Seven Spanish museums are among the 100 most visited museums
He National Prado Museum It’s found between the 10 most popular museums in the world last year 2023, according to The Art Newspaper, which also states that pre-pandemic visitor levels have “mostly” recovered.
When five years have passed in 2019, The Art Newspaper assures that The main museums have “very similar numbers” to those of the first year before the pandemic of Covid-19 and, in the case of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam; the Getty Villa Museum in Los Angeles and the National Museum of Scotland, the visitors are exactly the same.
The New York newspaper specifies that other museums, despite not exceeding or equaling those figures, have also recovered “normal” levels as there is a difference of less than 10 percent (10%) compared to 2019 visitors. This is the case of the Vatican Museums (-2%); The Broad in Los Angeles (-2%); Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (United States) (-3%); the National Prado Museum (-5%); the National Gallery of Art in Washington (-6%); the British Museum in London (-7%); and the Louvre, in Paris (-8%).
Even so, there is a group of museums that still does not attract visitors at these levels and The Art Newspaper considers that the explanation is “obvious”, since it is the Kremlin Museums in Moscow (-67%) or the ten most important in the United Kingdom (-13%), due to Brexit.
Total, The 100 most visited museums in the world, in 2023 they will receive 175 million visitors, which represent 141 million more than the previous year, but are still below the 230 million visitors registered in 2019.
Thus, the list is headed by Louvre Museum (8,860,000 visitors); followed by the Vatican Museums (6,764,858 visitors); he British Museum, London (5,820,860 visitors); he Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (5,364,000 visitors); he Tate Modern in London (4,742,038 visitors); he National Museum of Korea in Seoul (4,180,285 visitors); he Orsay’s Museum (3,871,498 visitors); the National Art Galleries in Washington (3,829,812 visitors); he Prado Museum (3,337,550 visitors); and, in tenth place, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg (3,273,753 visitors).
Among the 100 most visited are, in addition to the Prado, other Spanish museums such as the Reina Sofía in position 40 (1,514,854 visitors); the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao in 45th place (1,324,221 visitors); he Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in 67th place (1,017,684 visitors); he Picasso Museum of Malaga in 87th place (779,279 visitors); the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Gerona, which is ranked number 92 (726,199 visitors); and lastly, at 100, the CaixaForum museum in Madrid (655,422 visitors).