Museum attendance - London leads the way

April 1 2016

Picture: TAN

Us Brits can be proud of the fact of three of the ten most visited museums in the world last year are in London. As ever, the Art Newspaper's annual visitor survey makes for interesting reading, and to navigate it best you need to get the paper edition. While the biggest draws were the likes of Ai Wei Wei (372k visitors in London) and Jeff Koons (650k in Paris), I'm happy to report, of course, that Old Master exhibitions are still popular: 'Late Rembrandt' had 520k visitors in Amsterdam, and 264k in London; Vleazquez had 478k in Paris and 336k in Vienna; Goya in Madrid had 535k (figures for London seem not be listed); 'Late Turner' had 267k visitors at Tate Britain.

All of the above pale in comparison to the exhibitions held at the National Palace Museum in Taipei, however: there 8 exhibitions drew in over 1m visitors last year, with 5.3m going to see 'The Enchanting Splendor of Vases & Planters'.  

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