Paris leads the world with 297 museums, followed by Moscow with 261. The Louvre, Paris’s most visited museum, drew 8.7m visitors in 2024, 66% of them first-timers. In contrast, only about 10% of South African adults have ever visited a museum (MAPS, Eighty20 Data Portal).

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