Two Scottish museums have been named among the best rated in the UK.

The Travellers' Choice awards for Museums, organised by travel website TripAdvisor, have included the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, and the National Museum of Scotland (NMS), Edinburgh, in the top ten.

The British Museum has been named as the best rated museum in the UK.

Award winners were determined using an "algorithm that took into account the quantity and quality of reviews and ratings for museums worldwide, gathered over a 12-month period" the organisers said.

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In a list of museums in Europe, the National Museum of Scotland came 24th, as well as 7th in the UK poll.

Other UK winners this year include Titanic Belfast and Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum which take eighth and ninth place in the UK respectively.

For the second year running the leading museum in the world, according to TripAdvisor's method of ranking, is The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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The top ten traveller's choice museums in the UK are the British Museum, the V&A and the National Gallery in London, the Natural History Museum in London, the Churchill War Rooms in London, the National Railway Museum, the NMS, Titanic in Belfast, Kelvingrove and York Castle.

In the world poll, the British Museum comes eighth, behind the Met, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hermitage in St Petersburg, the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City, the 9/11 Museum and Memorial in New York, and the Prado in Madrid, Spain.

Recently the NMS said there have been nearly 500,000 visits to its site on Chambers Street in Edinburgh since its new galleries of applied art, design, fashion, science and technology opened in July, an increase of more than 30 per cent on the same period last year.

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The museum unveiled the £14.1 million redevelopment this summer.