Top 50 Museums in United Kingdom

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest museums in United Kingdom, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 323 museums tracked in United Kingdom, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Museum, Art museum and British Museum lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 21,484,286 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 1,181,704, and the largest, Museum, reaches around 9,764,345 people in United Kingdom. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in United Kingdom who actively engage with each museum, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across United Kingdom and are refreshed weekly.

Ranking

Rank	Name	Audience size	Country share	Subtype	Category
1	Museum	9,764,345	5.2%	Museum	Arts & Culture
2	Art museum	8,309,792	5.2%	Museum	Arts & Culture
3	British Museum	3,410,149	14.1%	Museum	Arts & Culture
4	Victoria and Albert Museum	3,287,455	28.8%	Museum	Arts & Culture
5	Tate Modern	2,824,968	16.7%	Museum	Arts & Culture
6	National Museum of Scotland	2,789,846	90.2%	Museum	Arts & Culture
7	Saatchi Gallery	2,386,745	10.2%	Museum	Arts & Culture
8	National Gallery	2,174,402	32.3%	Museum	Arts & Culture
9	Museum of Modern Art	2,149,829	5.6%	Museum	Arts & Culture
10	Royal Academy of Arts	1,823,033	30.5%	Museum	Arts & Culture
11	Tate	1,810,376	24.8%	Museum	Arts & Culture
12	Tate Britain	1,590,381	41.5%	Museum	Arts & Culture
13	Metropolitan Museum of Art	1,297,910	5.3%	Museum	Arts & Culture
14	Rijksmuseum	1,244,768	17.4%	Museum	Arts & Culture
15	Natural History Museum, London	1,090,891	26.0%	Museum	Arts & Culture
16	Natural history museum	956,360	23.1%	Museum	Arts & Culture
17	Gagosian Gallery	907,063	9.2%	Museum	Arts & Culture
18	Frieze Art Fair	709,716	8.7%	Museum	Arts & Culture
19	Science Museum, London	640,482	12.6%	Museum	Arts & Culture
20	Science museum	639,263	21.2%	Museum	Arts & Culture
21	Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum	584,678	8.5%	Museum	Arts & Culture
22	National Gallery of Art	525,145	10.5%	Museum	Arts & Culture
23	Museum of London	510,370	71.7%	Museum	Arts & Culture
24	Tate Liverpool	475,457	68.2%	Museum	Arts & Culture
25	Aviation museum	447,108	22.7%	Museum	Arts & Culture
26	Van Gogh Museum	423,671	6.0%	Museum	Arts & Culture
27	National Army Museum (New Zealand)	398,400	89.1%	Museum	Arts & Culture
28	Whitechapel Gallery	385,506	57.0%	Museum	Arts & Culture
29	Los Angeles County Museum of Art	331,489	6.5%	Museum	Arts & Culture
30	White Cube	326,429	16.9%	Museum	Arts & Culture
31	Wellcome Collection	304,339	71.7%	Museum	Travel & Leisure
32	Institute of Contemporary Arts	290,446	8.4%	Museum	Arts & Culture
33	Hermitage Museum	289,708	11.9%	Museum	Arts & Culture
34	Pitt Rivers Museum	286,175	89.8%	Museum	Arts & Culture
35	Whitney Museum of American Art	285,203	5.4%	Museum	Arts & Culture
36	Serpentine Galleries	272,771	25.2%	Museum	Arts & Culture
37	Discovery Museum	271,092	51.7%	Museum	Arts & Culture
38	Saatchi Art	266,059	6.8%	Museum	Arts & Culture
39	Brooklyn Museum	256,994	3.1%	Museum	Arts & Culture
40	Children's museum	256,069	4.0%	Museum	Arts & Culture
41	Coventry Transport Museum	239,892	98.1%	Museum	Arts & Culture
42	Affordable Art Fair	234,083	23.1%	Museum	Arts & Culture
43	Black Country Living Museum	233,857	83.8%	Museum	Arts & Culture
44	London Transport Museum	227,749	54.1%	Museum	Arts & Culture
45	Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art	214,684	98.1%	Museum	Arts & Culture
46	Centre Georges Pompidou	202,888	6.1%	Museum	Arts & Culture
47	Imperial War Museum	194,649	34.6%	Museum	Arts & Culture
48	Royal Air Force Museum London	191,893	78.2%	Museum	Arts & Culture
49	The Tank Museum	181,155	65.4%	Museum	Arts & Culture
50	Beamish Museum	169,497	83.3%	Museum	Arts & Culture