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Tate Modern Tops 5.3m Visitors

January 8, 2013 by Marion Maneker

London’s Evening Standard reports that the Tate Modern has surpassed expectations with 5.3m visitors last year, 463,000 of those came to the Olympics-inspired Damien Hirst retrospective:

The figures support Tate Modern’s reputation as the world’s most visited modern art gallery. Two million visitors a year were predicted when it opened in 2000.

Tate bosses said the gallery’s older sister, the original Tate now called Tate Britain, also fared well despite disruption from a £45 million refurbishment programme which is due for completion this year. The Millbank site saw 1.53 million visitors last year — a 4.3 per cent increase on the figures for the same period in 2011.

Damien Hirst’s pickled cows help Tate Modern pull in record 5.3m visitors (Evening Standard)

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