according to the newly released annual list of the most popular museums in the world, art newspaper registers the first place to the louvre in paris. the most popular exhibition was at the tokyo national museum in japan. drawing the most attention at the exhibition was leonardo da vinci’s painting “annunciation”, which was on loan from the uffizi gallery in florence.

the top 20 most popular art museums in the world as compiled by art newspaper are:

louvre, paris
centre pompidou, paris
tate modern, london
british museum, london
metropolitan museum of art, new york
national gallery of art, washington
vatican museums, vatican city
national gallery, london
musee d’orsay, paris
museo nacional del prado, madrid
national palace museum, taipei
victoria and albert museum, london
state hermitage museum, st petersburg
kelvingrove art gallery and museum, glasgow
museum of modern art, new york
field museum, chicago
tokyo national museum, tokyo
caxiaforum barcelona, barcelona
moscow kremlin museums, moscow
museum of fine arts, houston