DCMS has released visitor figures for 15 sponsored museums for the period April 2015 – March 2016.
In 2015/16 there were 47.6 million visits to DCMS-sponsored Museums. This was a decline of 6.2 per cent on 2014/15, but only a decline of 2.8 per cent when Tyne and Wear Museums are excluded from 2014/15.
In 2015/16, there were 7.9 million child visits to DCMS-sponsored Museums. This was a 14.4 per cent decrease on 2014/15 but only a decline of 1.8 per cent when Tyne and Wear Museums and the Horniman Museum are excluded from 2014/15.
The most visited museum was the British Museum, with 6.9 million visits, followed by the Tate Gallery Group (comprising of four branches) with 6.7 million visits.