(ZENIT News / Rome, 06.06.2023).- The Art Newspaper published the 2022 classification of the world’s principal museums, according to the number of annual visitors. Together those museums have a total of 141 million visitors a year. The first ten alone number 33.9 tourists, namely, 24% of the total.
Here is the list of the museums occupying the first ten places:
1st The Louvre (Paris, France) – 7.7 million visitors
2nd The Vatican Museums (Vatican City) – 5.08 million visitors
3rd The British Museum (London, England) – 4.09 million
4th The Tate Modern (London, England) – 3.88 million
5th The National Museum of Korea (Seoul, South Korea) – 3.41 million
6th The Musée d’Orsay (Paris, France) – 3.27 million
7th The National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C., USA) – 3.25 million
8th The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA) – 3.21 million
9th The Pompidou Center (Paris, France) – 3.09 million
10th The Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg, Russia) – 2.8 million
Other famous museums occupy these places:
13th The Prado Museum (Madrid, Spain) – 2.4 million
16th The Uffizi Gallery (Florence, Italy) – 2.2 million
28th The Acropolis Museum (Athens, Greece) – 1.4 million
29th The Accademia Gallery (Florence, Italy) – 1.4 million
