No African museum made world's most popular museums list

The TEA/AECOM Global Attractions Attendance Report's museum rankings for 2015 has been released and no African museum made the top 20 cut.

The 2015 museum ranking saw Paris' Louvre museum land on the number 1 spot for the 4th year running with 8.7 million visitors.

Meanwhile London had a total of 6 museums in the top 20 spot, which was higher than any other city on the list.

Washington DC was the next with 4 museums, and Beijing had 3 while New York and Paris tied with 2 museums each.

Despite the many historic museums on the continent, Africa failed to make an appearance on the top 20 spot.

See the top 10 most visited museums in the world, according to the museum index below:

1. Louvre, Paris, France (8,700,000 visitors)

2. National Museum of China, Beijing, China (7,290,000)

3. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., United States (6,900,000)

4. British Museum, London, United Kingdom (6,821,000)

5. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States (6,300,000)

6. Vatican Museums, Vatican, Vatican City (6,002,000)

7. Shanghai Science & Technology Museum, Shanghai, China (5,948,000)

8. National Gallery, London, United Kingdom (5,908,000)

9. National Palace Museum (Taiwan), Taipei, Taiwan (5,288,000)

10. Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom (5,284,000)