Louvre is most visited venue of 2012
08:11, 29 March 2013
PARIS. March 29. KAZINFORM The Louvre in Paris has topped the list of the most visited art museums of 2012, according to the Art Newspaper.
The publication's annual survey found 9.7 million people visited the French institute - one million more than 2011.
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art was the second most-visited venue, with three London museums taking the third, fourth and fifth spots.
The most popular exhibition of the year was a show of Dutch Old Masters at Tokyo's Metropolitan Art Museum.
Masterpieces from the Mauritshuis, which included Vermeer's 1665 painting Girl with a Pearl Earring, brought 10,500 visitors a day to the Tokyo gallery between June and September 2012, Kazinform has learnt from BBC News.
The paintings had been on loan from The Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis in the Hague, which is closed for refurbishment until mid-2014.
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