These Were the Most Popular Museums in the World, According to Google’s ‘Year in Search’
Turning first to the “Global” results, the Year in Search offers up a ranking of the most-popular museums in the world, as measured by Google Maps interest. They are:
1. Louvre Museum, Paris, France
2. The British Museum, London, United Kingdom
3. Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France
4. Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
5. teamLab Planets, Tokyo, Japan
The big outlier, clearly, is teamLab Planets. The immersive-art extravaganza in Tokyo is a juggernaut, and a particular hit with foreign tourists according to reports. The museum claims that 1 in 10 foreign tourists to Japan buy tickets to check out teamLab’s interactive experience, which features a digital Koi pond where animated fish explode into flowers as visitors touch them, an environment where you walk among glowing spheres, and an area where you can interact with “solidified light.”