As of 2026-10-12, Palace of Versailles tops the list with 8,132,518 visitors/year.
- #1 Palace of Versailles — 8,132,518 visitors/year
palace in Versailles, France and location of the Museum of the History of France
The Palace of Versailles is a château and historic monument in Versailles in the Yvelines department of France, southwest of Paris. It served as the principal residence of the French kings Louis XIV, Louis XV, and Louis XVI. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #2 National Museum — 7,400,000 visitors/year
National and art museum in New Delhi, India
The National Museum, New Delhi, also known as the National Museum of India, is one of the largest museums in India. Established in 1949, it holds a variety of articles ranging from the pre-historic era to modern works of art. It functions under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. The museum is situated on Janpath. The blueprint of the National Museum had been prepared by the Gwyer Committee set up by the Government of India in 1946. The museum has around 200,000 works of art, mostly... Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #3 British Museum — 5,821,000 visitors/year
national museum in London, United Kingdom
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million artefacts is the largest in the world. It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present. Established in 1753, the British Museum was the world's first public national museum. In 2025, the museum received 6,440,120 visitors and was the second most visited attraction in the United Kingdom. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #4 Victoria and Albert Museum — 3,932,738 visitors/year
museum in London, England, United Kingdom
The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #5 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum — 2,873,806 visitors/year
museum in Tokyo, Japan
The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum is a museum of art located in Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan. The first public art museum in Japan, it opened in 1926 as the Tokyo Prefectural Art Museum and was renamed in 1943 after Tokyo became a metropolitan prefecture. The original building was replaced by one built in 1975 designed by modernist architect Kunio Maekawa. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #6 Tretyakov Gallery — 2,835,836 visitors/year
art museum in Moscow, Russia
The State Tretyakov Gallery is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, which is considered the foremost depository of Russian fine art in the world. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #7 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 - #8 Rijksmuseum — 2,406,210 visitors/year
museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Rijksmuseum is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history, located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and the Royal Concertgebouw. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #9 Russian Museum — 2,260,231 visitors/year
art museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia
The State Russian Museum, formerly known as the Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III, on Arts Square in Saint Petersburg, is the world's largest depository of Russian fine art. It is also one of the largest art museums in the world with a total area over 30 hectares. In 2022 it attracted 2,651,688 visitors, ranking twelfth on list of most-visited art museums in the world. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #10 Treasury of San Marco — 2,250,772 visitors/year
sacred Byzantine jewellery
The Treasury of St Mark's Basilica contains the church treasure or collection of sacred objects and reliquaries kept in St Mark's Basilica in Venice, Italy. The treasure constitutes the single best collection of Byzantine metalwork and enamels that survives, many of the items having been looted during the Fourth Crusade of 1204. The treasury also contains some significant artworks made for the basilica itself, but no longer used there. Read more on Wikipedia.
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