Museums, Ranked

The most-visited museum on Earth with roughly 8.9 million visitors in 2023, home to the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, and over 35,000 works on display.

Drawing around 6.8 million visitors a year, its galleries culminate in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling and Raphael's Rooms.

One of the world's greatest collections of human history with about 5.8 million visitors in 2023, holding the Rosetta Stone and Parthenon Marbles.

The largest art museum in the Western Hemisphere with over 1.5 million works and roughly 5.4 million visitors in 2023, spanning 5,000 years of art.

Madrid's national gallery holds the world's finest collection of Spanish art, including Velázquez's Las Meninas and Goya's black paintings.

Founded by Catherine the Great in 1764, it holds around 3 million items across the Winter Palace, one of the largest collections in existence.

Florence's Uffizi houses the definitive collection of Italian Renaissance painting, including Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Primavera.

Set in a former Beaux-Arts railway station, it holds the world's greatest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces.

Amsterdam's national museum is the shrine of the Dutch Golden Age, anchored by Rembrandt's monumental The Night Watch.

Trafalgar Square's gallery holds a comprehensive collection of Western European painting from the 1200s to 1900, from Van Eyck to Van Gogh.

New York's MoMA defined the canon of modern art, holding Van Gogh's The Starry Night and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

Taipei's museum holds nearly 700,000 pieces of Chinese art and imperial artifacts, one of the largest collections of Chinese antiquities in the world.

The Smithsonian's aviation museum holds the Wright Flyer and Apollo 11 command module and has ranked among the most-visited museums in the world.

The Florence gallery is world-famous as the home of Michelangelo's original David, drawing over a million visitors a year to a single sculpture.

Frank Gehry's 1997 titanium-clad building triggered the Bilbao Effect, becoming as celebrated for its architecture as for its modern art.

Housed in a former power station on the Thames, it is the UK's national museum of modern art and consistently one of the world's most-visited galleries.

Amsterdam's museum holds the largest collection of Van Gogh's works anywhere, over 200 paintings and 500 drawings by the Dutch master.

Madrid's national museum of 20th-century art is centered on Picasso's Guernica, one of the most important political paintings of the modern era.

One of the oldest and largest art museums in the US, holding Grant Wood's American Gothic and Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte.

The travertine-clad Los Angeles campus offers free admission, a strong European painting collection, and one of the finest museum settings in America.

The Cairo museum long held the world's most extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities, including the treasures of Tutankhamun.

Vienna's museum holds the imperial Habsburg art collection, including the world's largest group of paintings by Bruegel the Elder.

Berlin's Museum Island landmark reconstructs monumental antiquities including the Ishtar Gate and Pergamon Altar at full scale.

On Tiananmen Square, it is among the most-visited museums in the world and the largest in Asia by floor space, covering Chinese history end to end.

Frank Lloyd Wright's 1959 spiraling New York rotunda is itself a modern-art landmark, housing a major collection of modern and contemporary works.

Opened in 2017 under a Jean Nouvel dome, it is the largest art museum in the Arabian Peninsula and shares the Louvre name under a landmark loan deal.

Mexico City's museum holds the world's largest collection of ancient Mexican art, including the Aztec Sun Stone and colossal Olmec heads.