In 2023, museum admissions were 57 million, 730 thousand, 502 visitors for an income of almost 314 million, with 22% more visitors and over 79 million more takings than in 2022. The positive trend is also confirmed in comparison with the pre-pandemic period dating back to 2019.

Standings

La standings of the most visited museums comes first Colosseum (more than 12 million hits), followed by Pantheon (more than 5 million), whose data however reflect both the period with free and paid tickets. On the last step of the podium, the Uffizi Galleries. Following, the archaeological park of Pompei, Galleria dell'Accademia from Florence, Sant'Angelo castel, Egyptian Museum of Turin, Palace of Caserta, Villa Adriana e Villa d'Este and Victorian e Palazzo Venezia.

Followed by Galleria Borghese 590.891 (+8,56%); Archaeological Park of Herculaneum 563.165 (+28,86%); National Archaeological Museum of Naples 533.141 (+25,54%); Archaeological parks of Paestum and Velia 506.853 (+29,62%); Cenacolo Vinciano 483.231 (+15,53%); Pinacoteca di Brera (464.871 (+17,07%); Palazzo Reale di Napoli 434.910 (+27,42%); La Venaria Reale 429.820 (+29,16%); Archaeological Museum of Venice (the data concerns the museum circuit which also includes civic museums) 387.683 (+4,64%); Castel Sant'Elmo 386.655 (+40,66%); Historical Museum and Park of Miramare Castle (the data does not include entrances to the free visit to the Park ) 343.162 (+34,96%); National Roman Museum 318.434 (+58,77%); Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica 314.511.

“Data that demonstrate how healthy and growing our national museum panorama is,” commented the general director of museums, Massimo Hosanna. The app experience was also positiveMuseums Italians', which today marks one year since its birth, whose system includes over 400 state institutions and which has received interest "also from Sicilia, which as an autonomous region is not part of the national museum system, but which wants to be part of the app,” added Osanna. To date, 130 of the 400 museums already use the direct ticketing management system offered by the platform.

“All Italian citizens should be proud of their heritage – commented the Minister of Culture. “They have increased visitors, and I hope they increase further; have increased revenue and the more resources we have, the more we can allocate them to increasing and increasingly expanding the offerings of our museums”.