2017, 50 million visitors to Italian museums. Colosseum, Pompeii and Uffizi the most visited

More than fifty million (50,103,996 to be exact) visitors visited state museums in Italy throughout the year 2017, thus guaranteeing the Ministry of Cultural Heritage receipts of 193,631,308 euros. These figures are up from all previous years: 38 million visitors and 126 million euros in collections in 2013, 40 and 135 in 2014, 43 and 155 in 2015, and 45 million visitors and 173 million euros in 2016. This is a 31 percent increase in visitors in four years, and a 53 percent increase in revenue for the public coffers. “Valuable resources,” comments Minister Dario Franceschini, “that contribute to the protection of our heritage and that regularly return to museum coffers through a system that rewards the best management and guarantees small entities with a national equalization fund.” Adds the minister, “In 2017, all museums recorded significant growth rates, but archaeological heritage was the most visited: about a third of visitors were concentrated among Pompeii, Paestum, the Colosseum, the Forums, Ostia Antica, Herculaneum, the Ancient Appian Way and the great national museums such as Naples, Taranto, Venice and Reggio Calabria and the Roman National Museum.”

The top 10 most visited museums include the Colosseum (7 million visitors), Pompeii Archaeological Park (3,382,240 visitors), and the Uffizi (2,219,122) on the podium. They are followed by the Accademia Gallery in Florence, Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome, the Venaria Reale, the Boboli Gardens, the Egyptian Museum in Turin, the Reggia di Caserta, and the Pitti Palace. On the podium of the regions with the most visitors were Lazio (23 million), Campania (8 million 782 thousand), and Tuscany (7 million). The highest growth rate was recorded in Liguria (+26% compared to 2016). Excellent margins were also achieved by Puglia (+19.5 percent) and Friuli Venezia Giulia (15.4 percent). Free Sundays brought a total of 3,549,201 visitors to Italian museums, with the peak marked in May, when there were 385,625 visitors. Lower attendance in December, with 215,015 visitors.

Image: Michelangelo’s David, Florence, Accademia Gallery. Ph. Credit Finestre Sull’Arte.

2017, 50 million visitors to Italian museums. Colosseum, Pompeii and Uffizi the most visited

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