The Louvre Museum, with 7,726,321 visitors, continues to top the list of the most visited museums in the world, surpassing the Vatican Museums by 2.5 million and the British Museum by 3.6 million, which rank second and third. position respectively in the report of the 100 main museums in the world that each year is prepared by the specialized magazine The Newpaper. According to this publication, 2022 was the year of the return of visitors to museums after the covid restrictions, but the global figures (141 million) are still far from the all-time high recorded in 2019, when 230 million visits were recorded.
The growth of the Louvre (last year’s figure is 173% higher than that of 2021, although 20% lower than that of 2019, which reached 9.5 million) has been the touchstone for those responsible to decide limit daily entries to 30,000 people, to guarantee the quality of the experience. This will mean that in the future its ceiling will never exceed between 7.5 and 8.5 visits, which will not prevent it from continuing to be on the podium for a long time.
After the Louvre, the Vatican Museums and the British Museum, the fourth most visited art center was the Tate Modern with (3,883,160), the National Museum of Korea (3,411,381), the Orsay Museum (3,270,182) , the National Gallery in Washington (3,256,433), the Center Pompidou (3,009,570) and the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg (2,812,913), which managed to appear on the list with the highest number of entries despite the war in Ukraine. Collectively, the top ten received almost nearly 40 million views.
As for the Spanish museums, the Prado Museum occupies number 13, with 2,456,724 visits (115.43% more than in 2021), while the Reina Sofía is condemned to position 36 and 40 by dividing the count between the main headquarters (1,171,367), the Crystal Palace (1,318,823) and that of Velázquez (491,086). Between the three they add 3,063,092 visits, which would enter the top ten, only one position below the Metropolitan and one above the Pompidou. At a greater distance, the Guggenheim Bilbao stands at number 37 (1,289,147), the Thyssen-Bornesmiza occupies number 47 (1,073,183), the Museu Picasso de Barcelona at 69, with 794,906 admissions, the CaixaForum València at 84 ( 670,655) and the Picasso Málaga on 92 (641,216) and the Dalí Museum on 88, with 601,161 visits.
