According to our 2025 Visitor Figures survey, the Seoul location of the museum is attracting more international guests

Danish government reforms have resulted in increased funds for museums, but some question the equity of grants based on footfall

Our annual survey shows that some of the world’s most venerable institutions are still struggling to attract the number of visitors they had before Covid, but there is enthusiasm for new museums, and in regions such as Asia and Latin America

Meanwhile, London’s Natural History Museum overtakes British Museum as most-visited attraction in the UK

Rockbund Art Museum faced complaints after first making the change, but its director says audiences have since been “transformed”

The museum group has shared internal research with The Art Newspaper that indicates one key demographic shift

Capitalising on the success of Tate Modern Lates, the gallery will begin opening until 9pm on Fridays and Saturdays

The museum reported that 570,537 tickets were purchased for the show, which closed in April

Analysing the highs and lows of our recent attendance survey, plus a tour of a show exploring how the UK’s most famous Victorian designer ”went viral”, and a chat about the ways Henri Matisse’s daughter shaped his life and art

Visitors have streamed back after Covid-19, but the influx has been a double-edged sword, forcing some institutions to consider their long-term sustainability

A new museum in Shanghai leaps into our top ten and European museums continue their strong performance, but our exclusive annual survey finds that some British institutions are still lagging behind

While other UK institutions continue to struggle, the British Museum received 6.5 million visitors in 2024, The Art Newspaper's annual visitor figures survey has revealed

Overall visits were down on 2022, but organisers report an uptick in attendees from underrepresented groups

Security measures and transport upheaval prompted 22% decrease in attendance at the world's most visited museum

While artists have decried the platform’s shift beyond still images, institutions are getting on board

Institutions including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art have let staff go

Sophisticated technology is helping institutions count people but it also has the capability of tracking demographic data, ensuring people are well behaved and even detecting if visitors are enjoying themselves

Shows at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh Museum were huge hits last year but managing visitors—and staff—proved challenging

In 2023, many of the world’s major museums equaled—or surpassed—their 2019 attendance figures. However, some UK institutions are still lagging behind, finds The Art Newspaper’s annual survey

The church, which has undergone an extensive renovation, welcomed more than six months’ worth of visitors in the first three weeks after the work was completed

The Art Fund also reveals a drop in teachers taking students to institutions since the pandemic

Beating the most popular paid-for exhibition on home turf, it has been a big win for the museum—but ethical questions linger

The museum narrowly beat the Met Fifth Avenue in New York into second place in 2022

The New York institution, usually the most popular art museum in the US, was overtaken in 2022 by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC

Our exclusive Visitor Figures 2022 survey shows that numbers in Paris and Seoul were almost back to normal last year, while other major centres such as London struggled to hit pre-pandemic levels

Mixed messages and time slotted tickets could be deterring some people

Paris institution tops our visitor figures survey yet again, while the city’s other museums do well too

The new Hong Kong museum attracted more than 2 million people in its first full year

We look at how the 100 most-visited museums in our Visitor Figures survey performed online

For much of 2022, Chinese cities were either in lockdown or braced for one