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

The glass pyramid, general entrance to the museum © French Moments

2. Versailles: 6,746,000

Versailles Palace © French Moments

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

Centre Pompidou, Paris © French Moments

4. Musée d’Orsay, Paris: 3,144,000

Musée d’Orsay © French Moments

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

Quai Branly from above © French Moments

6. Musée de l’Armée, Paris: 1,434,000

The Dome church of Les Invalides seen from avenue de Tourville © French Moments

7. Musée Carnavalet, Paris: 1,108,000

The Carnavalet Mansion, 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

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

The central dome of the Petit-Palais © French Moments

13. Centre Pompidou, Metz: 552,000

Pompidou Centre in Metz © French Moments

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