This statistic shows the ranking of the 15 most visited national museums and galleries in France in 2017. It displays that the Louvre was the most visited museum in France that year, with more than eight million entries. It was followed by the Palace of Versailles and the Centre Georges Pompidou. The museums Louvre-Lens, Pompidou-Metz and Mucem in Marseille were the three only museums not located in the Ile-de-France region in this ranking.
Ranking of the fifteen most visited national museums and galleries in France in 2017
Characteristic
Total number of entries
Louvre
8,022,269
Palace of Versailles
7,714,389
Centre Georges Pompidou
3,370,872
Orsay Museum
3,177,842
Grand Palais National Galleries
1,389,217
Musée du quai Branly
982,860
Musée de l'Orangerie
938,281
Musée des Arts Décoratifs
869,797
Musée Rodin
595,684
Musée Picasso
538,707
Palace-Museum of Fontainebleau
461,192
Louvre-Lens
450,324
Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (Mucem, Marseille)
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Ministère de l’Économie et des Finances, & Direction Générale des Entreprises. (April 11, 2019). Ranking of the fifteen most visited national museums and galleries in France in 2017 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved June 28, 2022, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/995613/most-visited-national-museums-galleries-france/
Ministère de l’Économie et des Finances, und Direction Générale des Entreprises. "Ranking of the fifteen most visited national museums and galleries in France in 2017." Chart. April 11, 2019. Statista. Accessed June 28, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/995613/most-visited-national-museums-galleries-france/
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Ministère de l’Économie et des Finances & Direction Générale des Entreprises, Ranking of the fifteen most visited national museums and galleries in France in 2017 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/995613/most-visited-national-museums-galleries-france/ (last visited June 28, 2022)
