The bar chart illustrates the number of different visitors to a museum, namely adult visitors, under 15-year-old visitors, and special Exhibition visitors from 1997 to 2012.
Overall, although there were some minor fluctuations, the total number of visitors to this museum increased. It is also noteworthy that adult visitors was become the most popular visitor throughout the years, whereas the opposite was true in the case of their special exhibition counterparts.
In 1997, the number of adult visitors was 300,100. Over the following decade, their attendance shooted up significantly to reach a peak of 400,500 before witnessing a minimal dip by 20,000 in 2012. Despite the go up and down several times, this type of visitors still dominated the totals, which started at 448,100 visitors before climbing to a high of 525,200 in 2007. By the end of the period, the figure had fallen, reaching 504,300 visitors.
In contrast, 120,000 under-15-year-old visitors went to the museum at the beginning, followed by a steady drop to 82,300 in the final year.Special exhibition visitors followed a similar upward trend, albeit at a much lower rate, growing gradually from 28,000 initially to end the period at 42,000.