Current visitor numbers at Bloomsbury are a measure of the Museum’s enormous success, but they create severe points of congestion and put a strain on the building.

Nearly 6.9 million people visited the Museum in 2015/16 – its most successful year ever, and a rise of 3 percent over the previous year. The attractions were many.

Mar 20, 2025 · The last time that visits topped 6.8 million was in 2015. The museum attributed the increase to an uptick in international visitors and the popularity of the temporary exhibitions …

Mar 7, 2016 · The British Museum continued to be the most popular visitor attraction overall for the 9th year running with 6,820,686 visitors and remaining in 2nd place was the National …

Aug 15, 2016 · The British Museum Announces Most Successful Year Ever 2015/16 was the British Museum’s most successful year ever with nearly 6.9 million visitors (6,853,540) and a …

Mar 7, 2016 · More than 65 million people visited attractions in London in 2015. Some 6.82 million people visited the British Museum last year, up from 6.7 million the year before.

Aug 12, 2025 · While they each offer a unique experience, the British Museum, Natural History Museum, and Tate Modern have something important in common. They all consistently rank …

Mar 1, 2013 · Monthly provisional statistics on the number of visits to the DCMS-sponsored museums and galleries are published here every quarter.

Over the next five years, the British Museum's figures climbed significantly to just above 6 million, overtaking the Natural History Museum, whose visitors fell sharply to about 3 million. The …

More services for the public were introduced; visitor numbers soared, with the temporary exhibition "Treasures of Tutankhamun " in 1972, attracting 1,694,117 visitors, the most …