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SHAFAQNA ( Shia International News Assocation) - First ever real photos of the shrine and grave of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and the house and Mihrab of Hazrat Fatemeh Zahra (SA).

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SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) — With hundreds of museums and galleries in England it's no surprise that thousands of visitors flock to them for a good day out but which place is the most popular?

Figures published today by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) show the number of monthly visitors to museums and galleries in England such as the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and the Tate Liverpool. In August 2012, the combined visitors to the Tate Modern and Tate Britain was 673,212. The British Museum with more than 480,000 visitors in August alone had the highest number of any single museum on the list.

The chart above allows you to choose a specific museum or gallery and it will show you the number of visitors by year. Move your mouse over the chart to see the figures.

The data shows visitor figures by month for museum and gallery groups also. Therefore we can see that the Tate galleries (comprising of Tate Liverpool, Tate St.Ives, Tate Modern and Tate Britain) were the most popular in August with 791,164 visitors. The Science Museum group (Science Museum South Kensington, Museum of Science and Industry, National Railway Museum (York), National Media Museum, National Coal Mining Museum for England and National Railway Museum in Shildon) and the Natural History Museum group (branches at South Kensington and Tring) both had more than 600,000 visitors in August.

The data also shows visiting figures over time. You can see how some have progressed over the years, such as the small but popular Sir John Soane's museum in London which has risen from 85,001 visitors in 2004/05 to 109,527 in 2010/11. Last year the Tate gallery group had the highest number of visitors followed by the British museum and the National Gallery. It was a similar picture in 2004/05 which shows some firm favourites have always ranked highly in terms of visitors.

The table below shows the monthly visitors to each museum, gallery and group for 2012. You can find data over the years and by total visitors per year for each of the museums and galleries. What can you do with this data?

For more information click on the link below:

Number of visitors by year

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Source: the guardian