Source: The Australian
THE stereotype that Sydneysiders love events while Melburnians prefer loyalty appears to be borne out by an international survey of museum attendances.
According to figures published in the latest issue of The Art Newspaper, the three most popular museum exhibitions in Australia last year were staged in Sydney - but Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria remained the nation's most visited.
In 2012, Picasso from Paris's Musee National Picasso at the Art Gallery of NSW was the most popular exhibition with 366,753 visitors. That was followed by Harry Potter: the Exhibition at Sydney's Powerhouse with 382,739 and the Archibald Prize at the AGNSW with 114,856.
The London-published journal used figures supplied by the institutions to rank hundreds of exhibitions held around the world according to their daily attendance. This explains why Picasso's 2737 daily visitors ranks it above Harry Potter, which averaged 2695. Those exhibitions ranked in the top 150 worldwide.
The Archibald Prize recorded 1795 visitors a day.
Last year's most popular exhibition was Masterpieces from the Mauritshuis, which included Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, at Tokyo's Metropolitan Art Museum. It was seen by 10,573 people a day, 758,000 in total.
The survey results show the Latin American exhibition boom continues. In Asian cities the opportunities to see rare works by master painters still drives audience numbers, whereas modern art is the driving force in Paris, New York and London.
Melbourne's NGV had 1.57 million visitors last year at its two sites. The gallery's Napoleon Revolution to Empire recorded 1474 visitors each day but didn't rank among the top 300 exhibitions worldwide.
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