Most visited art gallery
- Who
- The Louvre
- What
- 8,860,000 people
- Where
- France (Paris)
- When
- 2023
The most recent Global Attractions Attendance Report, compiled by TEA/AECOM and published on 15 August 2024, named the Louvre in Paris, France, as the most visited art gallery in the world, with 8,860,000 visitors in 2023.
The Louvre saw a 14.7% increase in attendance from 2022, when it welcomed 7,726,000 visitors. In second place on the index were the Vatican Museums in Vatican City, with 6,765,000 visitors for 2023 – up 33.1% from the 2022 figure of 5,081,000 guests as tourism began to recover in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Musée du Louvre is the national museum and art gallery of France, housed in part of a large palace in Paris that was built on the right-bank site of the 12th-century fortress of Philip Augustus.