The Forbidden City in Beijing is the most popular museum in the world – 15 million visits last year, the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg had 3,7 million visits
The Hermitage in The Palace Square in Saint Petersburg. Photo: Sirpa Pääkkönen In recent years , the world's most visited museum has been the Forbidden City Palace Museum in Beijing, China. The annual number of visits has risen there up to more than 15 million. At the forefront of the world has long remained the Louvre in Paris (8.6 million visits in 2015). Northern European museums overwhelming number one is the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg (3.7 million visits in 2015). The Forbidden City. Photo: Wikipedia. These data derive from Statistics Finland'scultural statistical table package. The Palace Museum in Beijing is located in the imperial palace of the consecutive Ming (1363-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties. The architectural complex is also known as the Forbidden City in the middle of Beijing. The museum has vast holdings of paintings, calligraphy, ceramics and antiquities of the imperial collections. In 1987the museum was listed as a UNESCO Wor...