Mirror, Mirror: Who’s the Most Popular Art Museum of Them All?

Let’s get out of Philly and go to Paris.
The answer to the question posed in the headline above appears to be the Louvre, which just reported that its total attendance for 2006 was a record 8.3 million, compared to 7.5 million the previous year. If another museum can boast higher numbers, please brag in an e-mail to CultureGrrl.
If 8.3 million isn’t enough, just think how many more visitors will be reached by the planned Global Louvre.
And the Louvre is also going more “global” at home, with plans to open a permanent gallery for British art in 2008.
To give credit where credit is due, the Louvre is not all about rent-a-show: Along with the Musée d’Orsay and 40 other museums throughout France, it is giving support to hurricane-ravaged New Orleans through a loan show, Femme, Femme, Femme: Paintings of Women in French Society from Daumier to Picasso, opening Mar. 3 at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Artists also include Manet, Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec. (Unsurprisingly, the show will close June 3, before the start of the next hurricane season.)
How does the High Museum in Atlanta feel about another Southern museum spoiling its expensive Louvre “exclusive”?