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

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

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

As restrictions ease, institutions are reconsidering the policy introduced during the pandemic as it could be putting off last-minute visitors

Annual financial accounts show extent of fall in visitor numbers at national museums

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

Exhibitions editor José da Silva breaks down the results from our Visitor Figures 2020 survey and digital expert Chris Unitt explains how museums have pivoted to digital

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