Data

Visits to top five most visited museums & galleries

City Figure Source and Notes
Amsterdam 7,642,000 2019 Amsterdamse Musea — Only relates to top 5 most visited Museums
Austin 456,459 2021 Art Austin
Barcelona 9,694,113 2019 Cultural Data Observatory. Institute of Culture. Barcelona City Council
Brasília 150,259 2021 Secec — This is from top four most visited museums
Brussels 2,472,751 2014 City of Brussels
Edinburgh 8,046,278 2019 Association of Scottish Visitor Attractions and NOMIS population estimates
Guangzhou 2,154,100 2020 Reported Figures
Helsinki 2,046,137 2019 City of Helsinki
Hong Kong 2,920,000 2019/20 LCSD
İstanbul 3,043,430 2021 İstanbul Directorate of Culture and Tourism
Lisbon 2,371,795 2017 EGEAC/DGPC/C�mara Municipal de Lisboa
London 5,995,421 2021 ALVA
Los Angeles 4,141,210 2019 The Art Newspaper + Getty
Melbourne 1,766,957 2021 Direct from Museum attendance reports
Milan 2,124,856 2020 GIORNALE DELL'ARTE 2020
Montréal 893,105 2020 Tourisme Montréal
Nanjing 10,990,680 2021 Bureau of Culture and Tourism
New York 16,000,000 2015 NYC Go
Oslo 2,168,842 2019 The National Museum was closed in 2019.
Paris 7,121,489 2020 CDT – CRT Paris Île-de-France – Monuments – Musées – OTCP
San Francisco 3,950,562 2017 Arts Magazine Special Report on Visitor Figures 2017/Annual reports
Seoul 11,017,559 2017 Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (Overview of nationwide cultural infrastructure 2017)
Stockholm 2,287,447 2021 
Sydney 4,241,512 2017 City of Sydney
Taipei 5,255,085 2021 
Tokyo 2,782,050 2020 The Art Newspaper Special Report - March 2021; National Museum of Nature and Science - Profile 2021
Toronto 1,000,000 2021 CADAC
Vienna 8,272,000 Statistik Austria
Warsaw 6,421,027 2013 City of Warsaw database
Zürich 973,548 2022 Stadt Zürcher Museen

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