The Most Visited Museums in the World

The Louvre Museum in Paris (shown in the image) was the most visited museum in the world in 2007, with over eight million visitors, ahead of the British Museum in London, which had nearly 5.5 million, and the Tate Gallery in London with 5.1 million visits. Following are the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (4.3 million), the Vatican Museum (4.3), the National Gallery in London (4.1), the Palace of Versailles (3.4), the Musée d'Orsay (3.1), the National Museum of Tokyo (3.1), the Prado Museum in Madrid (2.6), the Pompidou Center (2.5), the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2.4), and the Quai Branly Museum of Primitive Arts in Paris (1.8). Regarding temporary exhibitions, the one titled 'From Manet to Picasso' in London was the most successful in 2007, with just over one million visits, ahead of 'The Spirit of Leonardo da Vinci' in Tokyo (770,000). In Spain, in a list where museums and monuments compete, the Alhambra and Generalife Park in Granada was the most visited in 2007, with 3.1 million visitors, followed by the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona (2.8 million) and the Prado Museum in Madrid (2.6). The list continues with the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid (over 1.5 million visitors), the Dalí Museums in Catalonia (1.3), the Guggenheim in Bilbao (a little over one million), the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid (978,000), the MACBA in Barcelona (562,000), and the Picasso Museum in Málaga (340,000).