The bar chart provides information about the number of visitors in three distinct groups to a particular museum from 1997 to 2012.
Overall, the total number of people who visited the museum increased gradually over the given years, with adult visitors consistently contributing the highest. Additionally, although the number of people aged under 15 years old fell slightly, those in the adult group climbed notably throughout the period.
Initially, there were 300,000 adults visiting the museum. Afterward, this number rocketed to a high of 400,500 in 2007, then decreased marginally by 20,000 at the end of the period. Meanwhile, the number of children aged under 15 who visited the museum was 120,000 people in 1997, then it declined gradually to 82,300 people in 2012.
In 1997, the museum welcomed 448,100 people to appreciate its collections, this number steadily grew in the next years before reaching a high of 504,300 by 2012. During the period, the number of special exhibition visitors experienced a slight increase, beginning at 28,000 visitors in 1997 and finishing at 42,000 visitors in 2012.