LONDON.- Tate and its family of galleries have had one of the most successful years ever, and have managed to maintain their independent income in the face of recession and government cuts. At its annual press conference today, Tate announced total visitor figures of 7.4 million to its four galleries between 1 April 2010 and 31 March 2011 and 19 million unique users to its award-winning website. This makes Tate the most popular arts organisation in the world after the Louvre in Paris. These figures are given in detail in Tate’s Annual Report 2010-11 which is published today. *Gauguin: Maker of Myth at Tate Modern, which presented the artist in a fascinating new light, drew the third highest attendance for an exhibition in Tate’s history. Followers on social networking sites grew to over 200,000 on Facebook and over 300,000 on Twitter and Tate Curators contributed to exhibition blogs for the first time.