Figures are not available for all museums. The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council advises that regional figures for museum visits specifically in regard to the Renaissance programme 2002-08 are as follows.
2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 North West 62,175 61,750 68,456 78,669 81,456 71,397 North East 92,033 102,821 115,180 115,053 111,780 125,891 Yorkshire and Humberside 110,299 104,318 96,165 96,479 109,792 111,872 West Midlands 116,599 133,618 157,202 157,780 156,132 141,422 East Midlands 114,216 111,278 94,027 89,889 87,691 93,953 East of England 50,310 50,744 56,233 63,814 67,462 81,341 South West 36,976 56,262 62,646 57,133 54,175 59,123 South East 24,650 60,834 105,555 98,743 110,336 115,732 London 69,322 81,181 87,782 78,558 84,905 95,351 Total 676,580 762,806 843,246 836,118 863,729 896,082
Since 2001-02, 181 of DCMS's sponsored museums have collected figures measuring the number of children aged 16 and under attending on and off-site organised educational sessions. DCMS cannot disaggregate the data by region, to provide a regional breakdown, because some institutions who have branches across different parts of the country provide a single return for the organisation. The figures are as follows:
Number 2001-02 1,705,634 2002-03 2,256,386 2003-04 2,270,448 2004-05 2,785,155 2005-06 2,722,094 2006-07 2,894,499 2007-08 3,525,037
1 British Museum, Geffrye Museum, Horniman Museum, Imperial War Museum, Museum of London, Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, National Gallery, National Maritime Museum, National Museums Liverpool, National Museum of Science and Industry, National Portrait Gallery, Natural History Museum, Royal Armouries, Sir John Soane’s Museum, Tate Gallery, Tyne and Wear Museums Service, Victoria and Albert Museum and Wallace Collection.