Louvre cements spot as world's most-visited museum
The Louvre cemented its position as the world's most-visited museum, with a record 8.8 million visitors making the trip to the Paris home of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and other masterpieces in 2011.
BY ABC | Jan 03, 2012

The Louvre cemented its position as the world's most-visited museum, with a record 8.8 million visitors making the trip to the Paris home of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and other masterpieces in 2011.

The Louvre saw a 5 per cent increase in visitors in 2011, after three years in a row in which about 8.5 million people had visited the museum, it said in a statement.

The museum said it enjoyed "a strong return of American visits and a more and more marked presence of visitors from emerging countries".

Visitors from abroad accounted for 66 per cent of the museum's attendees, led by tourists from the United States, followed by Brazil, Italy, Australia and China.

The number of visitors to French museums is expected to have grown overall by more than 5 per cent last year to about 27 million, French heritage officials said last week.

According to a survey by London-based The Art Newspaper, the second most-visited museum in 2010 was the British Museum, with 5.8 million visitors, followed by New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art with 5.2 million.


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