The Louvre is Still the World’s Most Visited Museum, 2025 Study Shows
1April 2, 2026
TheArt Newspaper’s annual survey of museum attendance found that theLouvrein Paris continues to be the most visited museum in the world, even though numbers have dipped significantly since Covid—the institution, which has recently been plagued by a major jewel heist and a ticket fraud scheme, welcomed over 9 million people in 2025.
Some newer museums on the come-up are doing impressive numbers already, the report found.M+, the 20th and 21st century–centric museum that opened in Hong Kong in 2021, drew 2.6 million visitors last year.
Shanghai Museum East, which debuted in 2024 with a tremendous 4.2 million visitors, improved things further in 2025 with 4.6 million. In the UK, the British Museum clocked 6.4 million visitors and London’s Natural History Museum earned 7.1 million.
The most visited museum in the United States continues to be The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Art Newspaper found—the institution got almost 6 million visitors in 2025, a 4 percent increase from the previous year.
Overall, per the Art Newspaper, the top ten most visited museums in the world in 2025 were: the Louvre, the Vatican Museums, the National Museum of Korea in Seoul, the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City, Shanghai Museum East, the Tate Modern in London and London’s National Gallery.