The Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB) in Belo Horizonte was the most visited museum in Latin America in 2023, according to a ranking by the British magazine The Art Newspaper.
With 1,474,825 visitors, the museum located in Praça da Liberdade, in the Center-South region of BH, is in 41st position among the 100 most visited in the world last year.
The Banco do Brasil Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro (CCBB-RJ) is in 46th position, with 1,323,034 visitors.
The two Brazilian museums are the only representatives from Latin America present in The Art Newspaper ranking. See the top 10 below:
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The numbers recorded at CCBB-BH in 2023, however, still represent a 3% drop compared to the total number of visitors registered in 2019 – the last year before the COVID-19 pandemic, which paralyzed the cultural arts scene.
In CCBB-RJ, the drop in 2023 compared to the pre-pandemic period is 49%.
See the ranking of the 10 most visited museums in the world in 2023:
- Louvre Museum (Paris, France): 8,860,000 visitors
- Vatican Museum (Vatican City): 6,764,858 visitors
- British Museum (London, England): 5,820,860 visitors
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA): 5,364,000 visitors
- Tate Modern (London, England): 4,742,038 visitors
- National Museum of Korea (Seoul, South Korea): 4,180,285 visitors
- Orsay Museum (Paris, France): 3,871,498 visitors
- National Gallery of Art (Washington, USA): 3,829,812 visitors
- Museo Nacional del Prado (Madrid, Spain): 3,337,550 visitors
- Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia): 3,273,753 visitors
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