The bar chart depicts how many visitors in various groups visited a museum from 1997 to 2012.
Overall the number of adult visitors and special exhibition visitors witnessed a global upward trend, meanwhile, a downward tendency was obvious in the case of the visitors who were aged under 15. Notably, the museum’s main client file was the adult visitors in all the reported years.
In 1997, the visitors in adulthood started at 300,100 which was 10 times compared to the number of 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. There were 28,000 special visitors paid a visit to the museum in 1997, after which, 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 were aged under 15 equaled over one-third the figure of adult visitors. A dramatic decline of 38,000 were saw in the under aged 15 visitors between 1997 and 2012, which reached a trough of 82,000 in the last year.