Travel Website’s Top 10 Art Museums

Sorry, LACMA, you didn’t make the list. But then neither did the Museum of Modern Art, the Hermitage or the British Museum.
TripAdvisor, the travel website, has compiled a list of the world’s 10 most popular art museums (as travel destinations), which it compiled based on the amount of traffic on its site.
The top three were the Louvre (of course), the Vatican Museums and the Metropolitan Museum, in that order. The sleeper was the Art Institute of Chicago, which beat out the Tate Modern for seventh spot. I’m guessing that its adjoining Gehry-, Plensa- and Kapoor-enhanced Millenium Park has burnished its status as a tourist magnet.
Maybe Chicago will even move up in the rankings, after the opening of its Renzo Piano-designed modern wing, which includes a bridge to the park.
The rankings may say more about the people who rely on TripAdvisor for museum information than they do about the museums themselves.