The top 10 Best museums to visit around the world, as ranked by TripAdvisor, were recently released. The annual rankings are based on the “quality and quantity” of reviews the museums inspired on the travel website. Each museum varies in its exhibitions from history to art making them unique in their own right with some of the most impressive acrylic showcases.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the world’s most favorite museum according to the latest TripAdvisor ranking, which only recently released its yearly ranking for attractions. First place ranking, Met, has once again taken out the honour which it has done twice before. Making it “the only museum to receive the valued ranking for three years in a row”, as stated in a press release by the museum.
A Slightly more surprising ranking (to art lovers at least) is the National WWII Museum in New Orleans (formerly the D-Day Museum) which ranks as the second favourite museum. Immersive exhibits such as “The Arsenal of Democracy,” about US war manufacturing, generated more excitement compared to the Impressionist treasures of Musee d’Orsay in Paris, which comes in at number three. 
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: The world famous art gallery clearly doesn’t disappoint, with endless traffic leaving visitors more than satisfied.
- National WWII Museum, New Orleans: Its collection of war relics and displays touch on all aspects America’s involvement in WWII. Bringing history to life is a tall order, yet this type of collection helps outline its significance.
- Musee d’Orsay, Paris: One might not think of the Musee d’Orsay as the most famous art museum in France, or even in Paris alone, but it looks like plenty of visitors are keen to still keen to give this already-famous gallery a visit.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago: About 1.5 million visitors a year come through to walk through art history. It’s the second largest art museum in the USA (after New York’s Metropolitan Museum) and is notorious for concentrating on the history and production of art as much as the art itself.
- State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace, St. Petersburg: The huge center of Russia’s art collection houses millions of pieces, from historical antiquities to artworks of the Romantic period. And the structure itself, the old Winter Palace, is at least as much of an exhibit in its own right as the contents it houses.
- National 9/11 Memorial and Museum, New York: The well-known museum and memorial to those deceased in ground zero of the World Trade Centre. Understandably, it would not get a whole lot of poor reviews.
- Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City: The anthropological museum would be the most visited in Mexico, and home to one of the world’s most expansive collections of Meso-America history, including the original 24 tonne stone-carved Aztec Sunstone.
- Acropolis Museum, Athens: The museum was originally built to house the relics uncovered during excavations on the Acropolis itself, however, the scale of findings immediately exceeded its capacity. Today it shows some of the best ancient Greek relics ever discovered and has even been constructed around attractions that could not be moved.
- Prado National Museum, Madrid: Spain’s national art museum, reckoned by specialists to get the best collection of European art from the world. A whole lot of work from Spain’s most famous painters, such as Francisco Goya and Hieronymus Bosch, are the highlight of the collection.
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London: Housing some of the world’s largest display showcase collection of art, antiques, relics, oddities, clothing and whatever else which may be called a culturally or historically significant knick-knack, with a group spanning almost the entirety of human history that is known.
