the bie chart illustrates how many visitors in three distinct categories including Adult, under 15-year-old and Special Exhibition people went to the museum from 1997 to 2012.
Overall, there was an increase in the numder of visitors who were Special Exhibition and mature. In addition,the figures for Special Exhibition and adult was the lowest and highest perspectively.
The number of visitors aged under 15 began at 120,000 people in 1997, then declined to 110,000 people in 2002. By contrast, the figures for adult and Special Exhibition visitors started at 300,100 and 28,000 units, after which they slightly rose to 302,200 and 29,200 in that order in the next 5 years.
From 2002 to 2012, the number of Adult visitors reached a peak at 400,500 people in 2007, before decreasing to 380,000 people at the end of the period. Special Exhibition visitors continued rising to 37,700 in 2007 and 42,000 people in 2012. An adverse trend can be seen in the figures for under 15-year-old, declining to 87,000 visitors in the following 5 years and end the course of the period at 82,300.