TripAdvisor has chosen the best museum in the world in 2016

Trip Advisor, the largest travel site in the world has found and ranked the best museums in the world, based on experiences accumulated by visitors worldwide who have left impressions on their online platform in the last 12 months. The coveted title of best museum in the world was awarded for the second consecutive year to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, writes dailymail.co.uk.

First place: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is one of the largest and most impressive art museums in the world. Its collections include more than 2 million works of art, covering 5,000 years of worldwide culture, from prehistory time to the present ones, from every corner of the planet. A visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York can reveal a small part of a multitude of cultures such as Egyptian, American or European.

Second place: The Art Institute in Chicago. The collection of the Art Institute of Chicago comprises over 260 000 works of art such as impressionist and post-impressionist paintings, over 30 paintings by Claude Monet, works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cezanne and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Third place: Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia. Built on the banks of the Neva in St. Petersburg, the Hermitage Museum was founded in 1764 by Empress Catherine II, who wanted to show the greatness of Russia. Over time, the Winter Palace has been the home for more royalty, like Peter the Great, Empress Anna, Empress Elizabeth, Catherine II, or Tsars Paul I, Alexander I and Nicholas I.

The first of the top ten positions are occupied by other museums such as: 4. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France; The National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico; Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain; British Museum, London, UK; Acropolis Museum Athens, Greece.