Russian collection sees visitors decline, confirms city museum annual data

Three top museums in Malaga run directly by the city council have reported their visitor numbers for 2018, and it is disappointing reading for bosses at the Russian Museum.

Whereas Picasso's birthplace museum and the Centre Pompidou more or less held their visitor levels, the Russian collection saw almost 26 per cent fewer visitor last year.

In 2017, 116,897 people visited the gallery, which is in the Tabacalera building on the outskirts of the city. It is part of the collection of the Russian State Museum of Saint Petersburg but run by the town hall. This number fell back to 86,506 last year, says the data.

The Centre Pompidou Malaga, a branch of the Paris museum, saw 165,522 visitors and Picasso's birthplace 125,905.

In the CAC Málaga modern art gallery, privately operated on behalf of the council, there was also a 30,000 decline to 475,044 visitors.