According to Alexa.com, an Amazon.com search engine that was originally developed by Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive, the top 10 of popular - most visited and most linked - art museums on the Web are:

1. Metropolitan Museum of Art
2. MoMA
3. Tate Online
4. Musée du Louvre
5. National Gallery of Art
6. The British Museum
7. The State Hermitage Museum
8. The National Gallery
9. National Portrait Gallery
10. Design Museum

Other famous museums:

Centre Pompidou (11), Guggenheim Museum (13), Museum del Prado (14), Walker Art Center (18), Rijksmuseum (26), Van Gogh Museum (27), Finnish National Gallery (75) en het Stedelijk Museum (103).

Source: Alexa.com

(Note: I omitted the first two in the list, Yale Center for British Art and the Smithsonian Institution, since they skew the list)

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