The line graph illustrates the number of people visiting to five different types of museums in the United Kingdom between 1999 and 2007, measured in thousands.
Overall, the number of visitors to art, science and natural history museums experienced an upward trajectory, while the opposite trend was true for that of culture and history museums. Notably, art museums consistently held the highest share in popularity throughout the period shown.
In 1991, 100 thousand people visited art museums, which outstripped the second-highest category, history museums, by a significant margin of around 25 thousand visitors. During the same time, the figure for science museum stood at about 70 thousand visitors, while the number of people visiting to culture museums was approximately 60 thousand people. The lowest figure was seen in natural history museums, just over 50 thousand visitors.
By the end of the period, the number of visitors to art museums increased steadily to reach a peak of 150 thousand people, while the figure for science museums surpassed history museums in 1993, before rising gradually to 130 thousand visitors in 2007. A similar trend was witnessed in the number of visitors to natural history museums, which overtaken culture museums and then ended up at over 60 thousand visitors. By contrast, there was a downward trend in history and culture museums, both dropping by around 20 thousand visitors.