The line graph depicted illustrates the proportion of people of different age group going to museum at least once a year between 1980 and 2010 .
Overall , the 50s were the most likely to visit a museum , while the youngest group were the least likely .The popularity of visiting among 15-24 and 50s age group witnessed an upward trend , while the opposite was true for 25-34 and 35-49 age group .
Looking at the youngest and oldest age group , around 48% of the 50s visiting museum annualy and about 20% of the 15-24 age group in 1980 . Over the following ten years , both of the youngest and oldest age group increased significantly , from about 20% to around 25-26% ( youngest age group ) and from 48% to nearly 50% ( oldest age group ) . This trend followed by a steadily declined , it was clearly that the youngest group fluctuationed around 1-2% from 1990 to 2005 , then reaching just more than 21% in 2010 . The oldest group is the same as youngest group , declined significantly from nearly 50% to 41% between 1990 and 2010 , lowest than the starting point .
In contrast , both 2534 and 35-49 age group stood at around 38-39% in 1980 . Over the next ten years , Both figure dropped significantly to nearly 30% ( lowest rate during most of the period ) . Then , both age group increased significantly , to nearly 40% ( 25-34 age group ) and around 37% ( 35-49 age group ) in 1995 . Over the following fifteen years , both figure maintained relative stability .