Museum rankings based on their attendance (number of visitors or number of followers on the Internet) offer a particularly revealing picture of the balance of power actually taking place on the global scene. Even though Western countries—owners of the main superstar museums—still hold a dominant position, a certain degree of progress can be perceived, thus illustrating the competition that countries and their cities and regions are engaged in to develop their own economies. Through a geopolitical analysis of that situation, this article shows the ever-strong influence of a certain idea of Western culture, but also the considerable ongoing transformations of the power relations that are linked to it.