The chart below shows the numbers of three types of visitors to a museum between 1997 and 2012. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The line graph reveals the frequency of museum visitation by adults, teenagers and special

exhibition

visitors from 1997 to 2012, a period of 15 years. Generally speaking, adults tend to be interested in cultural, historical or scientific heritage the most, and their number increased, just like the special

exhibition

sightseers.

However

, fewer youngsters are interested in exploring museums. As is shown by the bar chart, starting from 1997 with 300 thousand guests, the scale of adults reached the peak in 2007 with a figure

for

Change preposition

of

show examples

400, 500. Despite the slight decline over the

last

5 years, the proportion of people aged over 18 was gradually going up culminating in the highest popularity of all three age groups. Special

exhibition

visitors became more inclined to take a look at the artistic galleries or past monuments as the upward tendency can be seen

In contrast

, people aged under 15 became less likely to go to the museums as their visitations dropped by 38 thousand over the 15 years timescale to finish at only 82, 3000. Irrespective of

this

fact, their

overall

score is still higher than that of special

exhibition

guests