The Uffizi is Italy's best-loved museum (but 13th in the world). Here is Tripadvisor's ranking

The Uffizi in Florence wins the 2018 edition of Tripadvisor’s Travellers’ Choice Museums Award, the accolade that each year honors the museums most loved by users of the world’s most popular travel review platform. The podium is rounded out by the Egyptian Museum, which takes second place, and the Vatican Museums (which Tripadvisor considers an Italian museum), which takes the bronze medal. Florence and Rome are the most awarded cities, each with three museums each (again, if you consider the Vatican Museums “Roman”) in the top ten. The top ten rankings are completed as follows: 4th Academy Gallery, Florence; 5th Borghese Gallery, Rome; 6th National Museum of Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome; 7th National Museum of Cinema, Turin; 8th National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Naples; 9th Opera del Duomo Museum, Florence; 10th Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice.

Italy, however, does not shine globally: only the Uffizi and the Egyptian Museum make it onto the list of the world’s 25 best-loved museums. Recognition, for 2018, goes to the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, while silver and bronze for the 9/11 Memorial in New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, respectively. The ranking is completed as follows: 4th British Museum, London; 5th Prado, Madrid; 6th Acropolis Museum, Athens; 7th Louvre, Paris; 8th National World War II Museum, New Orleans; 9th Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City; 10th War Remains Museum, Ho Chi Minh; 11th National Gallery, London; 12th Vasa Museum, Stockholm; 13th Uffizi, Florence; 14th Rijksmueum, Amsterdam; 15th Hermitage, St. Petersburg; 16th Van Gogh Museum, Netherlands; 17th Art Institute, Chicago; 18th Egyptian Museum, Turin; 19th New Zealand Museum, Wellington; 20th Larco Museum, Lima; 21st Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Phnom Penh; 22nd Qin Museum of Terracotta Warriors and Horses, Xi’an; 23rd Gold Museum, Bogota; 24th Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Monument, Jerusalem; 25th Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, Brazil.

It does not fare any better in Europe, where the Uffizi stops at eighth place and the Egyptian Museum at 12th. In the top 25, Italy is represented, in addition to the Uffizi and Egyptian Museum, only by the Vatican Museums, Galleria dell’Accademia and Galleria Borghese. In the European ranking, the winner is always the Musée d’Orsay, ahead of the British Museum and the Prado. These are the following positions: 4th Acropolis Museum, Athens; 5th Louvre, Paris; 6th National Gallery, London; 7th Vasa Museum, Stockholm; 8th Uffizi, Florence; 9th Rijksmueum, Amsterdam; 10th Hermitage, St. Petersburg; 11th Van Gogh Museum, Netherlands; 12th Egyptian Museum, Turin; 13th Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Oswiecim; 14th Victoria and Albert Museum, London; 15th Natural History Museum, London; 16th National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh; 17th Vatican Museums, Vatican City; 18th Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence; 19th Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; 20th The Little Museum of Dublin, Dublin; 21st Irish Whiskey Museum, Dublin; 22nd Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Valencia; 23rd Topography of Terror, Berlin; 24th Galleria Borghese, Rome; 25th Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao.

The winners were decided by an algorithm that compared thousands of reviews considering their quantity and quality, over a 12-month period. “With the summer season drawing to a close,” said Valentina Quattro, TripAdvisor spokeswoman for Italy, “the opportunities to devote to artistic and cultural visits are increasing. As shown by the year-on-year growth data of museum ticket purchases on TripAdvisor, more and more Italians are choosing to visit museums around the world, registering a strong growth (+199%), greater than both the global (+40%) and European (+71%) growth.”

Image, Giacomo Zaganelli, image from the Grand Tourismo project carried out at the Uffizi (2018).

The Uffizi is Italy's best-loved museum (but 13th in the world). Here is Tripadvisor's ranking

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