Band 8+: The table below shows the numbers of visitors to Ashdown Museum during the year before and the year after it was refurbished. The charts show the result of surveys asking visitors how satisfied they were with their visit,during the same two periods. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The table displays how many people visited Ashdown Museum in the year prior to and the year following its refurbishment, while the pie charts illustate the responses to survays of visitor satisfaction during the same two years.

Overall, visitor numbers and satisfaction both increased following the refurbishment.

There were 74000 people visiting the museum in the year before it was refurbished, and this number climbed significantly to 92000 in the year after refurbishment. Moving on to visitor satisfaction, those who rated their experience as dissatisfied made up the greatest proportion of respondents in the year before the museum was refurbished, at 40%. However, this number showed a dramatic decline to only 15% after the refurbishment. The proportion of respondents who were very dissatisfied with their visit also fell, to only 5%. The propertions of those who responded satisfied and very satisfied, in comparison, both went up in the year after the refurbishment, to 40% and 35% respectively, and these were the two most common responses that year.