Top ten most popular art museums
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Apeshit at the Louvre
It was a record year for the Musée du Louvre in Paris, both in terms of its overall attendance and its staging of the most popular exhibition in its history. With a whopping 10.2 million visitors in 2018, the 226-year-old French institution comfortably retains its title as the most popular art museum in our survey. Its major show on the quintessential 19th-century French Romantic Eugène Delacroix was seen by record 540,000 people (5,431 a day) during its four-month run. The Louvre credits the 26% increase in total attendance on the previous year to three factors: the allure of Delacroix; the popularity of Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s music video “Apeshit”, which was shot in the former palace and shows the hip-hop power couple lounging in front of star attractions, including the Mona Lisa; and an upswing in foreign visitors to the city after a substantial dip in the wake of the deadly terrorist attacks in 2015. Paris’s Centre Pompidou and the Musée d’Orsay had an uptick in visitors, by around 180,000 and 108,000 respectively.
The Louvre’s previous record of 9.7 million visitors was set back in 2012, when it staged Leonardo and Raphael blockbusters. Its forthcoming show on Leonardo, which is due to open this October to mark the quincentenary of the Italian master’s death, is bound to give Delacroix a run for his money. Meanwhile, officials at the Louvre’s outpost in Abu Dhabi, which opened in November 2017, report that one million people visited the museum in 2018.
The National Museum of China in Beijing, which made its first appearance in our 2017 survey, retains second position in overall attendance with 8.6 million annual visitors—an increase of 550,000 on the previous year—and the Met once again takes third with nearly seven million visitors to its Fifth Avenue and Cloisters premises (7.4 million if you include the Met Breuer). The Vatican Museums holds on to the fourth slot, with an increase in attendance of around 330,000 on 2017.
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