How many Art Museums have you visited?
Most Popular Art Museums in the World
The Art Newspaper has released their annual list of the most popular art museums in the world, with the Louvre in Paris coming in first place with an estimated 8,300,000 visitors.
The most popular exhibition was at the Tokyo National Museum in Japan which attracted more than 10,000 people each day. It was more of a single painting than an exhibition, which makes the figure even more remarkable. Leonardo da Vinci’s painting “Annunciation” was loaned by the Uffizi gallery in Florence.
Here’s the top 20 most popular art museums in the world compiled by Art Newspaper. The list below includes the number of visitors, name of the museum, and the city that the museum is located in.
8,300,000 – Louvre Paris
5,509,425 – Centre Pompidou Paris
5,191,840 – Tate Modern London
4,837,878 – British Museum London
4,547,353 – Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
4,518,413 – National Gallery of Art Washington
4,310,083 – Vatican Museums Vatican City
4,159,485 – National Gallery London
3,166,509 – Musée d’Orsay Paris
2,652,924 – Museo Nacional del Prado Madrid
2,650,551 – National Palace Museum Taipei
2,435,300 – Victoria and Albert Museum London
2,395,075 – State Hermitage Museum St Petersburg
2,232,475 – Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Glasgow
2,219,554 – Museum of Modern Art New York
2,133,149 – Field Museum Chicago
1,772,255 – Tokyo National Museum Tokyo
1,674,607 – CaxiaForum Barcelona Barcelona
1,650,000 – Moscow Kremlin Museums Moscow
1,649,969 – Museum of Fine Arts Houston
There’s a PDF file of the full list of art museums, exhibitions, and how the list is compiled here.
I need to get busy! So far, I’ve visited: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, National Gallery of Art Washington, Vatican Museums Vatican City, and Museum of Modern Art New York. I should at least work to go to Chicago or Houston sometime, since trips to London, Madrid, Paris, and Moscow aren’t looking good.
(I originally got this post from Art News Blog).
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