The number of visitors to the New York museum has increased by as much as twelve per cent to 1.1 million

much of the past year, the facade of the New York Guggenheim Museum, designed the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright (Frank Lloyd Wright), was shut down construction in forests, but this has not stopped fans of the beautiful beat the record attendance at the museum. In 2008, we look at the treasures of the museum came to 1.1 million, an increase of 12 per cent more than in 2007-m.

Even at the museum store sales last year increased by 13 percent - in no small measure thanks to restoration work. Guide Guggenheim decided to send a «in the civilized mainstream» love art tourists to this historic rubble of buildings, so the museum has produced a series of ornaments, part of which is «restoration stones» - pieces of the original walls of the building, and offered them for sale at the museum shop.

In 2008, 60 per cent of museum visitors come from abroad.

The most popular exhibition was a retrospective of Chinese artist Tsaya Go-tsyana (Cai Guo-Qiang) under the title «I want to believe». It attracted 344 389 art lovers.

Material prepared Yulia Maksimova

Sources: crainsnewyork.com , artinvestment.ru