Washington, D.C. is home to several of the
country's and
world's most visited museums. In 2022, the
National Museum of Natural History and the
National Gallery of Art were the two most visited museums in the country. Overall, Washington had eight of the 28 most visited museums in the U.S. in 2022. The same year, the National Museum of Natural History was the fifth-most-visited museum in the world and the National Gallery of Art was the eleventh.