Monthly Exhibition Stats - 2025

By: Objects & Order

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Every month we share information from EXH.CAT, our database for searching current, future, past, and digital exhibitions at 440+ museums and other arts and culture institutions in the US.

March 2025

  • More exhibitions closed than opened
  • Most popular opening day: Saturday, March 15th
  • Most popular closing day: Sunday, March 30th
  • About 1,650 exhibitions were on view

Year-over-year trends:

  • Fewer exhibitions opened in March 2025 than in March 2023 or 2024
  • Q1 2025 saw fewer exhibition openings than Q1 2023 or 2024

In March, we entered the 13,000th exhibition in EXH.CAT! 🎉


February 2025

  • More exhibitions opened than closed
  • Most popular opening day: Saturday, February 1st
  • Most popular closing day: Sunday, February 23rd

Year-over-year trends:

  • Fewer exhibitions opened in February 2025 than in February 2023 or 2024
  • Exhibition openings in the first 2 months of 2025 fell short of 2023 and 2024

January 2025

Happy New Year! There are so many amazing exhibitions to see in 2025!

  • Significantly more exhibitions closed than opened (about twice as many)
  • It was a huge month for exhibition closings (over 400!)
  • Most popular opening day: Saturday, January 18th
  • Most popular closing day: Sunday, January 5th
  • Over 1,600 exhibitions were on view

Year-over-year trends:

  • Fewer exhibitions opened in January 2025 than in January 2024, 2023, or 2022
  • More exhibitions closed in January 2025 than in January 2024 or 2023