The Best Cities For Summit Fine Art Galleries In Addition To Museums (2012)

Which are the best cities to larn to if yous desire to indulge inwards a spot of fine art gallery in addition to museum visiting?

I've reviewed the overstep 100 fine art galleries in addition to museums - judged yesteryear the pose out of visitors - inwards the The Art Newspaper's  Visitor Figures Survey (2012) - Exhibition & museum attendance.

On the reason of the self-reported only unaudited numbers of visitors I've identified the Top 5 Cities for the most pop Art Galleries in addition to Museums inwards the World.  (Actually it's the overstep 5 addition 2 every bit there's been a howling omission from the Survey addition about other metropolis is kickoff to recover its onetime status!)

The names are all:

• prefixed amongst their seat inwards the ranking of the overstep 100 fine art galleries in addition to museums
• plus an indication of the places gained or dropped since 2010 every bit a suffix

While the overstep 4 fine art cities rest the same, inwards 2011 Seoul has instantly replaced Tokyo inwards the overstep 5 next the devastating Tsunami in addition to the aftershocks of the March earthquake off the coast of Japan. However it should live noted that rankings of museums inwards Tokyo had already dropped significantly inwards 2010.

LONDON

London - continues to accept a full of 8 fine art museums in addition to galleries inwards the overstep 100 fine art galleries in addition to museums inwards the world. This is significantly inwards excess of whatever other upper-case missive of the alphabet city. (I alive inwards London in addition to tin larn to all of these inwards nether 45 minutes!). What's likewise meaning for overseas tourists is how many other fine art museums inwards the U.K. are inwards the overstep 100 (see the end).

In 2012, all did good to keep their positions given the adverse affect of the Olympic Games on visitors to the centre of London.

This twelvemonth the National Gallery in addition to Tate Modern swopped positions inwards the overstep 5.  The Royal Academy of Arts did specially good on the strength of the really pop Hockney Exhibition.  By way of contrast, the Serpentine Gallery dropped out of the overstep 100 Art Galleries in addition to Musuems.

The listing inwards 2012 is:

#3.   British Museum, London (no change)

#4.   Tate Modern, London (+1)

#5.   National Gallery, London (-1)  

#11. Victoria in addition to Albert Museum (+3)
#18. National Portrait Gallery (no change)
#26. Tate Britain (+3)
#33. Saatchi Gallery (+10)
#44. Royal Academy of Arts (+19)

Interior Atrium of the British Museum - amongst rock lion

PARIS

While Paris has a lot of fine art galleries inwards the overstep 100, it's got a much greater spread across the 100 than London.

The Louvre Museum

The Louvre continued to keep - in addition to prepare - its unassailable Pb over all other museums in addition to galleries amongst the add-on of a novel fly relating to Islamic Art.

The Museum Quai Branly continues to skid over time.  The Centre Pompidou continues to skid in addition to I predict will skid farther nonetheless when visitor figures are lastly produced for the fine art gallery venue in addition to activities alone. 

#1     The Louvre (no change)
#9     Centre Pompidou (-1)
#10. Musée d'Orsay (no change)
#27  Grand Palais (-2)
#37  Musée du Quai Branly (-8)

#80  Musée de l’Orangerie (+8)

#99  Musée des Arts Décoratifs (new entry)

The Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris  dropped out of the overstep 100.


NEW YORK

New York is the 3rd most pop metropolis to catch art.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's novel galleries helped to possess traffic. The New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, in addition to Later Southern Asia  (opened Nov 2011) and an American Wing both helped it to sustain 2nd identify overall.  It volition live interesting to meet whether it tin sustain this seat inwards 2013 when if it has neither a blockbuter exhibition (2011) or novel galleries which the public want to meet (2012).

The Museum of Modern Art has slowed its drib through the rankings only has non recovered its onetime ranked position.

#2     Metropolitan Museum of Art (no change)
#14  Museum of Modern Art, New York (-1)
#47  Guggenheim Musem (-1)

The Caixa Forum in Madrid dropped from #24 inwards 2011 to completely out of the card of riders.

SEOUL

Seoul claims the fourth identify for the initiatory of all time. Two of its 3 museums motility into the overstep 100 museums.

#12 National Museum of Korea (-3)
#15 National Folk Museum of Korea (+1)
#39 National Museum of Contemporary Art (+10)

EDINBURGH

Edinburgh is a novel entry inwards the overstep 5 cities for fine art - amongst 2 museums inwards the overstep 25 - which is quite about achievement. In my sentiment this agency it ranks inwards fifth identify overall.

#20  National Museum of Scotland (+6)
#23  National Galleries of Scotland (new entry)

TOKYO

Tokyo is dorsum inwards 2012! It has 4 fine art galleries in addition to museums inwards the overstep 100.  It lost its fifth identify inwards the overstep 5 inwards 2011 due to the affect of the seismic sea wave the twelvemonth before.

#28  Tokyo National Museum (+3)
#56  Mori Art Museum (new entry)
#63  National Art Center Tokyo (new entry)
#67  National Museum of Western Art (+35)

MADRID

The large intelligence - inwards relation to the Survey - is that the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid is non included inwards the rankings.  It's difficult to meet why it mightiness accept been excluded from such a  prestigious Survey.  Presumably they refused to brand a provide every bit I assume the Art paper propted them for their return.

Madrid drops out of the overstep 5 on the reason of this omission. The astounding saltation upwardly the charts yesteryear the Caixa Forum inwards 2011 is non repeated in addition to inwards fact it drops out of the overstep 100 altogether. Like the UK, Espana is likewise stronger inwards the European context inwards damage of its representation of regional museums.

By way of contrast the Museo Thyssen Bornemisza had a most astounding saltation upwardly the charts

#16 Reina Sofía, Madrid (- 1)
#40 Museo Thyssen Bornemisza (+21)

Top 100 Art Galleries in addition to Museums inwards the UK

For the record, other fine art galleries in addition to museums inwards the U.K. which made the overstep 100 are every bit follows

#53 Kelvingrove Art Gallery in addition to Museum, Glasgow
#61 Riverside Museum, Glasgow
#74 Ashmolean Museum Oxford
#83 Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham


Plus #98 National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

What tin I say?  If yous desire to see the best arrive at of overstep fine art museums in addition to galleries inwards the world - come upwardly to the UK!

I've updated my data site almost the overstep museums in addition to fine art galleries which yous tin honor hither - Top 10 Art Galleries in addition to Museums inwards the World.

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