The given graph illustrates the changes in the number of visitors to five different types of museums in the UK from 1999 to 2019, including art museums, science museums, culture museums, natural history museums and history museums.
As seen, art museums, science museums and natural history museums all had a trend of increasing throughout this period of time. Especially, art museums and science museums started ascending swiftly since 1999 with the number of 100,000 and 70,000, and finally to the peak of 150,000 and 130,000. In contrast, natural history museums had the slowest growth, increasing marginally from 50,000 to about 60,000 visitors over the same period.
Regarding the declining categories, history museums were popular in 1999 with roughly 80,000 visitors, but their numbers gradually decreased to around 65,000 by 2019. Culture museums also experienced a similar drop, falling from approximately 60,000 visitors in 1999 to just 45,000 in 2019. They were overtaken by natural history museums around 2005 and ended the period as the least visited museum type.
Overall, visitor numbers to art, science and natural history museums rose throughout the period, while those to history and culture museums fell. By 2019, art museums had become the most popular attraction, whereas culture museums experienced the steepest decline and became the least visited type.
