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

The bar graph depicts the

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of visitors to a museum from the

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1997 to 2012. The units are measured in thousands.

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, between 1997 to 2012, adults visited the most,

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visitors who were under the age of 15 were the second lowest, and the least audience which came for a visit to a special exhibition. The largest

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of audience came in the

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2007. Explorers under the age of 15 showed the most interest in the

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1997, with a

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of 120,000, and by the

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2012, it decreased gradually by 82,300. From the

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1997 to 2012, the special exhibition audience grew from 28,000 to 42,000. The grown-up person showed up in the museum in the

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1997 at the

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of 300,100. It increased a bit in the next survey in the

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2002 by 302,200,

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it surged in the

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2007 by 400,500, and

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it plunged by 380,000 in the

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2012.