Named the most popular museums

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Named the most popular museums
The Louvre is the most popular museum in the world. According to Bloomberg, with reference to an annual ranking of The Art Newspaper, in 2008, he was visited by 8.5 million people.
Second place was taken by the British Museum, where attendance in 2008 was 5.93 million people. In 2007, the Louvre also belonged to first place in the rankings, compiled based on data from the museums themselves.
In third place is the National Gallery of Art in Washington (National Gallery of Art - 4,96 million), the fourth - Tate Modern (Tate Modern), London (4.95 million), the fifth - Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) in New York (4.82) and the sixth - the Vatican Museum Complex (4.44 million).
In the top 10 in absolute attendance includes only museums in Europe and the United States, Asia, the best result at the National Arts Center (National Art Center) in Tokyo - 13th place and 2.47 million visitors. Thus Japan holds the record in 2008 on the number of average attendance of exhibitions.
"The 60 th annual exhibition of the treasures of the temple Sesoin» (60th Annual Exhibition of Shoso-in Treasures) at the National Museum Nara (Nara National Museum) collected by 17926 visitors a day, "National Treasures from Yakushi-ji Temple» (National Treasures from Yakushi-ji Temple) in the National Museum of Tokyo (Tokyo National Museum) - to 12762 visitor.
(Bloomberg)