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Prague - The most visited exhibition of visual arts last year was a showcase of art from the time of the last Luxembourg rulers, organized by the Administration of Prague Castle in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum in New York. The exhibition at the Picture Gallery of Prague Castle saw 1,055 visitors daily and lasted for 95 days. It also took first place in absolute numbers - a total of 100,245 people visited it.
If it weren't for the rules limiting the number of people in the exhibition, the number of visitors would probably have been even higher. However, the age and rarity of the exhibits prevented the organizers from allowing more people into the exhibition at once; many interested parties were unable to attend. When its premiere took place a year ago in New York, it was seen by 170,000 people over three months, with a daily attendance of 2,000 viewers. The Metropolitan Museum, however, is generally an institution with higher attendance and cannot be compared to Czech institutions.
The second exhibition with the highest daily attendance last year in the Czech Republic was a showcase by photographer Antonín Kratochvíl, organized by the Leica Gallery in a traveling train. It saw 495 visitors daily, lasted 92 days, and a total of 45,540 people viewed the photographs. The third most visited exhibition was the graphic design biennial in Brno organized by the Moravian Gallery. Over 91 days, the exhibition was seen by 33,176 persons across several venues, with a daily average of 365 people.
ČTK received visitor data from the House of Arts of the City of Brno, the Egon Schiele Art Center, the Gallery of the Capital City of Prague, the Rudolfinum Gallery, the Leica Gallery, the Moravian Gallery in Brno, the National Gallery in Prague, the Municipal House, and the Administration of Prague Castle.
The fourth, fifth, and sixth places were occupied by exhibitions organized by the National Gallery in Prague. The exhibition of works by František Ženíšek was seen by 32,677 people over four months, with a daily attendance of 327 viewers. The exhibitions of works by Běla Kolářová and Zorka Ságlová had almost the same attendance, with both being viewed by over 17,000 viewers at the Trade Fair Palace; Kolářová's exhibition had a daily average of 278 people, while Ságlová's had 273 people.
In seventh place is the exhibition of works by Rudolf Kremlička organized by the Gallery of the Capital City of Prague. Over 64 days, it was seen by 15,576 people, or 243 persons per day; the exhibition will last until the end of January. In eighth place is the showcase of works from the Grand Prix of the Architects' Association - it had a daily average of 234 people. With a daily average of 220 people, there are three exhibitions organized by the Egon Schiele Art Center in Český Krumlov in ninth place - over 177 days, the exhibitions of Alberto Giacometti, Ernst Scheidegger, and Eva Prokopcová were visited by 38,941 people; the gallery does not sell tickets for individual exhibitions.
The tenth place was taken by a reprise of the exhibition about the visual culture of the 1960s "The Pope Smoked Weed," which was seen daily by 211 people at the Moravian Gallery in Brno. Several exhibitions follow with approximately the same daily average: at the same institution, the exhibition of photographs "Maritime Diary of Count Dubský" was successful, with 209 people viewing it daily.
Just three viewers less is the daily average of two exhibitions at the Rudolfinum Gallery in Prague - the photographs of Václav Jirásek "Industria" and portraits by Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra. Just above 200 viewers daily was also the joint exhibition of Petr Písařík and Milan Perič, which took place at the Trade Fair Palace and was already viewed daily by 201 viewers.
Even in the mentioned established exhibition institutions, other showcases apart from visual arts exhibitions occasionally take place. If these events were also counted among the exhibitions, the most visited event of last year would be the presentation of works by fashion designer Blanka Matragi at the Municipal House. The month-long showcase was seen by 80,000 people, with a daily attendance of 2,963 persons.
Data on attendance are also published by the organizers of some outdoor exhibitions - reportedly over a million people saw the exhibition of photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand at Kampa in Prague. The daily average of visitors, according to this data, would be over 11,000 people; however, because tickets are not sold for the exhibition, it is difficult to assess how many people went to Kampa for the exhibition and how many for a walk. Similarly, many people walked through Wenceslas Square, where for several years now, a large-scale sculpture exhibition "Sculpture Grande" has been held.
The most visited exhibition of 2005 was a showcase by photographer Sebastião Salgado, with a daily average of 746 viewers. Aside from the difference for the first place, which was caused by an exceptional project at the Castle, last year's daily attendance of the top ten exhibitions was approximately the same as in the previous year.
The numbers of visitors to Czech galleries cannot be compared with large European or overseas institutions. The most visited British cultural institution is the National Gallery with five million guests annually; the daily average amounts to approximately 13,000 people. The global ranking of individual exhibitions by attendance, also calculated according to daily attendance, has been led for several years by Asian institutions. In 2004 and 2005, the Tokyo National Museum ranked first. In 2005, its leadership was ensured by an exhibition of a Japanese painter from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries with a daily attendance of 9,436 people. All exhibitions in the top ten of the ranking compiled by the British magazine The Art Newspaper have a daily attendance exceeding 5,000 people.