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Top 100 Museums in Japan

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest museums in Japan, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 344 museums tracked in Japan, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Museum of Modern Art, Mori Art Museum and Biltmore Estate lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 10M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 363k, and the largest, Museum of Modern Art, reaches around 4.4M people in Japan. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Japan who actively engage with each museum, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Japan and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in Japan who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in Japan. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in Japan, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in Japan. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 Musée d'Orsay 291k 33.4 61.5% Museum
27 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf 281k 47.4 88.8% Museum
28 Centre Georges Pompidou 273k 36.9 65.3% Museum
29 Science museum 246k 32.7 70.7% Museum
30 Museum of Contemporary Art (Basel) 237k 35.6 65.4% Museum
31 Children's museum 224k 36.6 82.8% Museum
32 American Museum of Natural History 223k 34.9 58.6% Museum
33 Royal Academy of Arts 222k 33.0 61.3% Museum
34 Museo del Prado 221k 31.0 69.5% Museum
35 Brooklyn Museum 219k 35.1 62.1% Museum
36 Chinese surname 212k 21.1 46.8% Museum
37 TsUM (Moscow) 210k 38.5 53.6% Museum
38 Ghibli Museum 192k 32.1 75.3% Museum
39 National Palace Museum 191k 40.1 60.6% Museum
40 White Cube 188k 36.3 56.8% Museum
41 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 187k 38.0 62.7% Museum
42 San Diego Natural History Museum 184k 32.2 66.7% Museum
43 Tate Britain 180k 36.6 64.6% Museum
44 museo reina sofía 174k 30.0 57.6% Museum
45 Guggenheim Museum Bilbao 170k 32.5 62.8% Museum
46 Kunsthistorisches Museum 167k 34.4 63.0% Museum
47 Louisiana Museum of Modern Art 166k 37.0 81.1% Museum
48 Canadian Museum of History 163k 34.0 65.6% Museum
49 Hermitage Museum 158k 36.7 78.1% Museum
50 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 155k 35.3 59.3% Museum

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 100 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Japan 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 Japan?

Museum of Modern Art currently leads with an estimated audience of 4.4M people in Japan.

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