Most visited free attractions in North East England 2021

The Durham Cathedral was the most visited free attraction in North East England in 2021, recording around 251.5 thousand visitors. While this figure showed a 67 percent increase in attendance compared to the first year of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, it remained way below pre-pandemic levels.

Most visited free attractions in North East England from 2019 to 2021 (in 1,000 visitors)

Characteristic	2019	2020	2021
Durham Cathedral	727.3	150.7	251.5
Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens	405.3	99.2	135.4
Great North Museum: Hancock	520.2	14.4	108.2
The Sill National Landscape Discovery Centre¹	134.8	-	106.5
Discovery Museum²	314.9	6.4	81.9
Fusiliers Museum of Northumberland	90.9	0	58.4
Locomotion	180.7	47.6	55.5
Laing Art Gallery	195.9	11.5	40.2
South Shields Museum and Art Gallery	99.2	5.9	35.9
RNLI Grace Darling Museum	58.4	8.6	29.5

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Release date

2022

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Region

United Kingdom (England)

Survey time period

2019 to 2021

Special properties

excluding country parks

Supplementary notes

¹ Data for 2020 was not available.

² Estimates.

Figures have been rounded. Free attractions have been ranked according to the highest number of visits in 2021.

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