Top Xxx Fine Art Galleries Too Museums Inwards The The World Inwards 2012

The Visitor Figures Survey (2012) - Exhibition & museum attendance conducted by The Art Newspaper provides a guide to which museums are doing good too 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 entirely a guide to which are the occur museums.  There are all sorts of problems (of the "apples too pears" variety) inwards damage of

• how the numbers are collected too which are estimated too which are accurate (For representative - this twelvemonth the Louvre has managed to arrive at a render which isn't same rounded figure that it has had had for the concluding three years!)
• which are for museums which accuse too which are for museums which are gratis to enter.  

Nevertheless it's likely the best survey available of the relative popularity of the dissimilar fine art galleries too museums.

The survey focuses inwards the primary on attendances at the fine art exhibitions too there's pages of analysis of those for people who similar that form of thing.  I'll move commenting afterward on what it says well-nigh exhibitions inwards the UK.

The Top thirty Art Galleries too Museums inwards the World inwards 2012

I've enhanced this year's listing to reverberate the wide geographical surface area too whether surgical procedure is improve or worse than concluding year. Following the occur thirty listing I convey a commentary on what the listing tells us this year.  The listing includes

• the number of visitors, the rear of the museum, too the metropolis that the museum is located inwards - equally per the Art Newspaper survey
• the ranked seat number too a color code to dot the location of the gallery or museum. This  colour coding enables yous to run across to a greater extent than easily where the the cracking museums are located.
• An upward or downward arrow to the left of the visitor numbers which enables a quick banking concern fit on whether a museum is doing improve or worse than concluding year 
• I've too indicated the novel entries inwards the occur thirty inwards 2012.

blue = UK
red = Europe

purple = Russian Federation / ex USSR

orange = USA & Canada 

green = Asia

magenta = South America

light bluish = Australasia

The arrows at the cease relate to whether the number of visitors are upward or downward when compared to 2011.

▲ - UP

▼ - DOWN

The occur thirty fine art museums too galleries inwards the footing inwards 2012, based on their self-reported annual visitor numbers, are equally detailed inwards the listing below. 

Click the link inwards the rear to honour out to a greater extent than well-nigh the museum - inwards English!

The divergence i icon tin 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 occur 30
24. ▲ 1,590,608 Getty Los Angeles NEW ENTRY inwards occur 30
25. ▲ 1,571,333 National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne NEW ENTRY inwards occur 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 occur 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) too the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago).  However this is because the Prado doesn't seem to convey returned whatever figures equally it's completely missing from the survey - which is rattling odd.
• There is no enquiry that attendance at the fine art galleries too museums inwards London definitely suffered from the Olympic lawsuit - when everybody avoided going into the centre of London for well-nigh 6 weeks.  It thus makes the phenomenal growth inwards visitors at Tate Modern that much to a greater extent than impressive.  Well done too to the National Portrait Gallery in London for bucking the tendency of falling visitor numbers.  They topped 2 i 1000 one thousand visitors for the commencement fourth dimension - helped no incertitude past times the extremely pop exhibition of Lucian Freud Portraits.
• In general, visitors seem to convey declined at a number of the occur museums too fine art galleries inwards the occur 20. Some museums are genuinely getting fewer visitors too silent ascension inwards ranked position!
• Numbers at private museums vary from twelvemonth to twelvemonth depending on the extent of plant relating to refurbishment and/or novel galleries.  The Louvre has seen a massive jump inwards visitors this twelvemonth too the novel fly for Islamic fine art must have played a move inwards this.  
• The major apples too pears number for me concerns those places which are genuinely full general arts centres rather than specific fine art galleries too museums (eg Centre Pompidou too the Centro Cultural Banco exercise Brasil). I do hope that the survey addresses this at around dot inwards the future.  It's my belief they exercise rather improve inwards this survey than they exercise inwards reality.
• The bottom quartile of the occur thirty tends to move where the novel entries arrive.
• However the Vatican Museums convey jumped conduct inwards at #6 inwards 2012!  I can't honour them inwards previous surveys too so assume they haven't been approached previously and/or decided non to participate
• Well done to Edinburgh for achieving ii museums inwards the occur thirty inwards 2012!  I'm guessing that aggregating the museums on dissimilar sites which are collectively known equally the National Galleries of Scotland made a large divergence to the count.
• Well done too to Commonwealth of Australia for getting its commencement museum inwards the occur thirty - although National Gallery of Victoria is non the i which would convey sprung to heed as being the commencement to attain that accolade.

Tomorrow I'll move highlighting the occur cities for fine art galleries inwards 2012 based on fine art galleries too museums inwards the occur 100 most visited according to the information inwards the survey.

Later I'll move commenting on the occur fine art exhibitions inwards the Great Britain too the resultant of the 3 agency 'fight' for visitors inwards 2012 betwixt David Hockney, Damien Hirst too Lucian Freud.

Links:

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

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