Art museums: COVID-19 impact on attendance 2022

Attendance at the Louvre in Paris, the most visited art museum worldwide, bounced back in 2022, following a sharp drop with the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Overall, the number of visitors at the renowned museum totaled over 7.7 million in 2022, denoting a decline of around 20 percent compared to pre-pandemic levels. Meanwhile, the Vatican Museums and British Museum followed on the ranking in 2022, welcoming roughly 5.1 million and 4.1 million visitors, respectively.

Impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the number of visitors at leading art museums worldwide from 2019 to 2022 (in millions)

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Release date

March 2023

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Worldwide

Survey time period

2019 to 2022

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museums are ranked according to the highest attendance in 2022

Supplementary notes

¹ 2021 and 2022 data for the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) excludes the Met Cloisters, while 2019 and 2020 figures include it.

Data prior to 2022 were previously published by the source or were calculated by Statista based on the annual percentage changes provided by the source.

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