The Art Newspaper – The number of visits to German museums fell by 2.2% in 2016 from the previous year, with museums focussed on art and cultural history bearing the brunt of the decline, according to the German Museums Association.
The association said in a statement that the most-cited reasons for the decline were that museums had been unable to repeat particularly successful exhibition programmes in 2015, had hosted fewer visitor groups, or that their region had experienced a decline in tourism