In the first place, as always, the Japanese. In Russia the most popular exhibition was the Moscow Biennale

Recently Newspaper The Art Newspaper has published a list of the most visited exhibitions in 2009. The most popular, as always, enjoy the exposure to Japanese museums: they belong to the first three places. Topped the list show "Ashura-Deva and the treasures of the temple Kofukudzi", held at the Tokyo National Museum. See it came to average 15 960 people a day. Almost the same number of visitors every day could see the ancient treasures of Seso-ying, exhibited in the museum of the ancient capital of Japan, the city of Nara. In third place - an exhibition of objects from the imperial collection, organized in honor of the 20 th anniversary of the ascent to the throne of Emperor Akihito. She also held the Tokyo National Museum.

One reason for the popularity of these shows is that many Japanese perceive their exhibits not only as art but as a spiritual artifacts. Some even pray in front of the temple treasures. This phenomenon was devoted to a symposium held in Tokyo last month.

Residents of the rising sun is also very fond of European painting. In the fourth place in the list was exhibition of paintings from the collection of XVII century the Louvre. The exhibition, which were presented masterpieces by Rembrandt, Poussin and Velazquez, was arranged Tokyo National Museum of Western Art. It is estimated more than 850 thousand people (9.26 thousand a day).

for Tokyo to be Paris. The most visited French exhibition has become the second Photobiennial Photoquai, organized by the Quai Branly Museum. This is the first exhibit of the museum, which joined the list of blockbusters. It has overtaken such exhibitions as « Picasso and his teacher »in the Grand Palais (6 th) and« Kandinsky »at the Centre Pompidou (7 th).

the largest number of blockbusters can boast the New York Museum of Modern Art. In the first thirty of his exhibitions included Joan Miro (8 th), Pipilotti Rist (9), James Ensor (11), Ron Arad (12), Martin Kippenberger (13), Marlene Dumas (15), Vincent van Gogh (16 ), Arnaut Mika (22) and photographs of the American West (27).

In England, the greatest success enjoyed young art. Exhibit of contemporary Chinese and Middle Eastern artists, which can be seen in the new gallery of Charles Saatchi, won the first and third places in the country (28 th and 33 th place in the overall list). Between them is the exhibition "street artist" Banksy, held in a museum in Bristol. These "dark horse" ahead of such heavyweights as the British Museum, National Gallery, Tate Gallery and the Royal Academy.

We have most of visitors attracted the third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (3,2 thousand per day, 54 th). The exhibition, the total number of guests which was 100 thousand, arranged Centre Garage ».

Ten most popular museums in 2009 looks like this:

1 . Louvre, Paris - 8.5 million people.

2. British Museum, London - 5.6 million people.

3. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - 4.9 million people.

4. National Gallery, London - 4.8 million people.

5. Tate Modern, London - 4.75 million people.

6. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC - 4,6 million people.

7. Centre Pompidou, Paris - 3,53 million people.

8. Musee d'Orsay, Paris - 3 million people.

9. National Museum of the Prado, Madrid - 2.76 million people.

10. National Museum of Korea, Seoul - 2,73 million people.

Our Museums in the list are well worthy of a place:

13. The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg - 2,43 million people.

20. The Moscow Kremlin Museums, Moscow - 1,6 million people.

30. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow - 1,28 million people.

92. Moscow Museum of Modern Art - 526 thousand people.

Complete statistical tables can be found here .

material prepared Yulia Maksimova, AI

Sources: theartnewspaper.com , artinvestment.ru