The Making of Cultural Policy: A European Perspective



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2.5 Museum data for Europe

The European Group on Museum Statistics (EGMUS) collects available data on museums in Europe.
Since national museum surveys are conducted in very different manners, present data are not comparable.
To guarantee comparability at the European level, EGMUS has designed a common core of questions to
be inserted in or extracted from national surveys. Some partial comparisons can be deduced from the data
presented in Table 7. For example, Norway and Sweden have a large number of visits per 1,000
inhabitants, followed by the Netherlands, the UK Germany, France and Spain. Citizens of Italy, Portugal,
Luxemburg, Latvia and Romania visit museums rather less than elsewhere. Museums throughout Europe
often have free admissions and entry fees make up only a relatively small fraction of total museum
income. Most countries have many public and private museums varying from art, archaeology, history,
ethnology and science & technology museums. The Nordic countries, Norway, Sweden and Finland,
Latvia and the UK have a relatively high percentage of the population that has visited a museum while
museum participation is below average in France, Spain, Italy and Portugal.

Table 7: Museum statistics for Europe 2003

Number

#visits

%free_____

Income

Entry fees

Staff

Participation

FI_________

201

91________

37________

19.6

8.7

1,590

37

FR_____

111

23________

GE

2,729

121

33________

IT________

384

52________

47

81.0

28_______

LA

62________

1,735

59_______

LU

26

43________

24

6.0

223

32________

NL

541

130

30________

414.4

56.9

8,935

32________

NO

146

183

46_______

236.9

18.9

45_______

PR_____

218

59________

2,648

16________

RO

519

7_____

SL______

102

72________

23

17.1

2.1

2,292

SP______

878

106

56_______

10,951

22

SW

184

185

43________

327.6

30.7

52_______

UK

1,102

127

491.0

16,777

42_______

Key: Number (of museums opened at least 200 days a year), #visits (visits per 1,000 inhabitants), %free
(percentage of free admissions of total visits), income and entry fees (millions euro), and participation
(percentage of population of 14 years and older have visited a museum in 1994. #visits for Germany is
excluding free entries and for the UK is based on visits to 1,182 out of 1,850 responding museums.

Data available for Finland (FI), France (FR), Germany (GE), Italy (IT), Latvia (LA), Luxemburg (LU),
Netherlands (NL), Norway (NO), Portugal (PR), Romania (RO), Slovak Republic (SL), Spain (SP),
Sweden (SW) and UK.

Source: EGMUS, Museum Statistics 2003, Eurostat; participation data from Eurobarometer 2001.



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