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Auschwitz isn't even the most popular tourist destination in Poland
Polish museums are some of the most popular museums in the entire world.
>The Wawel Castle Museum in Kraków with 3.1 million annual visitors, the most popular in Poland, is the 17th most popular museum in the world, beating such museums as Galeria degli Uffizi in Florence, MoMA in New York or the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
>Royal Castle in Warsaw is the 31st with 2.2 million visitors in 2024.
>National Museum in Kraków, 38th, 2 million visitors
>National Museum in Warsaw, 47th, over 1.5 million visitors
However, Poland is also a leader in the modern interactive museum sector, with innovative interactive museums such as the Warsaw Rising Museum opened in 2004 and the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews opened in 2014, the World War II Museum in Gdańsk opened in 2017, and the upcoming Polish History Museum (foreground, picrel) and Polish Military Museum (background to the left, picrel), both opening within 8 months

The 10 most visited museums in the world in 2024:
>1. The Louvre
>2. Vatican Museums
>3.The British Museum
>4. Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
>5. Tate Modern, London
>6. Shanghai Museum East
>7. National Gallery, Washington, D.C.
>8. Korean National Museum, Seoul
>9. Musée d'Orsay, Paris
>10. National Anthropologic Museum, Mexico City

The top Polish museums beat every single museum in Germany in visitors count.
Only 3 museums in Russia (#11, #12, #22) compete with the 4 Polish museums (#17, #31, #38, #47), these are the russian museum in peterburg, hermitage, and tretyakov in moscow
>In 2023, over 1.67 million people visited the Auschwitz Memorial.