Night at the Museum: The Most Visited Museums

If you’re a tourist who want to experience the best of art and culture that a vacation destination has to offer, the local museum should always be your first stop. For people visiting cities like Paris, London, and Washington, D.C., the museums there are must-see destinations. They house world famous collections, and you can easily while away hours there without thinking twice.

If you’re looking for a new museum to visit, take a look at some of the ones on this list as they’re some of the most visited museums in the world, and for good reason. All of them are world-class bastions of art and antiquities that house our most amazing intellectual and artistic treasures.

1. The Palace Museum – Beijing, China

The collections of the Palace Museum of Beijing are housed in the Forbidden City, which was formerly the home of the Emperors of China from the 15^th until the 20^th century. The building itself is a stunning work of art — a prime example of traditional Chinese palatial architecture.

In 1925, the palace was given over to museum authorities, who turned it into the home of the imperial art collections. It regularly sees over 14 million visitors a year, and is the most visited museum in the world. In the collections are over 340,000 pieces of Chinese porcelain and ceramics, bronze statues from the early Shang dynasty, and over 50,000 paintings.

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