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

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

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

Our global Visitor Figures survey reveals huge growth in followings online as physical doors shut to the public in 2020

Despite kicking off 2020 with a record-breaking Leonardo exhibition, like many museums around the world, the Parisian institution was adversely affected by coronavirus lockdowns

Tokyo National Museum’s show on Chinese artist Yan Zhenqing ranks 15th in our latest visitor attendance survey despite contentious loan from Taipei museum

The exhibition on the global phenomenon was the largest ever to be staged outside Japan