The Top 10 museums in the UK are revealed today – with London having five of them.
The National Gallery, British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Natural History Museum and Churchill War Rooms have been awarded first, second, third, fourth and seventh place in the 2015 Travellers’ Choice awards for Museums.
The Top 10 Museums in the UK are:
- National Gallery, London – Free admission
- British Museum – Free
- Victoria and Albert – Free
- Natural History Museum – Free
- The Roman Baths, Bath – Admission adult £14, Child (6-16 years) £9
- National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh – Free
- Churchill War Rooms, London – Admission adult £18, Child (5-15 years) £9
- National Railway Museum, York – Free
- Titanic, Belfast – Adult £15.50, Child (5-15 years) £7.25
- Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow – Free
Chris Gottlieb, CMO of London & Partners, the Mayor of London’s official promotional company, said: “London’s museums and galleries are among the most googled and visited in the world. It comes as no surprise that they have been recognised by the 2015 TripAdvisor Travellers’ Choice Awards, with four of the city’s iconic cultural institutions in the UK top five.”
Seven UK museums are also among Europe’s Top 25. The National Gallery and British Museum take fifth and ninth place in Europe respectively. They’re also named seventh and twelfth best rated museums in the world top 25.
Fifteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth place in Europe go to the Victoria and Albert Museum, Natural History Museum and The Roman Baths Museum in Bath, while the National Museum of Scotland and Churchill War Rooms take their places at twenty-second and twenty-fifth respectively.
Other winners include York’s National Railway Museum, Titanic Belfast and the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow which are named eighth, ninth and tenth best rated museums in the UK.
The title of world’s best rated museum goes to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Since 1870, this iconic institution on Manhattan’s Upper East Side has strived to “connect people to creativity, knowledge and ideas” through art. Visitors can view the most extensive display of 17th century Dutch art in the Western Hemisphere, with masterpieces by Frans Hals, Rembrandt and Vermeer.
Europe’s best rated museum is revealed as Paris’ Musee d’Orsay. Housed in the former Gare d’Orsay railway station built between 1898 and 1900, the museum boasts the largest collection of impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces in the world, by painters including Monet, Manet, Renoir and Van Gogh.
Top 10 museums in the world
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York (above)
- Musee d’Orsay,Paris, France
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
- Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain
- Musee du Louvre, Paris, France
- State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia
- National Gallery, London, England
- The Rijksmuseum (National Museum), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Vasa Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
- National Museum of Anthropology (Museo Nacional de Antropologia), Mexico City, Mexico
Top 10 museums in Europe
- Musee d’Orsay, Paris, France (above)
- Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain
- Musee du Louvre, Paris, France
- State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace, St Petersburg, Russia
- National Gallery, London, United Kingdom
- The Rijksmuseum (National Museum), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Vasa Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
- The Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece
- British Museum, London, United Kingdom
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
