Attendance: FC Barcelona top museum of European clubs with 1.51 million visitors in 2013

News Tank Football - Paris - News #26457 - Published on
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FC Barcelona (Liga BBVA) is the club with Europe's busiest football museum with 1.51 million visitors in 2013, according to figures collected by News Tank on 23/09/2014. The FC Barcelona Museum outdraws that of Real Madrid CF (Liga BBVA, 900,000 visitors in 2013) and the museum of Manchester United FC (Barclays Premier League, 320,000 visitors in 2013).

The FC Barcelona Museum was the fourth most visited museum in Spain in 2013, behind the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid (3.2 million visitors), the Prado Museum in Madrid (2.3 million visitors) and the Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres (1.6 million visitors).

Attendance of football musuems in Europe in 2013

Sources: News Tank Football

  • 43 museums dedicated to club football activities in Europe were counted by News Tank.
  • A club which has a museum is, on average, 104 years old and won its national championship 17 times.
  • 1.8 million people visited (not counting matches) the Emirates Stadium (London) and the Arsenal Museum (Barclays Premier League), the London club indicated to News Tank on…
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