Band 8+: The line chart below shows the number of visitors (in thousands) to three different museums in a European city from 2010 to 2020. Your task: Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Years: 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020 Museums: Art Museum, History Museum, Science Museum Number of visitors (thousands): as shown in the chart Note: You can describe trends, increases, decreases, and comparisons.

The line graph illustrates the number of visitors, measured in thousands, to three museums – the Science Museum, the Art Museum and the History Museum – between 2010 and 2020.

Overall, the numbers of visitors to the Art Museum and the Science Museum increased throughout the period, whereas the figure for the History Museum declined steadily. The Science Museum became the most popular destination by the end of the period.

Looking first at the Art Museum and the Science Museum, the figure for the Art Museum stood at approximately 50,000 in 2010 before climbing to 80,000 in 2020. The Science Museum also experienced an increase, rising from 30,000 in 2010 to exactly 55,000 in 2016, before rising sharply to around 95,000 in 2020.

Turning to the remaining destination, the History Museum declined steadily from roughly 90,000 in 2010 to approximately 60,000 in 2016, before dropping further to 40,000 by 2020. By this point, the Science Museum attracted considerably more visitors than the History Museum.