What are the museums that attract the most visitors in the world?
A woman with a mysterious smile, one of the paintings attracting the most visitors to the world’s most popular museum, does that tell you something? In a centuries-old museum where the insertion of a glass pyramid made him leap into the modern era in 1989?
Okay, you're in... We're good at it. Louvre , in Paris, in the most visited museum in the world with 9.3 million visitors last year, according to the figures of the Museum Index 2013. This is it. index , released at the beginning of June in a report on the attendance of tourist sites by TEA/AECOM , is in its second year of monitoring museum attendance.
The report states most visited museums in Europe, the United States, Canada and the Asia-Pacific region. Next year, Mexico and Latin America will be included in the museum category, according to the engineering design firm AECOM, one of the organizations behind the project.
The top 20 most visited museums in the world In particular, there are 6 museums (all free!) in London, whose Olympic Games in 2012 made a huge publicity. Despite its paid entry, the Louvre Museum remains far ahead with 9.3 million visitors against 8 million for National Museum of Natural History from Washington, whose entrance is free.
Also read: The 50 most visited monuments in the world
Here are two. infographics providing further information on the rest of this classification compared to 2012 figures:
Sources: The Economist, AECOM 2013 Theme Index. Main Photo: Flickr – Juan Salmoral
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