Van Gogh exhibition smashed National Gallery visitor records

The National Gallery’s Van Gogh exhibition, which recently closed after staying open throughout the last night to sate visitor demand, was the most popular ticketed exhibition in the gallery’s 200-year history.The exhibition, Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers has just closed with 334,589 people visiting the gallery to see it. Nearly 20,000 people visited during the last weekend alone – that one person every 10 seconds.
So popular was it that the exhibition’s catalogue even manag