Brand New!! Meridian Thirty Fine Art Galleries As Well As Museums Inward The Globe Inward 2012

The Visitor Figures Survey (2012) - Exhibition & museum attendance conducted by The Art Newspaper provides a guide to which museums are doing good as well as which are experiencing a alter inwards their fortune.

I am an extremely keen reader of the annual survey which collects the the (unaudited) visitor numbers reported past times the museums to the paper. I focus on working out what has not been included inwards the associated survey report.

The numbers are exclusively a guide to which are the transcend museums.  There are all sorts of problems (of the "apples as well as pears" variety) inwards price of

• how the numbers are collected as well as which are estimated as well as which are accurate (For illustration - this twelvemonth the Louvre has managed to hit a render which isn't same rounded figure that it has had had for the final three years!)
• which are for museums which accuse as well as which are for museums which are costless to enter.  

Nevertheless it's in all likelihood the best survey available of the relative popularity of the unlike fine art galleries as well as museums.

The survey focuses inwards the principal on attendances at the fine art exhibitions as well as there's pages of analysis of those for people who similar that form of thing.  I'll hold upwards commenting after on what it says close exhibitions inwards the UK.

The Top thirty Art Galleries as well as Museums inwards the World inwards 2012

I've enhanced this year's listing to reverberate the wide geographical expanse as well as whether functioning is ameliorate or worse than final year. Following the transcend thirty listing I bring a commentary on what the listing tells us this year.  The listing includes

• the number of visitors, the advert of the museum, as well as the metropolis that the museum is located inwards - every bit per the Art Newspaper survey
• the ranked seat number as well as a color code to dot the location of the gallery or museum. This  colour coding enables y'all to encounter to a greater extent than easily where the the cracking museums are located.
• An upwards or downwardly arrow to the left of the visitor numbers which enables a quick banking concern tally on whether a museum is doing ameliorate or worse than final year 
• I've likewise indicated the novel entries inwards the transcend thirty inwards 2012.

blue = UK
red = Europe

purple = Russian Federation / ex USSR

orange = USA & Canada 

green = Asia

magenta = South America

light blueish = Australasia

The arrows at the halt relate to whether the number of visitors are upwards or downwardly when compared to 2011.

▲ - UP

▼ - DOWN

The transcend thirty fine art museums as well as galleries inwards the Blue Planet inwards 2012, based on their self-reported annual visitor numbers, are every bit detailed inwards the listing below. 

Click the link inwards the advert to respect out to a greater extent than close the museum - inwards English!

The divergence 1 icon tin lavatory brand - crowds viewing the Mona Lisa inwards The Louvre

Musée d'Orsay inwards Paris

1. ▲ 9,720,260 Louvre, Paris  
2. ▲ 6,115,881 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 
3. ▼ 5,575,946 British Museum, London 
4. ▲ 5,304,710 Tate Modern, London 
5. ▼ 5,163,902 National Gallery, London 
6. ▲ 5,064,546 Vatican Museums, Vatican City  NEW ENTRY
7. ▲ 4,360,815 National Palace Museum, Taipei 
8. ▼ 4,200,000 National Gallery of Art, Washington 
9. ▲ 3,800,000 Centre Pompidou, Paris 
10. ▲ 3,613,076 Musee d’Orsay, Paris 
11. ▲ 3,231,700 Victoria & Albert Museum London 
12. ▼ 3,128,550 National Museum of Korea, Seoul 
13. ▼ 2,882,385 State Hermitage Museum St Petersburg 
14. ▼ 2,805,659 Museum of Modern Art New York 
15. ▲ 2,640,264 National Folk Museum of Korea Seoul 
16. ▼ 2,565,000 Reina Sofía Madrid 
17. ▼ 2,235,354 Centro Cultural Banco exercise Brasil Rio de Janeiro 
18. ▲ 2,096,858 National Portrait Gallery London
19. ▲ 1,944,820 Shanghai Museum Shanghai
20. ▲ 1,893,521 National Museum of Scotland Edinburgh
21. ▲ 1,769,217 Galleria degli Uffizi Florence
22. ▲ 1,735,600 Moscow Kremlin Museums Moscow
23. ▲ 1,604,105 National Galleries of Scotland Edinburgh NEW ENTRY inwards transcend 30
24. ▲ 1,590,608 Getty Los Angeles NEW ENTRY inwards transcend 30
25. ▲ 1,571,333 National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne NEW ENTRY inwards transcend 30
26. ▲ 1,536,833 Tate Britain London
27. ▲ 1,518,927 Grand Palais Paris
28. ▲ 1,504,286 Tokyo National Museum Tokyo
29. ▲ 1,491,575 State Tretyakov Gallery Moscow NEW ENTRY inwards transcend 30
30. ▼ 1,486,281 Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam

Side Entrance to Tate Britain

The primal points are:

• Museums dropping out of the Top thirty inwards 2012 include the Museo Nacional del Prado (Madrid) as well as the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago).  However this is because the Prado doesn't seem to bring returned whatsoever figures every bit it's completely missing from the survey - which is really odd.
• There is no enquiry that attendance at the fine art galleries as well as museums inwards London definitely suffered from the Olympic lawsuit - when everybody avoided going into the centre of London for close 6 weeks.  It thence makes the phenomenal growth inwards visitors at Tate Modern that much to a greater extent than impressive.  Well done likewise to the National Portrait Gallery in London for bucking the tendency of falling visitor numbers.  They topped 2 1000000 visitors for the starting fourth dimension time - helped no dubiety past times the extremely pop exhibition of Lucian Freud Portraits.
• In general, visitors look to bring declined at a number of the transcend museums as well as fine art galleries inwards the transcend 20. Some museums are genuinely getting fewer visitors as well as soundless rise inwards ranked position!
• Numbers at private museums vary from twelvemonth to twelvemonth depending on the extent of industrial plant relating to refurbishment and/or novel galleries.  The Louvre has seen a massive jump inwards visitors this twelvemonth as well as the novel fly for Islamic fine art must have played a occupation inwards this.  
• The major apples as well as pears number for me concerns those places which are genuinely full general arts centres rather than specific fine art galleries as well as museums (eg Centre Pompidou as well as the Centro Cultural Banco exercise Brasil). I do hope that the survey addresses this at about dot inwards the future.  It's my belief they exercise rather ameliorate inwards this survey than they exercise inwards reality.
• The bottom quartile of the transcend thirty tends to hold upwards where the novel entries arrive.
• However the Vatican Museums bring jumped conduct inwards at #6 inwards 2012!  I can't respect them inwards previous surveys as well as so assume they haven't been approached previously and/or decided non to participate
• Well done to Edinburgh for achieving 2 museums inwards the transcend thirty inwards 2012!  I'm guessing that aggregating the museums on unlike sites which are collectively known every bit the National Galleries of Scotland made a large divergence to the count.
• Well done likewise to Commonwealth of Australia for getting its starting fourth dimension museum inwards the transcend thirty - although National Gallery of Victoria is non the 1 which would bring sprung to hear as being the starting fourth dimension to attain that accolade.

Tomorrow I'll hold upwards highlighting the transcend cities for fine art galleries inwards 2012 based on fine art galleries as well as museums inwards the transcend 100 most visited according to the information inwards the survey.

Later I'll hold upwards commenting on the transcend fine art exhibitions inwards the Britain as well as the termination of the 3 means 'fight' for visitors inwards 2012 betwixt David Hockney, Damien Hirst as well as Lucian Freud.

Links:

• Top thirty fine art galleries as well as museums inwards 2011
• Top thirty fine art galleries as well as museums inwards 2010
• Top 10 Art Galleries as well as Museums inwards the World

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