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
Figures for the first half of 2023 show an increase over the year before, although still below their pre-Covid peaks
Big museums are missing a trick by refusing to embrace the youth- and fun- oriented platform
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
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 new Art Explora 'Mobile Museum' is on a ten-week tour in the north of England to make art more accessible
The Paris museum has been struggling for years against over-attendance
We asked English institutions to provide figures for the four-week period from 17 May to gauge current demand
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
Our global Visitor Figures survey reveals huge growth in followings online as physical doors shut to the public in 2020
Visitor numbers at some of the world’s most popular art venues have nosedived and uncertainty for the future remains
Previous highest figure was 540,000 people for the Eugène Delacroix show in 2018
Free entry—plus coffee and madeleines—promised for nocturnal visitors in a move that will allow an extra 30,000 people to see the exhibition
Electronic visas pave the way for ever greater visitors numbers, creating major logistical problems at Tsarskoe Selo and the Hermitage
Exhibition of the late French designer had 594,000 visitors overall but was on for seven months
We speak to the Bulgarian-born artist about his grand project for the Serpentine, and look at our annual survey of visitor figures
Asian art is in the ascendancy globally, while in Europe, Salvador Dalí reigns supreme
The largest conservation body in Europe
The verbatim account of the committee’s hearings which took place last March makes depressing reading
A National Audit Office Report concludes that visitors are discouraged from visiting the institution because of its “highbrow” image
V&A edges toward the cutting edge—and commerce
One year after the acclaimed opening, the director of New York’s Guggenheim talks about the Bilbao Guggenheim, his money-raising and his new expansion plans Spanish commentators admire the building and its success with the public but some chafe at its artistic dependence on the New York museum