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Знаменитые музеи, которые ежегодно посещают миллионы. ФотоThese are the most popular museums in the world.

Where are people who want to witness the 12-meter skeleton of a prehistoric dinosaur or original paintings by van Gogh, Salvador Dali and other famous artists? Today we will talk about 15 most visited museums in the world that are the tourists from all over the world.

1. National gallery of art, Washington, DC, USA

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3.9 million visitors per year
In the National gallery of art, located in the capital of the United States, is a large collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculptures, medals and decorative art. This Museum is the only place in America where you can see paintings of Leonardo da Vinci.

2. National Museum of American history in Washington, USA

Знаменитые музеи, которые ежегодно посещают миллионы. Фото

4 million visitors per year
At the National Museum of American history, which is part of the Smithsonian institution, collected a variety of exhibits relating to the historical heritage of the United States.

3. Shanghai science and technology Museum, Shanghai, China

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4.2 million visitors a year
Located in Shanghai science and technology Museum is second largest Museum in China. His 13 main permanent exhibitions and 4 science pavilion covers an area of 100,000 square meters.

4. American Museum of natural history, new York, USA

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5 million visitors per year
In new York, Manhattan is the American Museum of natural history, where a huge collection of more than 32 million copies of the remains of ancient plants, people, animals, fossils, etc. One of the largest museums in the world takes as many as 27 interconnected buildings.

5. The natural history Museum, London, UK

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5.4 million visitors a year
80 million specimens related to botany, entomology, Mineralogy, paleontology and Zoology are in the natural history Museum in London, which was founded in 1881. The Museum is particularly famous for its exhibition of dinosaur skeletons.

6. The national Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

Знаменитые музеи, которые ежегодно посещают миллионы. Фото

5.4 million visitors a year
Initially, the Palace Museum, which was a collection of monuments of Chinese culture and history, opened in Beijing on the territory of the Forbidden city in 1925. Then during the civil war in China in 1948, most of the exhibits had been moved to Taiwan. Now in the most important national Taiwan Museum is the collection of almost 700,000 ancient Chinese artifacts and artwork, which covers more than 10, 000 years of Chinese history.

7. Tate Modern, London, UK

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5.8 million visitors a year
Tate Modern is the British national gallery of international modern art. The gallery, which occupies a seven-storey building, attracts nearly 5.8 million visitors a year, making it third in number of visits to Museum in the UK and the ninth most visited Museum in the world.

8. Vatican Museums, Vatican City

Знаменитые музеи, которые ежегодно посещают миллионы. Фото

5.9 million visitors a year
The Museum complex was founded in the city-state of Vatican city by Pope Julius II in the early 16th century. Now in these museums showcase some of the most famous classical sculptures and most important masterpieces of Renaissance art in the world.

9. The Metropolitan Museum of art, new York, USA

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6.1 million visitors per year
In the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of art, founded in 1870, has more than 2 million works of art, divided into seventeen departments. The Museum covers an area of 190 000 sq m, is the largest art Museum in the United States and one of the largest in the world.

10. National gallery, London, UK

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6.4 million visitors a year
Located in Trafalgar square in Central London, the national gallery boasts a collection of over 2 300 paintings, whose age is dated from the mid-13th century to 1900. The gallery exhibits works of art by some of the world’s most famous authors, including Leonardo da Vinci and van Gogh.

11. National Museum of aviation and Astronautics, Washington, DC, USA

Знаменитые музеи, которые ежегодно посещают миллионы. Фото

6.7 million visitors a year
In another part of the Smithsonian institution – National Museum of aviation and Astronautics hosted the world’s largest collection of historic aircraft and spacecraft.

12. British Museum, London, UK

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6.7 million visitors a year
Founded in 1753 the British Museum dedicated to human history and culture. Its permanent collection includes about 8 million items and is one of the largest and most complete in the world. The most visited Museum in the UK illustrates and documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.

13. National Museum of natural history, Washington, DC, USA

7.3 million visitors a year
Here you can see a collection of 126 million specimens representing plants, animals, fossils, rocks, meteorites, and other artifacts. National Museum of natural history is the most visited Museum in the United States.

14. National Museum of China, Beijing, China

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7.5 million visitors a year
China national Museum dedicated to the art and history of China, was opened only 12 years ago, but in such a short time had assembled a collection of more than 1 million exhibits.

15. The Louvre, Paris, France

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9.3 million visitors a year
The Louvre was originally built as a fortress in the late 12th century. Now is the most famous and most visited Museum in the world, which is also one of the main attractions in Paris. In the Louvre you can find more than 380, 000 objects and 35,000 works of art.

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