On Sunday,the"Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" exhibitionat the Metropolitan Museum of Artbecame theeighth-most visited show in the museum"s history.
But the 658,000 or so people who sawthe attraction made up just a fraction of the Met"s annualvisitors.
Last year, for example, more than 5.2million people trekked up the museum"s iconic stairs and throughits galleries.
And the Met isn"t even the world"smost heavily visited art museum.
The ArtNewspaperpublishes lots of annual attendance statisticsfor museums and exhibitions around the world.
These are the art museums that toppedthe list in .
星期天纽约大都会艺术博物馆(MetropolitanMuseumofArt)的“亚历山大·麦昆:野性之美”(AlexanderMcQueen:SavageBeauty)展览成为该馆历史上参观人数第八多的展览。
但是约65.8万人只是大都会艺术博物馆每年参观人数的很小一部分。例如去年,就有520多万人前来参观。要知道大都会艺术博物馆还不是世界上参观人数最多的博物馆。
《艺术新闻报》(TheArtNewspaper)发布了全世界博物馆和展览的参观人数统计。下面是参观人数排名前十六位的艺术博物馆。
The Louvre in Paris had 8.5 millionvisitors
卢浮宫 巴黎 参观人数:850万
The British Museum in London had 5.84million visitors
大英博物馆 伦敦 参观人数:584万
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NewYork City had 5.22 million visitors
大都会博物馆 纽约 参观人数:522万
The Tate Modern in London had 5.06million visitors
泰特现代博物馆 伦敦 参观人数:506万
The National Gallery in London had4.95 million visitors
英国国家美术馆 伦敦 参观人数:495万
The Museum of Modern Art in New YorkCity had 3.13 million visitors
现代艺术博物馆 纽约 参观人数:313万
Centre Pompidou in Paris had 3.13million visitors
蓬皮杜中心 巴黎 参观人数313万人
The National Museum of Korea in Seoulhad 3.07 million visitors
韩国国立博物馆 首尔 参观人数:307万
Muse?e d’Orsay in Paris had 2.99million visitors
奥赛美术馆 巴黎 参观人数:299万
Museo del Prado in Madrid had 2.73million visitors
普拉多博物馆 马德里 参观人数:273万
The Victoria and Albert Museum inLondon had 2.63 million visitors
维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆 伦敦 参观人数:263万
The State Hermitage Museum in St.Petersburg had 2.49 million visitors
国立艾尔米塔什博物馆 圣彼得堡 参观人数249万
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil inRio had 2.32 million visitors
巴西银行文化中心 里约热内卢 参观人数232万
Museo Reina Sofi?a in Madrid had 2.31million visitors
雷纳·索菲亚博物馆马德里 参观人数231万
The De Young Museum in San Franciscohad 2.04 million visitors
笛洋美术馆 旧金山 参观人数:204万
The National Art Center Tokyo inTokyo had 2.03 million visitors
东京国立艺术中心 东京 参观人数:203万
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