The line graph compares the number of visitors to five categories of museums in the UK between 1999 and 2019.
Overall, attendance figures for all types of museums increased, excepting for history museums and culture museums . During the period, art museums was the category attracted the most visitors.
Regarding museums with increasing visitor numbers, art museums consistently maintain their lead among the five different types of museums. Initially. this figure stood at approximately 100,000 people, then rose gradually to 150,00 in 2019. Similarly, science museums started with 70,000 and climbed significantly to 130,00, so visitor numbers at this were the second second ranked. Meanwhile, attendance figure for natural history museums exhibited an slight increase from about 50,00 to 60,00 visitors.
Turning to the museums that experienced an decline in visitor numbers, history museums anf culture museums were the familiar tendency. Fewer and fewer people visited history museums, dropping to nearly 70,000 in 2019. The number of people visited culture museums decreased dramatically to around 50,00 in the final year, and became least visited category.
