What are the 10 French cities ranked by museums?

In order: Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Nice, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Aix-en-Provence, Mulhouse, Rouen and Dijon.

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

Paris (65 museums), Marseille (17 museums), Lyon (17 museums), Nice (14 museums) and Strasbourg (10 museums).

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

Marseille, at 17 museums, just behind Paris (65 museums).

Is Paris really the French city ranked first on museums?

Yes, at 65 museums, ahead of Marseille (17 museums) and Lyon (17 museums).

In which département is Paris?

Paris is in département 75, in the Île-de-France region.

What is the difference between Paris and Marseille?

Paris is at 65 museums, Marseille at 17 museums. The table gives the same figure for all 50 places, so any two of them can be compared the same way.

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: Paris leads with 65 museums.

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: Paris (65 museums), Marseille (17 museums), Lyon (17 museums), Nice (14 museums), Strasbourg (10 museums), Toulouse (9 museums), Aix-en-Provence (9 museums), Mulhouse (9 museums), Rouen (8 museums), Dijon (7 museums).

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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Paris leads on museums, with 65 museums, then Marseille (17 museums) and Lyon (17 museums).

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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. 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	75 Paris	65	2,103,778	Île-de-France
2	13 Marseille	17	886,040	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
3	69 Lyon	17	519,127	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
4	06 Nice	14	357,737	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
5	67 Strasbourg	10	293,771	Grand Est
6	31 Toulouse	9	514,819	Occitanie
7	13 Aix-en-Provence	9	149,695	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
8	68 Mulhouse	9	104,978	Grand Est
9	76 Rouen	8	117,662	Normandie
10	21 Dijon	7	161,830	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
11	30 Nîmes	7	151,839	Occitanie
12	10 Troyes	7	62,088	Grand Est
13	33 Bordeaux	6	267,991	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
14	38 Grenoble	6	156,140	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
15	37 Tours	6	139,259	Centre-Val de Loire
16	66 Perpignan	6	121,616	Occitanie
17	25 Besançon	6	118,489	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
18	86 Poitiers	6	89,916	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
19	34 Montpellier	5	310,240	Occitanie
20	59 Lille	5	238,246	Hauts-de-France
21	76 Le Havre	5	166,687	Normandie
22	49 Angers	5	159,022	Pays de la Loire
23	80 Amiens	5	136,449	Hauts-de-France
24	57 Metz	5	122,572	Grand Est
25	14 Caen	5	109,400	Normandie
26	64 Pau	5	80,441	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
27	17 La Rochelle	5	79,851	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
28	2A Ajaccio	5	76,320	Corse
29	972 Fort-de-France	5	75,506	Martinique
30	18 Bourges	5	64,186	Centre-Val de Loire
31	73 Chambéry	5	59,964	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
32	06 Grasse	5	50,970	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
33	41 Blois	5	47,219	Centre-Val de Loire
34	16 Angoulême	5	41,908	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
35	83 Draguignan	5	40,826	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
36	44 Nantes	4	327,734	Pays de la Loire
37	51 Reims	4	177,674	Grand Est
38	42 Saint-Étienne	4	173,136	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
39	92 Boulogne-Billancourt	4	119,019	Île-de-France
40	45 Orléans	4	116,357	Centre-Val de Loire
41	54 Nancy	4	103,671	Grand Est
42	92 Rueil-Malmaison	4	82,874	Île-de-France
43	50 Cherbourg-en-Cotentin	4	78,258	Normandie
44	973 Cayenne	4	62,675	Guyane
45	13 Arles	4	51,811	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
46	78 Saint-Germain-en-Laye	4	45,931	Île-de-France
47	08 Charleville-Mézières	4	45,560	Grand Est
48	51 Châlons-en-Champagne	4	42,971	Grand Est
49	60 Compiègne	4	40,761	Hauts-de-France
50	89 Auxerre	4	35,097	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

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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.

12 questions about this ranking

What are the 10 French cities ranked by museums?: In order: Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Nice, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Aix-en-Provence, Mulhouse, Rouen and Dijon.
What is the top 5 of French cities ranked by museums?: Paris (65 museums), Marseille (17 museums), Lyon (17 museums), Nice (14 museums) and Strasbourg (10 museums).
Which city is 2nd in the ranking of French cities ranked by museums?: Marseille, at 17 museums, just behind Paris (65 museums).
Is Paris really the French city ranked first on museums?: Yes, at 65 museums, ahead of Marseille (17 museums) and Lyon (17 museums).
In which département is Paris?: Paris is in département 75, in the Île-de-France region.
What is the difference between Paris and Marseille?: Paris is at 65 museums, Marseille at 17 museums. The table gives the same figure for all 50 places, so any two of them can be compared the same way.
Which city is 10th in the ranking of French cities ranked by museums?: Dijon, at 7 museums.
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: Paris leads with 65 museums.
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: Paris (65 museums), Marseille (17 museums), Lyon (17 museums), Nice (14 museums), Strasbourg (10 museums), Toulouse (9 museums), Aix-en-Provence (9 museums), Mulhouse (9 museums), Rouen (8 museums), Dijon (7 museums).
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 Museums: the bottom 50 French cities and Cinema screens: the top 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.