Country | Germany | Slovak Republic | The Netherlands | United Kingdom | |||
Year | 1999 | 1999 | 1999 | 1999 | |||
Definition | Working group definition | 1a | |||||
National criteria | 1b | X | X | ||||
Number of museums according to type of collection | total | 2a | 5.629 | 78 | 902 3) | 1.850 13) | |
of which | 2b | Art, archaeology and history museums | 920 | 33 | 560 | ||
2c | Science and technology museums, ethnology museums | 2) | 11 | 322 | |||
2d | Other museums | 4.709 | 34 | 10 | |||
Ownership | state-owned museums | 3a | Total | 484 | 34 | 35 4) | |
local-, regional-owned museums | 3b | Total | 2.419 | 35 | 99 5) | ||
other public-owned museums | 3c | Total | 341 | 4 | 19 6) | ||
private-owned museums | 3d | Total | 2.385 | 5 | 750 | ||
3e | Of which ppp |
344 | 678 | ||||
Management | state-managed museums | 4a | Total | 34 | 7) | ||
local-, regional-managed museums | 4b | Total | 35 | 99 | |||
other public-managed museums | 4c | Total | 4 | 19 | |||
private-managed museums | 4d | Total | 5 | 750 | |||
4e | Of which ppp |
678 | |||||
Ownership of permanent collection | Public ≤ 50% | 5a | 73 | 153 | |||
Public > 50% | 5b | 5 | 750 | ||||
Number of visits | Total | 6a | 96.190.374 | 3.163.717 | 20.679.000 | 74.600.000 14) | |
Of which | 6b | free admissions Total |
896.380 | 3.441.000 | |||
6c | free admissions % |
28,00 | 32,00 | ||||
6d | foreigners Total |
3.969.000 | |||||
6e | foreigners % |
19,00 | 24,00 | ||||
6f | temporary exhibitions Total |
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6g | temporary exhibitions % |
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Staff | Paid staff | 7a | Number Total |
1.815 | 7.694 | 16.777 15) | |
7b | Number Of which specialised |
881 | |||||
7c | FTES a year Total |
1.740 | 5.198 | 14.336 16) | |||
7d | FTES a year Of which specialised |
788,00 | |||||
Volunteers | 7e | Number Total |
16.205 | 28.085 | |||
7f | Number Of which specialised |
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7g | FTES a year Total |
1.765 | |||||
7h | FTES a year Of which specialised |
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Admissions | Total number of museums with paid admissions with a price of tickets (in EUR) | 8a | < 2,5,- | 77 | 156 17) | ||
8b | 2,5 - 5,- | 191 | |||||
8c | > 5,- | 326 | |||||
Number of museums | 8d | with free entrance | 640 | ||||
8e | with museum card | 77 | |||||
Temporary exhibitions | Total | 9a | 973 | 2.249 8) | 785 18) | ||
Of which | 9b | Own production | 577 | ||||
9c | Joined productions | 396 | |||||
Expenditure (of museums) | Total (In EUR) | 10a | 7.707.619 | 354.000.000 | |||
Of which | 10b | Ordinary expenditures Total |
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10c | Ordinary expenditures Of which Staff |
183.000.000 | |||||
10d | Extraordinary expenditures Total |
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10e | Extraordinary expenditures Of which for new Collections |
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Income (of museums) | Total (in EUR) | 11a | 3.786.166 | 358.000.000 | 491.000.000 | ||
Of which | 11b | Entry fees | 1.217.690 | 54.000.000 9) | |||
11c | Public subsidies | 221.000.000 | |||||
Public expenditure (for museums) | Total (in EUR) | 12a | 7.450.095 | ||||
Of which | 12b | Investments | 2.808.762 | ||||
Number of museums making use of computers | Total number of museums equipped with at least one computer | 13a | 75 | ||||
Of which | 13b | for administrative purpose | 75 | ||||
13c | for visitor's information purposes (e.g. interactive gallery system) | ||||||
13d | having a database for electronic inventory | 70 | |||||
13e | having an Internet access | 10 | 508 19) | ||||
Information - Diffusion - Education | Number of museums possessing a web-site | 14 | Total | 10) | |||
Number of museums possessing an own web-site | 15a | Total | 11) | ||||
15b | Of wich are updating themselves their web-site |
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Number of museums | 16a | connected to a museum portal Total |
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16b | connected to a museum portal Of which connected to more than one museum portal |
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16c | connected to (an)other portal(s) | ||||||
Number of museums with at least one special museum education programme | 17a | Total | |||||
17b | Of which for school children |
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17c | Of which for ethnic minorities |
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17d | for senior citizens | ||||||
17e | for others | ||||||
Museums per 100.000 inhabitants on working group definition |
18 | 1,40 | 5,80 | ||||
Museums per 100.000 inhabitants on natioinal criteria |
19 | 5,80 | |||||
Visits per 100.000 inhabitants including free entries |
20 | 58.602,00 | 130.780,00 | ||||
Visits per 100.000 inhabitants excluding free entries |
21 | 16.604,00 | 109.377,00 | ||||
Average number of visits per museum according to working group definition |
22 | 40.560,00 | 22.926,00 | ||||
Average number of visits per museum according to national criteria |
23 | 22.926,00 | 50.400,00 | ||||
Staff per 100.000 inhabitants | 24 | 34,00 | 33,00 12) | ||||
Expenditure per capita (in EUR) | 25 | 1,40 | 22,00 | ||||
Public Expenditure per 100.000 inhabitants (in EUR) | 26 | 137.999,00 | |||||
Number of museums opened 200 days and more a year | 27 | 568 | 1.102 20) | ||||
Number of museums with more than 5.000 visits a year including free entries |
28 | 444 | |||||
Number of museums necessary to reach | 50 % of total visits (including free entries) | 29a | 38 | ||||
75 % of total visits (including free entries) | 29b | 130 | |||||
Number of museums employing at least 1 specialised staff | 30 | ||||||
Average price paid (in EUR) |
31 | 0,50 | 2,23 | ||||
Number of museums with at least one publication | 32 | 23 | |||||
Number of museums with at least one publication on an electronic data carrier | 33 | ||||||
Museum participation Source: Eurobarometer 1) |
34 | 33,00 | 42,00 | ||||
Population Source: Eurostat |
35 | 82.087.361 | 5.393.382 | 15.760.225 | 59.328.900 | ||
Density inhabitants/km² Source: Eurostat |
36 | 230,00 | 110,00 | 466,70 | 240,70 | ||
Purchasing Power Parity in EUR Source: Eurostat |
37 | 121,000 | 50,000 | 131,000 | 118,000 |
Blank spaces either imply that there is no data available or that the data is negligible or is equal to zero
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1) Eurostat surveys 2001 and 2003, if not otherwise indicated
2) This category is not applicable; in Germany Science and technology museums are split from ethnology museums
3) The Netherlands: of which 565 professionally-run museums.
4) The Netherlands: 25 museums are subsidited by the Ministry of Culture. They are foundations and therefore included in 3c. The collections as well as buildings of these museums are state property. 45 museums are dependant on state subsidies for at least 50% of their income.
5) The Netherlands: Municipal and provincial museums. The collections as well as the buildings of these museums are state, municipal or provincial property.
6) The Nertherlands: including a number of provincial museums.
7) The Netherlands: Including all museums subsidized by the central government.
8) The Netherlands: 1.725 temporary exhibitions were organized in the museums themselves; 346 in another venue in The Netherlands; 64 abroard.
9) The Netherlands: including the income from museum card.
10) The Netherlands: This is the total number of museums with or without an own website offering information on the Internet museum portals included.
11) The Netherlands: All museums with own website are connected to a museum portal.
12) The Netherlands: For FTE's of paid staff.
13) The answers provided below have been taken from the Digest of Museum Statistics or DOMUS. DOMUS is both a questionnaire and a database which contains data on over 1.700 museums in the Registration Scheme that was run by the Museums & Galleries Commission (NGC). Questionnaires were sent annually to museums within the UK between 1994 and 1999. The museum population, to which the questionnaires were sent, consisted mostly of those museums applying or having applied to join the Registration Scheme. Questions asked ranged from contact details, plans and policies, collections held, opening periods and times, staff numbers, facilities to number of visits. Answers were entered onto the DOMUS database held at the Museums & Galleries Commission. In 2000 MGC was dissolved and Resource “The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries” was created. The database is currently held by Resource. For 2005, the total number of museums is 1.984.
14) Total number of visits to 1.182 responding museums.
15) This figure is the actual number of staff and includes permanent, temporary and freelance staff.
16) The figure for FTE staff is for permanent and temporary staff.
17) The question asked in DOMUS is the charge for entering the core collection. Therefore, figures given as the answers to column 8 are the number of museums asking for an admission fee to the core collection.
18) The figure given is the number for museums that indicated having a temporary exhibition program.
19) There was a considerable amount of data collected on IT in Museums. However, much of the data do not tie-up with the wording of the columns. For more details of the use of computer in museums, contact Resource.
20) This is the number of museums open for more months a year.
2) This category is not applicable; in Germany Science and technology museums are split from ethnology museums
3) The Netherlands: of which 565 professionally-run museums.
4) The Netherlands: 25 museums are subsidited by the Ministry of Culture. They are foundations and therefore included in 3c. The collections as well as buildings of these museums are state property. 45 museums are dependant on state subsidies for at least 50% of their income.
5) The Netherlands: Municipal and provincial museums. The collections as well as the buildings of these museums are state, municipal or provincial property.
6) The Nertherlands: including a number of provincial museums.
7) The Netherlands: Including all museums subsidized by the central government.
8) The Netherlands: 1.725 temporary exhibitions were organized in the museums themselves; 346 in another venue in The Netherlands; 64 abroard.
9) The Netherlands: including the income from museum card.
10) The Netherlands: This is the total number of museums with or without an own website offering information on the Internet museum portals included.
11) The Netherlands: All museums with own website are connected to a museum portal.
12) The Netherlands: For FTE's of paid staff.
13) The answers provided below have been taken from the Digest of Museum Statistics or DOMUS. DOMUS is both a questionnaire and a database which contains data on over 1.700 museums in the Registration Scheme that was run by the Museums & Galleries Commission (NGC). Questionnaires were sent annually to museums within the UK between 1994 and 1999. The museum population, to which the questionnaires were sent, consisted mostly of those museums applying or having applied to join the Registration Scheme. Questions asked ranged from contact details, plans and policies, collections held, opening periods and times, staff numbers, facilities to number of visits. Answers were entered onto the DOMUS database held at the Museums & Galleries Commission. In 2000 MGC was dissolved and Resource “The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries” was created. The database is currently held by Resource. For 2005, the total number of museums is 1.984.
14) Total number of visits to 1.182 responding museums.
15) This figure is the actual number of staff and includes permanent, temporary and freelance staff.
16) The figure for FTE staff is for permanent and temporary staff.
17) The question asked in DOMUS is the charge for entering the core collection. Therefore, figures given as the answers to column 8 are the number of museums asking for an admission fee to the core collection.
18) The figure given is the number for museums that indicated having a temporary exhibition program.
19) There was a considerable amount of data collected on IT in Museums. However, much of the data do not tie-up with the wording of the columns. For more details of the use of computer in museums, contact Resource.
20) This is the number of museums open for more months a year.