Historic House is Most Visited Museum in the World

Despite the drop in visitor numbers needs to gain some museums continue growing masses.

There was little movement among the ten most-visited museums last year, but the directors have to feel happy about the increase in the presence of the line. The British Museum attracted 270,000 visitors more than in 2009, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, said of 326,000 and more visitors to Tate Modern it joined them in the elite club, the 5m-plus over the museum. The director of the Museu Picasso, Barcelona, ​​a modest size institution that is hiding in the city The old town, may have reason to feel satisfied. The museum sprang from the 40s to 24 overall, have organized shows how tempting the "Secret Files: Picasso and the Japanese erotic print. These and other exhibitions attracted 1.3m visitors in 2010.

But the Louvre, the former residence of the kings of France, high on the list of the most visited museum in the world with 8.5 million visitors (and I think they were all there the day I visited). Not bad for a historic house museum.

And the collections of the National Trust was doing well, too. "Designing the Lincoln Memorial at the National Gallery of Art presented a plaster model of the seated Lincoln in the collections of chester Wood, a National Trust Historic Site in Massachusetts. Almost 3 million people saw the show in 2009-10 and is the world's most visited exhibition for the year.