The bar chart illustrates the number of three museum visitor categories including adults, people aged under 15, and special exhibition attendees from 1997 to 2012. Overall, while the visitors aged under 15 experienced a moderate decrease, the number of the two remaining types increased. In addition, the ranking among all visitor groups remained unchanged over the period mentioned.
The group of adults recorded around 300000 people in the first five-year period. It then surged to over 400000 by 2007 before dropping to 380000 in the following 5 years. Furthermore, after seeing the lowest number of visitors throughout the timeframe, at 28000 in 1997, the group of special exhibition tourists climbed steadily to 42000 by 2012.
By contrast, in the starting year, the museum welcomed 120000 tourists aged under 15. This figure then rose gradually over the period surveyed and obtained approximately 82000 by 2012, maintaining the second-ranked in terms of the number of people visiting the museum among the three categories. Notably, there was a soar in the popularity of the museum, from nearly 488000 guests in 1997, this data fell modestly to over 441000in the next 5 years before reaching the highest number of visitors at around 525000. Finally, this figure decreased back to around 504000.