British Museum is top of tourist list

The British Museum has become the most visited attraction in the UK, partly because of the success of its First Emperor exhibition. The Museum’s annual report, out on July 1st, revealed it attracted 6.04 million visitors in 2007, an increase of over one million from the year before. More than 850,000 people visited the Chinese Terracotta Army exhibition before it closed in April. The 2007 visitor figures for other top cultural venues were 5.5 million for Blackpool Pleasure Beach and 5.23 million for the Tate Modern.