The bar chart illustrates the number of three groups who visited a particular museum from 1997 to 2012.
As can be seen, the number of adults visiting the museum was consistently the highest throughout the years, whereas the opposite was true for visitors to special exhibitions.
In 1997, the museum welcomed only 28,000 people visiting special exhibition, then gradually attracted more in the following years, reaching 42,000 visitors in 2012. In contrast, the number of visitors aged under 15 noticeably declined throughout the period, from 120,000 to 82,300.
Regarding the largest group, there were 300,100 adults taking a visit to the museum in 1997. The figure then peaked at 400,500 in 2007, before falling slightly to 380,000 in 2012. The total attendance at the museum witnessed a growth of 56,200 visitors, starting from 448,100 people in 2007 and rising to 504,300 at the end of the period.