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Art museums provide a tangible connection between the humanities and Americans’ lives, but the rate of art museum visitation among adults has declined since the early 2000s, according to the National Endowment for the Arts’ Survey of Public Participation in the Arts. With respect to younger Americans, data collected as part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress indicate that most early adolescents had not visited an art museum or exhibit (either with their class or on their own) in the previous year, and their rate of visitation did not change from 2008 to 2016.

V-27b: Share of Eighth Graders Who Visited a Museum on a Class Field Trip in the Previous Year, 2008 and 2016

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* A reliable estimate was not available for Native American students. The available estimate for English language learners was not generalizable to the entire population of such students and was thus excluded from this indicator.

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Arts Assessment. Data analyzed (using the NAEP Data Explorer) and presented by the American Academy of Arts Sciences’ Humanities Indicators (www.humanitiesindicators.org).

V-27c: Share of Eighth Graders Who Visited a Museum outside School in the Previous Year, 2008 and 2016

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* A reliable estimate was not available for Native American students. The available estimate for English language learners was not generalizable to the entire population of such students and was thus excluded from this indicator.

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Arts Assessment. Data analyzed (using the NAEP Data Explorer) and presented by the American Academy of Arts Sciences’ Humanities Indicators (www.humanitiesindicators.org).

Information regarding the statistical significance of observed differences in rates of visitation by level of parents’ education is available here.

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