Louvre Is 2008’s Most Visited Museum In The World

Virtually as anticipated in the art and travel worlds as the Forbes a hundred Richest listing is in the monetary planet, the Top Five Most Visited Museums record was launched currently, with the Louvre topping the record with over 8.five million visitors who descended beneath the planet’s most well-known pyramid (okay, most famed outside of Egypt) in 2008. Second was the British Museum, followed by D.C.’s Nationwide Gallery, the Tate Present day, and then NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Artwork.

At the bottom of the list for the third yr in a row is Gering, Nebraska’s personal North Platte Valley Museum. A regional museum housing artifacts, documents, and other historical components linked to the wealthy heritage of the North Platte Valley, it failed to appeal to even one middle-school area trip in the final quarter of 󈧌. “We are striving every day to make improvements to our museum and to make new and exciting approaches to make pleasure for our superb exhibits,” stated curator Walter Jameson. “We assume that with the additions of our new 3,000-seat IMAX theater and 3-D Cyclorama, we will begin to see an upswing in attendance.”