Japanese Museums Dominates Art Newspaper Exhibition Ranking

"The ArcelorMittal Orbit", designed by Anish Kapoor with Cecil Balmond/Arup. Image by Arup.

LONDON (REUTERS).- Japanese museums dominated a new table of the world's top art exhibitions in 2009, according to a survey in The Art Newspaper. Ranked by daily entries as opposed to overall visitors, Tokyo National Museum's "Ashura" exhibition, featuring one of the nation's most famous Buddhist statues and other treasures from the Kohfukuji temple, topped the list. It attracted 15,960 people per day, and 946,172 overall, ahead of Nara National Museum's "61st Annual Exhibition of Shoso-in Treasures," which boasted a daily attendance figure of 14,965.


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