Study of the Age of Art Museums Visitors in the U.S.
Art museums are crucial for conserving culture and history and educating and gathering the community. Museums are places that carry human civilization and are an important part of basic education. Improve the cognitive and aesthetic level of visitors in the development and guidance. However, today art museums are facing the challenge of the multitude of alternatives for entertainment and education, including online streaming, Instagrammable pop-ups, and the easy online accessibility of content previously exclusive to museums.
In additional, museums are economic engines. Before the pandemic, museums support over 726,000 American jobs and contribute $50 billion to the US economy each year. The economic activity of museums generates over $12 billion in tax revenue, one-third of it going to state and local governments. Each job created by the museum sector results in $16,495 in additional tax revenue. The future of museums depends on securing current, but, more importantly, the future visitors. The only way to do this is by understanding the audiences art museums attract as well as the ones they do not. This study is to understand the American visitors of domestic art museums by ago in 1982 to 2019. Therefrom, we can know the potential relationship between age and art museum attendance from this study.
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