Our global Visitor Figures survey reveals huge growth in followings online as physical doors shut to the public in 2020

Museum’s director notes that it may take until 2025 for tourists to return in force to New York

Despite kicking off 2020 with a record-breaking Leonardo exhibition, like many museums around the world, the Parisian institution was adversely affected by coronavirus lockdowns

After months without income due to coronavirus closures, new survey shows that museums are operating with just 25% of previous visitor numbers

Jean-Luc Martinez believes that capitalising on the museum's permanent collection will be key to recovery

Failure to seize this opportunity to make changes would be a graver error than any breach of etiquette

Tokyo National Museum’s show on Chinese artist Yan Zhenqing ranks 15th in our latest visitor attendance survey despite contentious loan from Taipei museum

Visitor numbers at some of the world’s most popular art venues have nosedived and uncertainty for the future remains

The exhibition on the global phenomenon was the largest ever to be staged outside Japan

Ai Weiwei was a hit in Brazil, records were broken in London and Paris—but is this the final year of museum visitor growth?

Sleep in Hopper’s motel room or dive into Monet’s pond—museums are increasingly going beyond traditional exhibition formats to attract visitors

The cost of producing crowd-pulling shows can outstrip the cash they bring in. Here are some of the downsides of being just too popular

Increasingly, the digital sphere is another frontier where institutions battle it out for the attention of culture-seekers

They might not always draw the crowds that flock to malls and amusement parks, but museums are seen as valuable additions to communities—even by people who have never stepped foot in one

Londoners stuck to the tried-and-tested and New Yorkers showed their patriotic sides, while Parisians were drawn in by golden treasures

Jean-Michel Basquiat brought in big crowds in Paris—but who beat him to claim the top spot?

The hype surrounding major anniversary celebrations saw big turnouts for Bruegel, Leonardo and Rembrandt

Female artists dominated the top ranks of last year's photography shows

Big names such as Munch, Klimt and Van Gogh dominate the rankings, but a couple of lesser-known artists did surprisingly well

Which Impressionist made the biggest impression in this category?

Last year also saw record attendances at both Tate Modern and Tate Britain

Russia has banned Chinese citizens from entering the country, slashing attendance at cultural institutions in Moscow and St Petersburg

Previous highest figure was 540,000 people for the Eugène Delacroix show in 2018

Multimedia collective's first permanent gallery in Japan was the most popular single-artist museum of 2018, beating Picasso and Van Gogh museums

Reservations will become mandatory at the world's most visited museum by the end of the year

Over 300,000 visitors had been missed in the financial year 2018/19 because of 'incorrect light levels caused by a broken light fitting'

Swiss museum extended the show to accommodate visitors to Europe for Art Basel and the Venice Biennale

The change has been a long-time wish for some leaders at the Los Angeles museum

The Canadian institution aims to double its membership and expand its audience with one-year pilot programme

Exhibitions in Russia of homegrown artists attract proportionally greater numbers than blockbusters in other countries