Museum Attendance 2008

The Art Newspaper recently ran an article with a listing of the most popular museums based upon visits. The Louvre is by far the most popular based upon attendance figures, followed by the British Museum, then the National Gallery in Washington DC, the Tate and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The listing follows.

8,500,000 Louvre Paris
5,930,000 British Museum London
4,964,061 National Gallery of Art Washington
4,950,003 Tate Modern London
4,821,079 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
4,441,734 Vatican Museums Rome
4,382,614 National Gallery London
2,981,000 Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville Paris
3,025,141 Musée d’Orsay Paris
2,900,157 Museum of Modern Art New York
2,759,029 Museo Nacional del Prado Madrid
2,750,000 *Centre Pompidou Paris
2,475,323 National Art Center Tokyo Tokyo
2,359,600 State Hermitage Museum St Petersburg
2,244,284 National Palace Museum Taipei
2,137,992 Tokyo National Museum Tokyo
2,065,300 Victoria and Albert Museum London
1,860,772 De Young Museum San Francisco
1,843,266 National Portrait Gallery London
1,818,202 Reina Sofia Madrid
1,727,000 Moscow Kremlin Museums Moscow
1,661,308 Museum of Fine Arts Houston Houston
1,619,369 Tate Britain London
1,553,951 Galleria degli Uffizi Florence
1,542,800 Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
1,510,000 Shanghai Museum Shanghai
1,474,816 Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam
1,462,000 Pinacothèque Paris
1,444,828 Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Glasgow
1,397,463 Art Institute of Chicago Chicago
1,389,000 Musée Quai Branly Paris
1,387,972 Tretyakov Gallery Moscow
1,358,186 Palazzo Ducale Venice
1,350,000 Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney
1,298,000 Pergamonmuseum Berlin
1,236,348 Getty Museum Los Angeles
1,234,321 Galleria dell’Accademia Florence
1,224,000 Grand Palais Paris
1,200,000 Guggenheim Museum New York
1,142,600 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington
1,088,504 Tate Liverpool Liverpool
1,084,692 National Museum of Western Art Tokyo
1,080,000 Altes Museum Berlin
1,060,575 Royal Ontario Museum Toronto
1,033,187 Royal Academy of Arts London
1,005,328 National Portrait Gallery Washington
997,739 Albertina Vienna
977,085 Museum of Fine Arts Boston
970,000 Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
951,369 Guggenheim Bilbao
923,653 SFMoMA San Francisco
892,295 Freer and Sackler Galleries Washington
881,156 Queensland Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane
856,789 Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia
838,307 LACMA Los Angeles
822,701 National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) Melbourne
807,283 Österreichische Galerie Belvedere Vienna
766,000 Dallas Museum of Art Dallas
759,585 Nara National Museum Nara
759,347 Walker Art Center Minneapolis
754,963 Musée Rodin Paris
753,225 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Madrid
745,000 Musée du Luxembourg Paris