What are the 10 French cities ranked by museums?

In order: Villeurbanne, Annecy, Montreuil, Saint-Paul, Argenteuil, Tourcoing, Roubaix, Vitry-sur-Seine, Asnières-sur-Seine and Créteil.

What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by museums?

Villeurbanne (1 museum), Annecy (1 museum), Montreuil (1 museum), Saint-Paul (1 museum) and Argenteuil (1 museum).

Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by museums?

Annecy, at 1 museum, just behind Villeurbanne (1 museum).

In which département is Villeurbanne?

Villeurbanne is in département 69, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

How many French cities does this ranking compare?

512, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.

What are the French cities ranked by museums in 2026?

This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Villeurbanne leads with 1 museum.

Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by museums?

Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 512, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.

In order: Villeurbanne (1 museum), Annecy (1 museum), Montreuil (1 museum), Saint-Paul (1 museum), Argenteuil (1 museum), Tourcoing (1 museum), Roubaix (1 museum), Vitry-sur-Seine (1 museum), Asnières-sur-Seine (1 museum), Créteil (1 museum).

Where does this figure come from?

Straight from Ministère de la Culture / DEPS, base des lieux et équipements culturels (Basilic), joined to each commune by its INSEE code and never retyped by hand. A commune the source does not cover is left out of the table rather than shown as a zero: an absence and a measured zero are different facts, and only one of them is safe to rank.

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Villeurbanne comes last on museums, with 1 museum, ahead of Annecy (1 museum) and Montreuil (1 museum).

Museums, 491 cities shown. The coloured surface adds up museums over 34,963 communes, 100.0% of the country's population, within about 30 km of each point. Every commune with a published value counts, not only the towns in the table. This ranking rewards the smallest total, so the darkest areas are the emptiest ones. 21 ranked overseas cities are not plotted: they fall outside this map's frame. Projection: longitude compressed by cos(46.3°N), so east-west and north-south distances stay comparable. Source: Ministère de la Culture / DEPS, base des lieux et équipements culturels (Basilic) · 2026-02-18.

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Top 50 of 512 cities
Rank	City	Museums	Population	Region
1	69 Villeurbanne	1	163,684	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
2	74 Annecy	1	132,117	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
3	93 Montreuil	1	111,934	Île-de-France
4	974 Saint-Paul	1	108,088	La Réunion
5	95 Argenteuil	1	106,130	Île-de-France
6	59 Tourcoing	1	98,772	Hauts-de-France
7	59 Roubaix	1	98,286	Hauts-de-France
8	94 Vitry-sur-Seine	1	93,963	Île-de-France
9	92 Asnières-sur-Seine	1	93,941	Île-de-France
10	94 Créteil	1	93,397	Île-de-France
11	93 Aulnay-sous-Bois	1	87,599	Île-de-France
12	974 Le Tampon	1	82,579	La Réunion
13	33 Mérignac	1	78,090	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
14	94 Champigny-sur-Marne	1	78,072	Île-de-France
15	94 Saint-Maur-des-Fossés	1	76,572	Île-de-France
16	44 Saint-Nazaire	1	74,568	Pays de la Loire
17	93 Noisy-le-Grand	1	72,978	Île-de-France
18	93 Drancy	1	72,390	Île-de-France
19	95 Cergy	1	70,906	Île-de-France
20	92 Levallois-Perret	1	68,092	Île-de-France
21	94 Ivry-sur-Seine	1	65,064	Île-de-France
22	26 Valence	1	64,458	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
23	92 Clichy	1	64,410	Île-de-France
24	83 La Seyne-sur-Mer	1	63,732	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
25	59 Villeneuve-d'Ascq	1	62,868	Hauts-de-France
26	93 Pantin	1	61,929	Île-de-France
27	94 Villejuif	1	60,183	Île-de-France
28	92 Clamart	1	58,576	Île-de-France
29	94 Maisons-Alfort	1	56,799	Île-de-France
30	974 Saint-Louis (974)	1	54,941	La Réunion
31	85 La Roche-sur-Yon	1	54,849	Pays de la Loire
32	973 Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni	1	54,429	Guyane
33	93 Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine	1	53,615	Île-de-France
34	69 Vaulx-en-Velin	1	53,069	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
35	93 Épinay-sur-Seine	1	52,833	Île-de-France
36	93 Sevran	1	52,535	Île-de-France
37	81 Albi	1	51,290	Occitanie
38	971 Les Abymes	1	51,055	Guadeloupe
39	93 Bondy	1	50,595	Île-de-France
40	85 Les Sables-d'Olonne	1	49,603	Pays de la Loire
41	92 Suresnes	1	48,956	Île-de-France
42	13 Martigues	1	48,298	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
43	13 Aubagne	1	47,529	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
44	93 Livry-Gargan	1	47,228	Île-de-France
45	93 La Courneuve	1	47,167	Île-de-France
46	19 Brive-la-Gaillarde	1	47,095	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
47	93 Noisy-le-Sec	1	45,510	Île-de-France
48	34 Sète	1	45,337	Occitanie
49	22 Saint-Brieuc	1	44,364	Bretagne
50	92 Puteaux	1	44,002	Île-de-France

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Scope, method and sources

Scope: France, metropolitan and overseas, Corsica and the DROM included. This dataset holds every commune of 10,000 inhabitants or more, plus smaller communes famous enough to be household names, 1,131 in all. It is not the full list of 35,000 French communes, so a village can sit outside a ranking whose extreme it would otherwise hold.

Method and sources: populations are the INSEE legal populations, boundaries and coordinates come from the IGN commune registry, both served by geo.api.gouv.fr. Density is the population divided by the commune's area; distances are measured as the crow flies from the commune's centre. Data read on August 28, 2026.

11 questions about this ranking

What are the 10 French cities ranked by museums?: In order: Villeurbanne, Annecy, Montreuil, Saint-Paul, Argenteuil, Tourcoing, Roubaix, Vitry-sur-Seine, Asnières-sur-Seine and Créteil.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by museums?: Villeurbanne (1 museum), Annecy (1 museum), Montreuil (1 museum), Saint-Paul (1 museum) and Argenteuil (1 museum).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by museums?: Annecy, at 1 museum, just behind Villeurbanne (1 museum).
Is Villeurbanne really the French city ranked last on museums?: Yes, at 1 museum, ahead of Annecy (1 museum) and Montreuil (1 museum).
In which département is Villeurbanne?: Villeurbanne is in département 69, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
Which city is 10th in the ranking of French cities ranked by museums?: Créteil, at 1 museum.
How many French cities does this ranking compare?: 512, with the top 50 listed in full in the table below.
What are the French cities ranked by museums in 2026?: This ranking uses the most recent official figures published as of 2026: Villeurbanne leads with 1 museum.
Is there a complete ranking of French cities ranked by museums?: Yes, the table below: the top 50 of 512, each with its département and its region, and the exact method and scope stated underneath it.
What are the top 10?: In order: Villeurbanne (1 museum), Annecy (1 museum), Montreuil (1 museum), Saint-Paul (1 museum), Argenteuil (1 museum), Tourcoing (1 museum), Roubaix (1 museum), Vitry-sur-Seine (1 museum), Asnières-sur-Seine (1 museum), Créteil (1 museum).
Where does this figure come from?: Straight from Ministère de la Culture / DEPS, base des lieux et équipements culturels (Basilic), joined to each commune by its INSEE code and never retyped by hand. A commune the source does not cover is left out of the table rather than shown as a zero: an absence and a measured zero are different facts, and only one of them is safe to rank.

The table below ranks the top 50 of the 512 cities in the dataset, each with its département, its region and the figure it is ranked on (museums), so you can see not just the order but how far apart the places are. The numbers are official public data: INSEE legal populations and the IGN commune registry, with the exact method and the exact scope stated under the table rather than left to be guessed at.

The same data answers neighbouring questions too: see Cinema screens: the top 50 French cities and Cinema screens: the bottom 50 French cities, or all rankings for the full list. All of it comes from Le Bon Rang, a free daily game that gives you five French cities and one of these statistics and asks you for the order.