The Met, which houses art made over the course of 5,000 years and boasts 441,048 art records online, welcomed a record 6.7 million people to its three locations in New York City during the 2016 fiscal year.
Last year, the country welcomed a record 3 million visitors.
In the first seven months of 2013, Spain welcomed a record 34 million foreigners, a rise of 4 percent from a year earlier.
New York City welcomed a record 52 million tourists in 2012, a 2.1 percent increase over 2011, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced Monday, crediting the city's cultural institutions and its reputation as the safest major American city for the record.
Now, Sweden is actively trying to keep people out, while German Chancellor Angela Merkel is under pressure from critics within her own centre-right coalition to do the same after the country welcomed a record 1 million asylum seekers this year.
We welcomed a record 1.3 million people and had really positive feedback to our exhibitions, our re-created neolithic houses and the improvements to the landscape around the stones themselves.
Tate Modern – in fourth position – welcomed a record 5.78 million visitors, boosted by its Matisse exhibition, while Oxford's Ashmolean Museum saw numbers swell by 15% thanks to the popularity of the exhibitions of the work of Francis Bacon, Henry Moore and Cezanne.
Labour MP Louise Ellman welcomed the "record" spending planned, but said: "Treasury statistics demonstrate that for too long this spending has been focused on London.
Last year, the county welcomed a record 45.5 million visitors.
That fall, President Bill Clinton welcomed a record number of Heads Of State to The UN Millennium Summit.
