Art museums that received the most visitors in 2009 Quiz

Can you name the art museums that received the most visitors in 2009?

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Source: The Art Newspaper 2010 report
Can you name the world's most popular art museums and galleries? Each of these received more than 1,000,000 visitors in 2009.
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City	Museum or Gallery	Attendance
Paris		8,500,000
London		5,569,981
New York		4,891,450
London		4,780,030
London		4,747,537
Washington		4,605,606
Paris		3,530,000
Paris		3,022,012
Madrid		2,763,094
Seoul		2,730,204
New York		2,672,761
Taipei		2,574,804
St. Petersburg		2,426,203
Tokyo		2,273,634
London		2,269,900
Madrid		2,087,415
London		1,961,843
Chicago		1,846,889
San Francisco		1,840,812
Moscow		1,572,171
Florence		1,530,318

City	Museum or Gallery	Attendance
Tokyo		1,513,249
London		1,501,837
Tokyo		1,500,000
Paris		1,496,438
Amsterdam		1,451,139
Glasgow		1,368,096
Sydney		1,312,762
Indianapolis		1,300,000
Moscow		1,283,401
Houston		1,274,774
London		1,267,784
New York		1,263,111
London		1,260,840
Venice		1,216,799
Washington		1,186,493
Los Angeles		1,153,903
Vienna		1,140,959
Florence		1,130,136
Berlin		1,093,000
Barcelona		1,061,106
Washington		1,002,300
Tokyo	1,002,300
Paris	1,002,300
Washington	1,002,300
Bilbao	1,002,300
Amsterdam	1,002,300
London	1,002,300
Madrid	1,002,300
Vienna	1,002,300
London	1,002,300
Paris	1,002,300
San Francisco	1,002,300
Los Angeles	1,002,300
Washington	1,002,300
Minneapolis	1,002,300
New York	1,002,300
Seattle	1,002,300
	1,002,300

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World's Most Visited Art Museums Quiz

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	Squiffy:	Oct 14th, 2010 at 17:21 GMT		1 point
	Hold up! The British Museum isn't an art gallery - it's a museum. The Doge's Palace in Venice isn't an art gallery either!

	scarequotes:	Oct 14th, 2010 at 17:29 GMT		0 points
	@Squiffy: The quiz says "museums or art galleries," so I'm not sure where your objection comes from.

	KeanuReeves:	Oct 14th, 2010 at 17:46 GMT		10 points
	I like that London has so many museums listed; it's probably since they are all free. I don't even know how some of them track attendance, like the Saatchi Gallery.

	johnspartan4187:	Oct 14th, 2010 at 18:21 GMT		5 points
	Well I just typed 'Louvre' and then gave up. I know my limitations...

	CitizenSnips:	Oct 14th, 2010 at 18:26 GMT		14 points
	I love quizzes where I can get three right answers and still be in the top 50th percentile.

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	H0limkill:	Oct 14th, 2010 at 18:58 GMT		0 points
	I guess regarding the results that Musée du Louvre compared to the others is also freakin' famous for a museum, especially since it isn't located in the Us.

	mungar:	Oct 14th, 2010 at 19:11 GMT		2 points
	I typed in 'the', and was given 'Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía' for some reason.

	jtrichey:	Oct 14th, 2010 at 19:27 GMT		5 points
	I will say the Children's Museum in Indianapolis while a great museum is not an art museum by any stretch of the imagination. Dinosaur bones, water tables, etc.

	tailyour:	Oct 14th, 2010 at 20:03 GMT		2 points
	I wonder how many of the 8 and a half million visitors to the Louvre just see the Mona Lisa and nothing else!

	WyattsTorch:	Oct 14th, 2010 at 20:08 GMT		7 points
	"Met" is acceptable for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, yet "Guggenheim" and "National Gallery" aren't acceptable for their resepective facilities? Hmm...

	scarequotes:	Oct 14th, 2010 at 21:04 GMT		2 points
	@WyattsTorch: Those both work for me. Though I'm curious about what happened to make @mungar's "the" possible, because it did that for me, too.

	chikka2:	Oct 14th, 2010 at 21:18 GMT		2 points
	Great idea for a quiz; I enjoyed recalling all the places. One puzzler was the Tate; I kept typing different spellings, unaware that it was two separate museums.

	ChileNoseJam:	Oct 14th, 2010 at 21:29 GMT		4 points
	@scarequotes: It doesn't say "museums and art galleries", it says "art museums and galleries"; while all those listed as answers do contain some works of art, several are much better known for antiquities - I would never consider the British Museum, V&A or Pergamon, for example, as primarily "art museums or galleries". Also, could "Museo Reina Sofia" be allowed please?

	Pit_trout:	Oct 14th, 2010 at 22:38 GMT		1 point
	I missed four that I've been to… headdesk Lovely quiz, though I agree with several commenters' reservations that not all of these would normally be thought of as "art museums or galleries".

	ShortyNJ:	Oct 15th, 2010 at 00:45 GMT		1 point
	(A suggestion to fix the problem with "the" mentioned by Mungar: make sure there are no spaces a the beginning of the answer.)

	WCRoentgen:	Oct 15th, 2010 at 02:36 GMT		2 points
	More visitors in Amsterdam attend the Van Gogh than the Rijksmuseum? Hard to believe. And museums in Indianapolis and Houston get more visitors than the sensational Philadelphia Museum of Art (cue the Theme from Rocky), which doesn't even make this list?

	mustango:	Oct 15th, 2010 at 03:36 GMT		1 point
	"I don't know much about art, but I know what I like." I proved the first half of that anyway.

	scarequotes:	Oct 15th, 2010 at 04:17 GMT		1 point
	@WCRoentgen: Per the source for the quiz, the Rijksmuseum got 864,252 visitors. Philadelphia Museum of Art got 812,479.

	scarequotes:	Oct 15th, 2010 at 04:22 GMT		1 point
	@ChileNoseJam: Right. But Squiffy's comment seems like he thinks this quiz calls the British Museum an art gallery, which it doesn't. And the whole reason for using an art journal for the source is so I can let experts define and crunch numbers as they see fit. Also, now that this is published I can't edit acceptable answers. I tried to be liberal in my alternate names, but wouldn't mind if an admin added more.

	RoloTomasi:	Oct 15th, 2010 at 05:04 GMT		1 point
	@squarenotes... Thank you. I for one really enjoyed this quiz. I would have got two more right had I known that the Tate had split in two. It's been a while since I last lived in London

	HPZ:	Oct 15th, 2010 at 13:03 GMT		2 points
	Reiterating @CitizenSnips's comment ... this is that fantastic kind of quiz that makes you feel actual shame for doing so poorly, only to check the stats and find out that you did quite well. I'll definitely be retaking this quiz to improve my numbers and self esteem. Great job, @scarequotes!

	Imperium:	Oct 15th, 2010 at 16:01 GMT		4 points
	Technically speaking, Antiquities can be classed as Objects d'arte. Certainly most of the British Museum's displays are sculptures, paintings, woodworks, ceramics, metalwork, architectural items and mosaics, which can be easily classed as art. As a sidenote, if anyone's ever in Paris, I recommend the Musee Rodin, a rather pleasant musuem with most of Rodin's works situated near Les Invalides.

	expat:	Oct 15th, 2010 at 18:53 GMT		1 point
	I believe it is Accademia delle belle Arte in Florence ... at least that is what my ticket says. What's wrong with typing MET or TATE. Good quiz but not a great one.

	WithShoes:	Oct 15th, 2010 at 19:54 GMT		3 points
	@daHOOK: Everyone in Chicago does just refer to the Art Institute of Chicago as "The Art Institute," but since there are probably mulitple Art Institutes in the world, we must be specific. And that is it's real name.

	scarequotes:	Oct 15th, 2010 at 19:54 GMT		1 point
	@expat: "Accademia delle belle Arte" didn't turn up as an alternate name for that museum when I searched, but I'm fine with an admin adding it. "Met" should work; it has for me. "Tate" isn't specific enough, because there are two Tates with different visitor counts. ("National Portrait Gallery" gets you both London and DC, though, if that's any consolation.) Sorry you didn't love the quiz.

	scarequotes:	Oct 15th, 2010 at 19:56 GMT		1 point
	@WithShoes: Exactly. Also, AIC does (should) work.

	Mariam:	Oct 15th, 2010 at 20:21 GMT		5 points
	I live in London and I love the fact that museums and art galleries have free entrance. It encourages everyone to visit and appreciate the exhibits and the large number of times London appears on the list is a testament to this.

	zeppelinoid:	Oct 16th, 2010 at 05:44 GMT		2 points
	A wonderful quiz. I was disappointed to only get 14 and then astonished to find that this placed me in the top 5%. I then counted up how many of the museums and galleries I have visited - 15! Spelling problems, or failing to get the precise names seems to be a problem.