"International data reveals that in 2007 the Museum of Fine Arts Budapest joined the ranks of those museums that attract the highest numbers of visitors.According to the statistical data of the international market leading art journal The Art Newspaper, the Van Gogh exhibition staged in the Budapest museum in 2007 came fourth in the “Impressionists and Modernity” category with only the Monet exhibition in the Tokyo National Art Center and the exhibition From Cézanne to Picasso staged in the Museé d’Orsay of Paris and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York coming before it.
According to annual visitor numbers, the Museum of Fine Arts occupies the distinguished 46th place among the world’s museums with its 764 thousand visitors, which comes close to the figure of the Guggenheim Museum in New York and exceeds that of the Rodin museum in Paris and Tate Liverpool, as well as the Belvedere and the Albertina in Vienna.
The Museum of Fine Arts is the only museum in the Central-Eastern-European region quoted by the statistics of The Art Newspaper. The Louvre is at the top of the list with the over eight million visitors it welcomed last year, while the Centre Pompidou comes second with five and a half million and Tate Modern in London is in third place with over five million visitors.
More than 760 thousand came to see the exhibitions organised here in 2007."
Source: Museum of Fine Arts
06.03.2008