This article lists the most visited art museums in the world (i.e. all museums with any form of art on display, some museums such as the Natural History Museum are excluded). This list of 100 is based on "2010 worldwide museum attendance numbers" compiled by The Art Newspaper published in April 2011. The country with the highest number of visitors in the top 100 is the United Kingdom. The country with the most museums appearing in the top 100 is the United States. Several major art museums, such as the Palace Museum in Beijing, which annually draws 7 million visitors, the Musée d'Histoire de France in the Palace of Versailles with 5,659,606 annual visitors in 2009, the Vatican Museums of Rome, with 5,078,004 visitors in 2011,and the National Palace Museum in Taipei, with 3,441,238 visitors in 2010,were not included. Rank Museum City Country Visitor Count 1 Musée du Louvre Paris France 8,500,000 2 British Museum London United Kingdom 5,842,138 3 Metropolita