Top Thirty Fine Art Galleries As Well As Museums Inwards 2011

The Art Newspaper of late published its annual review of Exhibition too Museum Attendance Fugures for 2011.  This documents the visitor numbers to fine art exhibitions too fine art galleries too museums inwards 2011.

Below I supply my digest too commentary on the data relating to the transcend museums.

The Top xxx Art Galleries too Museums inwards the World inwards 2011

The Art Newspaper determines the transcend fine art galleries too museums based on the (unaudited) visitor numbers reported past times the museums to the paper.  The original work amongst the numbers is that they are self-reported too non audited.  Also some museums accuse - making it easier to count numbers patch others cause got gratis entry.  Then there's the people similar me who cause got "Friends" or "member" condition which gets me inwards gratis equally many times equally I like!

The transcend xxx fine art museums too galleries inwards 2011, based on their self-reported annual visitor numbers, are equally detailed inwards the listing below.

This includes 

• the issue of visitors, the advert of the museum, too the metropolis that the museum is located inwards - equally per the Art Newspaper survey
• the ranked pose issue too a color code (my novel added value for this year) to betoken the location of the gallery or museum - equally per me!

The color coding for places enables you lot to come across to a greater extent than easily where the focus of the slap-up museums is. Following the transcend xxx listing I cause got a listing of the transcend cities.

red = Europe

blue = UK

purple = Russian Federation / ex USSR

orange = USA & Canada 

green = Asia

1. 8,880,000 Louvre, Paris
2. 6,004,254 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 
3. 5,848,534 British Museum, London
4. 5,253,216 National Gallery, London 
5. 4,802,287 Tate Modern, London 
6. 4,392,252 National Gallery of Art, Washington 
7. 3,849,577 National Palace Museum, Taipei 
8. 3,613,076 Centre Pompidou, Paris 
9. 3,239,549 National Museum of Korea, Seoul 
10. 3,154,000 Musee d’Orsay, Paris 
11. 2,911,767 Museo Nacional del Prado Madrid
12. 2,879,686 State Hermitage Museum St Petersburg
13. 2,814,746 Museum of Modern Art New York
14. 2,789,400 Victoria & Albert Museum London
15. 2,705,529 Reina Sofía Madrid
16. 2,355,956 National Folk Museum of Korea Seoul
17. 2,288,117 Centro Cultural Banco produce Brasil Rio de Janeiro
18. 1,880,104 National Portrait Gallery London
19. 1,742,970 Galleria degli Uffizi Florence
20. 1,727,192 Shanghai Museum Shanghai
21. 1,724,271 Moscow Kremlin Museums Moscow
22. 1,629,333 Tokyo National Museum Tokyo
23. 1,600,298 Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam
24. 1,598,858 CaixaForum Madrid
25. 1,500,000 Grand Palais Paris
26. 1,494,728 National Museum of Scotland Edinburgh
27. 1,485,580 Gyeongju National Museum Gyeongju
28. 1,476,505 Tate Great Britain London
29. 1,457,028 Musée Quai Branly Paris
30. 1,440,599 Art Institute of Chicago Chicago

From this nosotros tin conclude that if you lot desire to come across a lot of slap-up fine art a "Grand Tour" of the Great Britain too Europe powerfulness live ane agency to go!

I personally was real surprised to come across alone 4 American galleries too museums inwards the transcend xxx inwards the world.  The Art Institute of Chicago has dropped ix places patch conversely the Museum of Fine Arts inwards Boston has dramatically improved its ranking - moving upwards some 21 places but staying exterior the transcend 30.

The major movers coming into the Top xxx for the commencement fourth dimension are:

• National Palace Museum, Taipei - inwards to the transcend xxx for the commencement fourth dimension at #7
• CaixaForum Madrid - inwards to the transcend xxx for the commencement fourth dimension at #24

The surprising novel appearance on the fine art scene are the exhibitions too the galleries inwards South America.  Brazil has been having something of an exhibition boom.  The transcend gallery was Centro Cultural Banco produce Brasil, Rio de Janeiro

The transcend cities for fine art galleries

I've likewise reviewed which are the transcend cities for fine art - according to the Art News paper tabulation.  The names are:

• prefixed amongst their pose inwards the ranking of the transcend 100 fine art galleries too museums
• plus an indication of the places gained or dropped since 2010 equally a suffix

While the transcend 4 fine art cities remain the same, inwards 2011 Seoul has similar a shot replaced Tokyo inwards the transcend v next the devastating Tsunami too 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.

The National Gallery inwards Trafalgar Square

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LONDON

London - continues to cause got a full of ix fine art museums too galleries inwards the transcend 100 fine art galleries too museums inwards the world.  This is significantly inwards excess of whatever other upper-case missive of the alphabet city.  (I alive inwards London too tin larn to all of these inwards nether 45 minutes!).  What's likewise pregnant for overseas tourists is how many other fine art museums inwards the Great Britain are inwards the transcend 100.

In price of position, there's some nestling jostling for pose at the transcend terminate - amongst the Da Vinci exhibition doubtless bringing lots of extra visitors to the National Gallery.  Well done likewise to the National Portrait Gallery for maintaining its ranking against some of the giants!  I'm non quite certain what's going on westward of Piccadilly Circus but the downgrade inwards rankings suggests that either the exhibition programmes of Tate Britain, the Saatchi Gallery too the RA failed to print or the rankings went dorsum to normal later on a adept twelvemonth inwards 2009.

#3. British Museum, London (-1)
#4. National Gallery, London (+1)
#5. Tate Modern, London (-1)
#14. Victoria too Albert Museum (-2)
#18. National Portrait Gallery (same)
#29. Tate Great Britain (-9)
#43. Saatchi Gallery (-13)
#63. Royal Academy of Arts (-17)
#66. Serpentine Gallery (+2)

PARIS

Paris continues to cause got an emphasis on lineament rather than quantity. I'm amazed at The Musée d'Orsay beingness able to hang on to the #10 slot given the comport on of the renovation of its Impressionist too Post-Impressionist Galleries during 2010. The Musee Picasso is likewise nevertheless unopen too is due to reopen inwards the Summer of 2013.  In the meantime the residuum of us larn to come across rather a lot of Picasso's travel which is good!

#1 The Louvre (same)
#8 Centre Pompidou, Paris (-2)
#10. Musée d'Orsay, Paris  (same)
#25 Grand Palais, Paris (?)
#29 Quai Branly, Paris (-3)
#58 Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris (-3)

NEW YORK

New York takes 3rd place.  The belatedly Alastair McQueen dazzled at the Met (“Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty”, a posthumoustribute by the Costume Institute) too helped inwards no small-scale agency to secure the #2 ranking.  Both MOMA too the Guggenheim could cause got done amongst a boost similar this.

On average,more than 8,000 people a hateful solar daytime went (in full to a greater extent than or less 660,000). The must-see present helped the Met to a tape twelvemonth inwards our survey, taking its annual full figure to to a greater extent than than 6 million, upwards from 5.2 1000000 inwards 2010The Art Newspaper - Exhibition too mu

seum attendance figures 2011

#2    Metropolitan Museum of Art (+1)
#13  Museum of Modern Art, New York (-6)
#46  Guggenheim Musem (-7)

MADRID

Madrid retained quaternary place.   The Prado stayed simply exterior the transcend ten.  The museum amongst the most astounding leap upwards the charts is the CaixaForum Madrid.  Like the UK, Kingdom of Spain is likewise stronger inwards the European context inwards price of its representation of regional museums.

#11 Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (same)
#15 Reina Sofía, Madrid  (same)

#24 CaixaForum Madrid (not ranked inwards 2010)
#61 Museo Thyssen Bornemisza (+1)

SEOUL

Seoul claims the fifth house for the commencement time.  Two of its 3 museums motility into the transcend 100 museums.

#9 National Museum of Korea, Seoul (same)
#16 National Folk Museum of Korea, Seoul (not ranked inwards 2010)
#49 National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul (not ranked inwards 2010)

I've updated my data site close the transcend museums too fine art galleries which you lot tin discovery hither - Top 10 Art Galleries too Museums. 

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