As of 2026-10-12, Louvre Museum tops the list with 2,825,000 visitors/year.
- #1 Louvre Museum — 2,825,000 visitors/year
art and archeology museum in Paris, France
The Louvre is a national art museum in Paris, France. It is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement (district) and home to some of the most canonical works of Western art, including the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, and Winged Victory. The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace, originally built in the late 12th to 13th century under Philip II. Remnants of the Medieval Louvre fortress are visible in the basement of the museum. Due to urban expansion, the fortress... Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #2 National Museum of Anthropology — 2,000,000 visitors/year
national museum of Mexico
The National Museum of Anthropology is a national museum of Mexico. It is the largest and most visited museum in Mexico. Located in the area between Paseo de la Reforma and Mahatma Gandhi Street within Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, which is a wide-open natural park and has a great history, because it was the place where Aztec emperors spent time. The museum contains significant archaeological and anthropological artifacts from Mexico's pre-Columbian heritage, such as the Stone of the Sun and... Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #3 Acropolis Museum — 1,774,304 visitors/year
museum in Athens, Greece
The Acropolis Museum is an archaeological museum focused on the findings of the archaeological site of the Acropolis of Athens. The museum was built to house every artifact found on the rock and on the surrounding slopes, from the Greek Bronze Age to Roman and Byzantine Greece. The Acropolis Museum also lies over the ruins of part of Roman and early Byzantine Athens. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #4 Museo Egizio — 898,500 visitors/year
ancient Egyptian art and history museum in Turin, Italy
The Museo Egizio or Egyptian Museum is an archaeological museum in Turin, Italy, specializing in Egyptian archaeology and anthropology. It houses one of the largest collections of Egyptian antiquities, with more than 40,000 artifacts, which is considered the second most important Egyptological collection in the world after the one at the Egyptian Museum of Cairo. Founded in 1824 by King Charles Felix, it is the world's oldest museum dedicated entirely to ancient Egyptian culture. In 2024, it... Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #5 Palazzo Vecchio Museum — 674,659 visitors/year
museum in Florence, Italy
source Wikidata - #6 Naples National Archaeological Museum — 670,594 visitors/year
Italian archeological museum known for Roman materials
The National Archaeological Museum of Naples is an important Italian archaeological museum. Its collection includes works from Greek, Roman and Renaissance times, and especially Roman artifacts from the nearby Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum sites. From 1816 to 1861, it was known as the Royal Bourbon Museum. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #7 MUDEC - Museum of Cultures — 626,650 visitors/year
Etnographic museum in Milan, Italy
source Wikidata - #8 Musei reali di Torino — 626,321 visitors/year
museum and palace complex in Turin
source Wikidata - #9 National Archaeological Museum of Athens — 594,219 visitors/year
museum in Athens, Greece
The National Archaeological Museum in Athens houses some of the most important artifacts from a variety of archaeological locations around Greece from prehistory to late antiquity. It is considered one of the greatest museums in the world and contains the richest collection of Greek Antiquity artifacts worldwide. It is situated in the Exarcheia area in central Athens between Epirus Street, Bouboulinas Street and Tositsas Street while its entrance is on the Patission Street, adjacent to the... Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #10 Heraklion Archaeological Museum — 555,031 visitors/year
archaeological museum in Heraklion
The Heraklion Archaeological Museum is a museum located in Heraklion on Crete. It is one of the largest museums in Greece, and the best in the world for Minoan art, as it contains by far the most important and complete collection of artefacts of the Minoan civilization of Crete. It is normally referred to scholarship in English as "AMH", a form still sometimes used by the museum in itself. Read more on Wikipedia.
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