Louvre or Louvre Museum

The Louvre or Louvre Museum is one of the world's largest museums and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, France, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1stdistrict . Nearly 35,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square metres (652,300 square feet). With more than 9.7 million visitors each year, the Louvre is the world's most visited museum.

National Gallery

TheNational Gallery is an art museum on Trafalgar Square in London. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900.The Gallery is an exempt charity, and a non-departmental public body of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Its collection belongs to the public of the United Kingdom and entry to the main collection is free of charge. It is the fifth most visited art museum in the world, after the Musée du Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum and Tate Modern^.

Most Visited art Museums in The World

Rank	Museum	City	Country	Visitor count
1	Louvre	Paris	France	9,720,260
2	British Museum	London	United Kingdom	6,701,036
3	Metropolitan Museum of Art	New York City	United States	6,115,881
4	Vatican Museums	Vatican City (Rome)	Vatican City	5,459,000
5	Tate Modern	London	United Kingdom	5,304,710
6	National Gallery	London	United Kingdom	5,163,902
7	National Palace Museum	Taipei	Taiwan	4,360,815
8	National Gallery of Art	Washington, D.C.	United States	4,200,000
9	Centre Pompidou	Paris	France	3,800,000
10	Musée D'Orsay	Paris	France	3,600,000
11	Victoria & Albert Museum	London	United Kingdom	3,231,700
12	National Museum of Korea	Seoul	South Korea	3,128,550
13	State Hermitage Museum	St. Petersburg	Russia	2,882,385
14	Museum of Modern Art	New York City	United States	2,805,659
15	National Folk Museum of Korea	Seoul	South Korea	2,640,264
16	Reina Sofía	Madrid	Spain	2,565,000
17	Rijksmuseum [5]	Amsterdam	Netherlands	2,300,000
18	Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	2,235,354
19	National Portrait Gallery	London	United Kingdom	2,096,858
20	Shanghai Museum	Shanghai	China	1,944,820
21	National Museum of Scotland	Edinburgh	United Kingdom	1,893,521
22	Galleria degli Uffizi	Florence	Italy	1,769,217
23	Moscow Kremlin	Moscow	Russia	1,735,600
24	National Galleries of Scotland[a]	Edinburgh	United Kingdom	1,604,105
25	J. Paul Getty Museum[b]	Los Angeles	United States	1,590,608
26	National Gallery of Victoria[c]	Melbourne	Australia	1,571,333
27	Tate Britain	London	United Kingdom	1,536,833
28	Grand Palais	Paris	France	1,518,927
29	Tokyo National Museum	Tokyo	Japan	1,504,286
30	State Tretyakov Gallery	Moscow	Russia	1,491,575
31	Van Gogh Museum	Amsterdam	Netherlands	1,486,281
32	Queensland Art Gallery/GoMA[d]	Brisbane	Australia	1,480,944
33	FAMSF[e]	San Francisco	United States	1,448,176
34	Art Institute of Chicago	Chicago	United States	1,438,158
35	Saatchi Gallery	London	United Kingdom	1,413,605
36	Pergamonmuseum	Berlin	Germany	1,410,000
37	Gyeongju National Museum	Gyeongju	South Korea	1,378,074
38	Palazzo Ducale	Venice	Italy	1,323,508
39	Musée du quai Branly	Paris	France	1,310,148
40	Institut Valencià d'Art Modern	Valencia	Spain	1,296,284
41	National Museum of Contemporary Art	Seoul	South Korea	1,284,038
42	Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza	Madrid	Spain	1,255,281
43	SAAM/Renwick	Washington, D.C.	United States	1,231,983
44	Galleria dell'Accademia	Florence	Italy	1,225,254
45	Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil	Brasília	Brazil	1,215,763
46	Royal Academy of Arts	London	United Kingdom	1,202,801
47	Art Gallery of New South Wales	Sydney	Australia	1,195,176
48	Parco del Castello di Miramare	Trieste	Italy	1,189,661
49	Guggenheim Museum	New York City	United States	1,188,839
50	LACMA	Los Angeles	United States	1,172,841
51	Palazzo Reale	Milan	Italy	1,167,744
52	Russian Museum	St. Petersburg	Russia	1,144,164
53	Upper and Lower Belvedere	Vienna	Austria	1,108,658
54	Museu Picasso	Barcelona	Spain	1,087,765
55	National Art Museum of China	Beijing	China	1,080,000
56	National Portrait Gallery	Washington, D.C.	United States	1,078,774
57	Mori Art Museum	Tokyo	Japan	1,066,088
58	Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum	Glasgow	United Kingdom	1,037,594
59	Royal Ontario Museum	Toronto	Canada	1,025,920
60	Acropolis Museum	Athens	Greece	1,020,462
61	Guggenheim	Bilbao	Spain	1,014,104
62	Riverside Museum	Glasgow	United Kingdom	1,008,092
63	Museum of Fine Arts	Boston	United States	998,214
64	The National Art Center, Tokyo	Tokyo	Japan	991,182
65	CaixaForum Barcelona	Barcelona	Spain	971,101
66	Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil	São Paulo	Brazil	971,005
67	National Museum of Western Art	Tokyo	Japan	940,433
68	Palazzo Strozzi	Florence	Italy	934,563
69	Parco di Capodimonte	Naples	Italy	923,706
70	Australian Centre for the Moving Image	Melbourne	Australia	922,213
71	Castel Sant'Angelo	Rome	Italy	905,787
72	CaixaForum Madrid	Madrid	Spain	903,922
73	Freer and Sackler Galleries	Washington, D.C.	United States	869,743
74	Ashmolean Museum	Oxford	United Kingdom	846,180
75	Museum of Contemporary Art Australia	Sydney	Australia	843,543
76	Philadelphia Museum of Art	Philadelphia	United States	835,209
77	Museo Soumaya	Mexico City	Mexico	833,196
78	Israel Museum	Jerusalem	Israel	827,254
79	Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya	Barcelona	Spain	806,052
80	Musée de l’Orangerie	Paris	France	800,000
81	Art Gallery of Ontario	Toronto	Canada	796,841
82	Melbourne Museum	Melbourne	Australia	783,058
83	Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery	Birmingham	United Kingdom	764,341
84	National Gallery of Australia	Canberra	Australia	755,382
85	Hirshhorn Museum	Washington, D.C.	United States	753,258
86	Tel Aviv Museum of Art	Tel Aviv	Israel	750,000
87	Palazzo Pitti	Florence	Italy	742,184
88	Museum of Fine Arts	Houston	United States	737,480
89	MACBA	Barcelona	Spain	710,466
90	Kunsthistorisches Museum	Vienna	Austria	703,588
91	Neues Museum	Berlin	Germany	701,000
92	Ullens Center for Contemporary Art	Beijing	China	700,000
93	Museo centrale del Risorgimento	Rome	Italy	698,850
94	Reggia di Venaria Reale	Venaria	Italy	698,484
95	Complesso del Vittoriano	Rome	Italy	689,850
96	National Portrait Gallery	Canberra	Australia	667,383
97	Istanbul Modern	Istanbul	Turkey	665,776
98	National Gallery of Ireland	Dublin	Ireland	660,486
99	Musée des Arts Décoratifs	Paris	France	655,000
100	Gwangju National Museum	Gwangju	South Korea	645,061