Michelangelo exhibition makes ‘most attended’ list with over 7 lakh visitors

‘Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer’ ended Monday after drawing 702,516 visitors over its three-month residency.

New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art says its recently concluded Michelangelo exhibit is the 10th-most visited exhibition in the museum’s history.

‘Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer’ ended Monday after drawing 702,516 visitors over its three-month residency. The New York Times reports it surpassed attendance for the 2011 exhibition “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty,” which drew 661,609 visitors.

One of the paintings at the exhibition. (Youtube)

However, the Michelangelo exhibit did not come close to surpassing the attendance records set by the museum’s top two exhibits. “Treasures of Tutankhamun,” a five month-exhibition of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh’s artifacts in the 1970s, and Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” broke the million visitor mark.

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