More than 46 million people flocked to French museums, monuments and stately homes last year—but social disparities are on the rise, new report says

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

Our exclusive Visitor Figures 2023 survey shows that many of the world’s leading art museums returned to their pre-pandemic attendance levels. But some, especially in the UK, are still missing millions of visitors

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

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

For the capital’s museums, historically so reliant on international tourists, recovery from the pandemic has been slow

As Russia leaves the world cultural stage following its invasion of Ukraine, we look at how its art institutions have reacted

The Paris museum has been struggling for years against over-attendance

Our 2021 Visitor Figures survey shows that institutions are largely failing to adopt the world's most popular social media platform but those that do are reaping the rewards

France’s status as a honeypot for tourists from Asia and the US has taken a huge hit, from which its cultural institutions are still reeling. Now the country’s museums hope that French and European visitors can restore their finances

While the pandemic has devastated the visitor numbers of many big-name museums, some medium-sized institutions are already thriving

The $17.4m scheme in Bihar has resulted in 33,000 young visitors to its main museum in Patna in a year

While attendance figures still have some way to go to reach pre-pandemic levels, fewer days of lockdown-related closures coupled with vaccine rollout programmes spelled good news for institutions around the world

Covid continued to impact on French museum visits, but the government provided a much-needed financial safety net

We asked English institutions to provide figures for the four-week period from 17 May to gauge current demand

Huntington Library in California and Crystal Bridges in Arkansas ascended to the top of our visitor figures list

We asked the people behind the Royal Academy’s Twitter, the Met’s Instagram, the Uffizi’s TikTok and the Van Gogh Museum’s Facebook account what 2020 was like for them

Major UK institutions lost 78% of their visitors due to the pandemic last year, our research reveals

The Art Newspaper's annual survey shows how the pandemic had a devastating impact on museums around the world—but there were some silver linings

As venues experiment with selling virtual exhibition tours, talks and workshops online, the key to success may be an emphasis on the expert, bespoke and exclusive

Spurred on by the pandemic, several institutions are inviting art lovers to choose works for display

Search data from 84 countries last year shows that Leonardo, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo were among the world's most popular artists