Top 10 Most Visited Museums in France

Here is the Top 10 list of the most visited museums in France, which are all located in Paris and Versailles. The first museum outside the Paris region – the Pompidou Centre in Metz – ranks number 13.

The most visited Museums in France

France is home to 1,218 museums, 7 of them welcomed more than 1 million visitors in 2011. Only 63 museums in France welcomed between 100,000 and 1 million visitors. France’s first museum – the Louvre – is also the world’s largest and most visited museum. The list below includes the visitor count.

1. Musée du Louvre, Paris: 8,711,000

Cour Napoléon and the Glass Pyramid, the Louvre Palace © French Moments

2. Versailles: 6,746,000

Hall of Mirrors in Versailles © French Moments

3. Musée national d’Art moderne (Centre Pompidou), Paris: 3,726,000

The pipes seen from rue Beaubourg © French Moments

4. Musée d’Orsay, Paris: 3,144,000

The Orsay Museum in Paris, a former railway station © French Moments

5. Musée du Quai Branly, Paris: 1,457,000

Quai Branly Museum from above © French Moments

6. Musée de l’Armée, Paris: 1,434,000

Hôtel des Invalides © French Moments

7. Musée Carnavalet, Paris: 1,108,000

Hôtel Carnavalet, Marais (Paris) © French Moments

8. Grande Galerie de l’Évolution, Paris: 738,000

Grande Galerie de l’Evolution, Paris © French Moments

9. Musée national Auguste-Rodin, Paris: 735,000

Musée Rodin © Pierre Lannes – licence [CC BY-SA 2.0] from Wikimedia Commons

10. Musée national de l’Orangerie, Paris: 697,000

The Nymphéas by Claude Monet at the Orangerie, Paris © French Moments

And the list goes on…

11. Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris: 602,000

Palais de Toyko from above © French Moments

12. Petit Palais, Musée des beaux-arts de la ville de Paris: 561,000

Petit-Palais, Paris © French Moments

13. Centre Pompidou, Metz: 552,000

Metz Pompidou © French Moments

Source: Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, figures based on statistics from 2011