. Although primarily con ...
s in the world in 2021. The primary source is ''
The Art Newspaper
''The Art Newspaper'' is a monthly print publication, with daily updates online, founded in 1990 and based in London and New York City. It covers news of the visual arts as they are affected by international politics and economics, developments ...
'' annual survey of the number of visitors to major art museums in 2021, published 28 March 2022.
Total attendance in the top one hundred art museums in 2021 was 71 million visitors, up from 54 million in 2020, but far below the 230 million visitors at the top hundred museums in 2019.
[''The Art Newspaper'', March 28, 2022]
Museums in the United States and Western Europe usually measure attendance for the calendar year from January through December, while many museums in East Asia and Britain measure attendance for the fiscal year, from April through March.
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List of most-visited museums
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List of most-visited museums in the United States
This is a list of the most-visited museums in the United States in 2020. It is based upon the annual survey of museum attendance by the Art Newspaper published in March 2021, the TEA-AECOM Museum survey, published in September 2021, and some ...
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List of most visited museums in the United Kingdom
This article lists the most visited museums in the United Kingdom (including art galleries). The first twenty museums show the 2020 attendance numbers of the members of the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions unless otherwise noted. ...
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List of most visited palaces and monuments
This is a list of the most visited national monuments, including palaces, historical monuments and historic sites. It does not include churches, religious shrines and pilgrimage sites . Sources used to compile the list include an annual s ...
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List of most-visited museums by region
This is a list of the top twenty most visited museums in each region in 2020, based upon the annual reports of museum attendance from the Art Newspaper Review and the Museum Index of the Themed Entertainment Association. If 2020 figures are not av ...
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List of art museums
Africa
Algeria
* Algiers: Museum of Modern Art of Algiers, Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions, National Museum of Fine Arts of Algiers
* Oran: Ahmed Zabana National Museum
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Egypt
* Cairo: Egyptian Museum, Museum of ...
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List of largest art museums
Art museums are some of the largest buildings in the world. The world's most pre-eminent museums have also engaged in various expansion projects through the years, expanding their total exhibition space.
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The following is a list of art mus ...
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List of single-artist museums
This is a list of single-artist museums, which are museums displaying the work of, or bearing the name of, a single visual artist.
* Basuki Abdullah – Basoeki Abdullah Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia
* Affandi – Affandi Museum, Yogyakarta, Indon ...
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