Top 50 Museums in Brazil
This curated ranking covers the 50 largest museums in Brazil, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 286 museums tracked in Brazil, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. São Paulo Museum of Art, Museum and Art museum lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 11,472,568 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 500,025, and the largest, São Paulo Museum of Art, reaches around 4,134,285 people in Brazil. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Brazil who actively engage with each museum, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Brazil and are refreshed weekly.
Ranking
| Rank | Name | Audience size | Country share | Subtype | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  São Paulo Museum of Art |
4,134,285 | 71.2% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 2 |  Museum |
4,088,181 | 2.1% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 3 |  Art museum |
3,250,102 | 2.0% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 4 |  Maloka Museum |
2,677,918 | 95.5% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 5 |  Florence Cathedral |
1,388,481 | 29.1% | Museum | Travel & Leisure |
| 6 |  Museum of Modern Art |
971,173 | 2.5% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 7 |  British Museum |
906,672 | 3.8% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 8 |  Royal Academy of Arts |
804,906 | 13.4% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 9 |  Metropolitan Museum of Art |
525,940 | 2.1% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 10 |  Saatchi Gallery |
472,473 | 2.0% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 11 |  Brooklyn Museum |
409,594 | 5.0% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 12 |  Museo del Prado |
389,538 | 11.4% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 13 |  São Paulo Museum of Modern Art |
296,460 | 27.2% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 14 |  Tate Modern |
279,481 | 1.6% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 15 |  CCBB Rio de Janeiro |
241,597 | 31.6% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 16 |  Van Gogh Museum |
231,493 | 3.3% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 17 | CCBB Brasília |
222,602 | 28.2% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 18 |  MAXXI |
218,662 | 34.4% | Museum | Travel & Leisure |
| 19 |  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum |
217,343 | 3.2% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 20 |  Gagosian Gallery |
213,825 | 2.2% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 21 |  Natural History Museum, London |
213,079 | 5.1% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 22 |  Frida Kahlo Museum |
193,432 | 15.8% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 23 |  Niterói Contemporary Art Museum |
169,167 | 29.1% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 24 |  Victoria and Albert Museum |
164,194 | 1.4% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 25 |  Science Museum, London |
144,491 | 2.8% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 26 |  Vatican Museums |
126,218 | 5.7% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 27 |  Saatchi Art |
125,743 | 3.2% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 28 |  São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound |
124,718 | 95.4% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 29 |  Tate |
117,420 | 1.6% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 30 |  Frieze Art Fair |
112,369 | 1.4% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 31 |  Russian Museum |
106,180 | 29.1% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 32 |  Guggenheim Museum Bilbao |
102,672 | 4.2% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 33 |  Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
100,502 | 2.0% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 34 |  Pérez Art Museum Miami |
100,184 | 4.3% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 35 |  Whitney Museum of American Art |
91,143 | 1.7% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 36 |  National Gallery of Art |
87,452 | 1.8% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 37 |  American Museum of Natural History |
86,999 | 2.5% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 38 | MoMA PS1 |
78,483 | 6.0% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 39 |  Field Museum of Natural History |
75,228 | 5.7% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 40 |  National Gallery |
72,550 | 1.1% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 41 |  Children's museum |
70,454 | 1.1% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 42 |  Centre Georges Pompidou |
69,762 | 2.1% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 43 |  Chicago History Museum |
68,353 | 7.5% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 44 |  Charles M. Schulz Museum |
67,794 | 22.6% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 45 |  San Diego Natural History Museum |
67,536 | 5.7% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 46 |  Canadian Museum of History |
66,989 | 6.1% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 47 |  Kunsthistorisches Museum |
66,195 | 4.1% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 48 | The Gettysburg Museum Of History |
64,177 | 8.4% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 49 |  Natural history museum |
63,788 | 1.5% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
| 50 |  National Museum of History |
63,275 | 9.1% | Museum | Arts & Culture |
Frequently asked questions
How is this Top 50 list compiled?
Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Brazil and ranks each museum by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.
How often is the list updated?
The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.
What is the largest museum in Brazil?
São Paulo Museum of Art currently leads with an estimated audience of 4,134,285 people in Brazil.
Methodology
Audience sizes are estimated from anonymized search-behavior signals across Brazil. Lists below 5 entries are not published. See methodology for full details.