The Louvre is back.
After being toppled from its spot as the world's most visited museum in 2016, the Paris institution has regained its No. 1 position.
The venerable museum -- home to masterpieces including "Venus de Milo," the "Winged Victory of Samothrace" and Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" -- welcomed 8.1 million visitors in 2017, a nearly 10% increase over its 2016 attendance numbers.
Those figures were released in the 12th annual Theme Index and Museum Index collaboration between the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) and AECOM.
To read more on CNN:
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/most-popular-museums-world-2017/index.html
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