Visitor Figures 2024

For Madrid's Prado museum, the good times just keep rolling

A Veronese show in May is set to be latest in long line of Renaissance Venice crowd-pleasers for the Spanish institution

Museum visitor figures, William Morris mania and Marguerite Matisse—podcast

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

Museums in southern Brazil still recovering after last year’s floods

Damage and destruction decimated visitor numbers to cultural events and institutions last year but optimism is high they will return in 2025

How many visitors is too many? Paris museums confront ‘over-attendance’

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

Exclusive | The world’s most-visited museums 2024: normality returns—for some

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

Comment | Scrapping DEI initiatives could damage US museums’ visitor numbers

As art institutions—particularly in Washington, DC—succumb to the White House’s anti-diversity directives, a veteran of the museum world warns of the dangers of giving in to the whims of the Trump administration

Revealed: British Museum’s visitor figures hit ten-year high

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