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

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