Louvre most popular in 2007
Older art beat newer art for bragging rights as Paris’ Louvre, home to the “Mona Lisa,” drew more visitors last year than its local contemporary-art rival, the Centre Pompidou, according to an Art Newspaper survey.
The Louvre led all museums worldwide with 8.3 million visitors in 2007. The Centre Pompidou attracted 5.5 million visits, putting it in second place on a list of the best-attended museums compiled by the London-based newspaper for its March issue.
Tate Modern on the Thames in London counted 5.2 million entrants, followed by the British Museum, with 4.8 million, and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, with 4.5 million, the newspaper said.
The survey doesn’t distinguish between museums that charge for admission and those that don’t. It also doesn’t include information on museum revenue.
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