The bar chart depicts how many visitors in various groups to a museum from 1997 to 2012.
Overall the number of adult visitors and special exhibition visitors witnessed a global upward trend, meanwhile, the age under 15 who visited were gradually decreased over time.
In 1997, the visitors in adulthood started at 300,100 which was 10 times compared to the special exhibition visitors. There was a surge of 100,000 in the first 10 years of the data of adult visitors until 2007 when the figure peaked at 400,000, after which it gradually decreased from 400,000 to 380,000 in 2012. The statistics of exceptional exhibition visitors started at 28,000 in 1997, before one and a half times growing to 42,000 until 15 years later.
After starting at 120,000 in 1997, the number of visitors who aged under equal over ⅓ the figure of adult one. The period between 1997 and 2012 saw a dramatic decline of 38,000, which reached a trough of 82,000 in the last year.