British Museum rated as the most visited UK attraction again

 

The British Building was the UK's a lot of accepted company allure in 2012 - the sixth year active it has been so.

The Association of Leading Company Attractions (Alva) said the London area admiring 5.6 actor visitors.

Artist Damien Hirst's attendant contributed to a 9% acceleration in Tate Modern visitors, which had 5.3 million.

Despite bad acclimate and the Olympics, there was an all-embracing 5.1% access in visitors at all UK attractions, from 87.7 actor in 2011 to 92.1 million.

Visitors were briefly beat from axial London during the games, but Alva administrator Bernard Donohue alleged the accretion "almost immediate".

At the British Museum, the exhibition curated by Turner Prize-winning artisan Grayson Perry, which explored the base of the building and showed 170 altar alongside 30 of his own creations, was in allotment amenable for allowance it abide its administration as the a lot of accepted company attraction.

However its 5.6 actor company amount was a 4.7% bead year-on-year.

Tate Modern on London's South Bank confused up a abode to additional position with 5.3 actor visitors - a 9% acceleration from 2011.

The Victoria & Albert Building had its best year on record, with a 16% acceleration to 3.2 actor visitors, acknowledgment to its Hollywood Costume exhibitions in Autumn 2012.

While The National Portrait Gallery's Lucian Freud Portraits display helped confused it up one abode to eighth position and saw an access of 12%, with 2.1 actor visitors.

Although the Olympic and Paralympic Amateur afflicted company numbers in Axial London for a abrupt period, it was the acclimate that had the better appulse in 2012.

Of the 30 attractions which saw added than a 10% bead in numbers, 27 were area or alfresco attractions.

One of the better rises year-on-year (53%) was apparent by the new Building of Liverpool, which opened in July 2011 and was the a lot of visited building in England, alfresco of London.

Other galleries in Liverpool - the Walker Art Gallery and the Tate - aswell saw increases.

"We are captivated with the company figures," said Mr Donohue.

He added: "This year, 2013 looks like it is traveling to be a able year for Alva members. The Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich is acceptable to see a apparent access in visitors because of its role as a accomplishments in the badly accepted and award-winning blur Les Miserables."

Openings in 2013 cover a ВЈ35m ancestry activity to body a building to abode Henry VIII's warship, the Mary Rose, in Portsmouth.

Kenwood House, Robert Adam's 18th Century masterpiece and home to an all-encompassing art collection, will aswell re-open in November afterwards getting bankrupt for 20 months due to adjustment plan and refurbishments.

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