Michelangelo Makes the Met’s Top 10 List

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Tuesday that “Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer” had surpassed “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty” to become the 10th most visited exhibition in the museum’s history.

The exhibition, which ended Monday, drew 702,516 visitors over its three-month residency. The works by McQueen, a fashion designer, attracted 661,609 people between May 4 and Aug. 7, 2011.

Despite its manifest success, the collection of drawings, paintings, sculptures and other works by the Renaissance maestro did not threaten the museum’s top two exhibits. Both “Treasures of Tutankhamun,” which appeared at the museum for almost four months in 1978 and 1979, and “Mona Lisa,” which was up for less than a month in 1963, broke the 1 million visitor mark.

The record of the Tutankhamun exhibition is all the more impressive because the museum was usually only open six days a week between 1971 and 2013.

Here is the full list of the most popular exhibitions at the Met:

1. “Treasures of Tutankhamun” (Dec. 20, 1978 to April 14, 1979): 1,360,957 visitors.

2. “Mona Lisa” (Feb. 7 to March 4, 1963): 1,077,521 visitors.

3. “The Vatican Collections” (Feb. 26 to May 12, 1983): 896,743 visitors.

4. “Painters in Paris” (March 7, 2000 to Jan. 14, 2001): 883,620 visitors.

5. “China: Through The Looking Glass” (May 4 to Sept. 7, 2015): 815,992 visitors.

6. “Origins of Impressionism” (Sept. 27, 1994 to Jan. 8, 1995): 794,108 visitors.

7. “Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology” (May 5, 2016 to Sept. 5, 2016): 752,995 visitors.

8. “Horses of San Marco” (Feb. 1, 1980 to Aug. 31, 1980): 742,221 visitors.

9. “Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art” (April 27 to Aug. 15, 2010): 703,256 visitors.

10. “Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer” (Nov. 13, 2017 to Feb. 12, 2018): 702,516 visitors.