Top 20 Art Museums

Art News Blog recently posted a list of the 20 most popular museums in the world, taken from visitor numbers for 2007 compiled by The Art Newspaper (CLICK). London comes up trumps with 4 art museums in the Top 20, Paris next with 3 and New York third with 2. So, if you care to brave the rats, bed bugs, knife-wielding schoolgirls, teenage gunmen, gangs of hoodies ready to kick a man to death, polluted air, drunken Poles, Baltic pimps, Tongs people smugglers, Vietnamese cannabis growers and killer dogs, you know where to come. Here's the list.
8.3m - Louvre, Paris
5.5m - Pompidou Centre, Paris
5.1m - Tate Modern, London
4.8m - British Museum, London
4.5m - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
4.5m - National Gallery of Art, Washington
4.3m - Vatican Museums, Vatican City
4.1m - National Gallery, London
3.1m - Musée d’Orsay, Paris
2.6m - Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
2.6m - National Palace Museum, Taipei
2.4m - Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2.3m - State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
2.2m - Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow
2.2m - Museum of Modern Art, New York
2.1m - Field Museum, Chicago
1.7m - Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo
1.6m - CaxiaForum Barcelona, Barcelona
1.6m - Moscow Kremlin Museums, Moscow
1.6m - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston