1) Eurostat surveys 2001 and 2003, if not otherwise indicated
2) Austria: Visits with unknown payment-status not taken into account
3) Austria: Employees and freelancers
4) Austria: Employees only
5) Austria: Inclusive museums expecting a donation
6) Austria: n = 203
7) Austria: n = 212
8) Austria: n = 214
9) Austria: n = 213
10) Austria: Calculated for those museums which delivered data on the payment-status as well as entry fees (n = 187). The suggested calculation method would result in an average price of 2,9.-€.
11) Austria: Reference period 2nd quarter 2006 - 1st quarter 2007
12) Croatia: Croatian Museum Act defines museum activities rather than museum itself; Museum Documentation Centre set up some criteria, among which the main is the existence of museum collection. If the source of data is not particularily indicated, the source of data is the Register of Museums, galleries and collections in RH managed by the Museum Documentation Centre.
13) Croatia: The main criteria is: existence of museum holdings, i.e. collection. It includes sites (main museums, collections, galleries possessing holdings, archaeological sites...)
14) Croatia: category not applicable; most of the "other" museums are complex/local or regional history museums which can be included in this category where are enlisted only specialized art, archaeology and history museums. The complex museums are very important and numerous in the national museum structure.
15) Croatia: science and technology museums are split from ethnology museums
16) Croatia: category not applicable; most these museums are complex/local or regional history museums which can be included in this category where are enlisted only specialized art, archaeology and history museums. The complex museums are very important and numerous in the national museum structure.
17) Croatia: in the category "Ownership" are included museums which founder is one of the mentioned entities in the a, b, c, d field.
18) Croatia: in the category "Management" are included museums which founder is one of the mentioned entities in the a, b, c, d field.
19) Croatia: Source: Statistical Information published by the Central Bureau of Statistics, 2006
20) Croatia: Source: First Releases - Education, Research And Development, Culture And Social Welfare, 2007 (research 2006)
21) Croatia: estimation (some museums are connected to local authorities portals, some on tourist boards portals, some on zhe Ministry of Culture portal etc.)
22) Croatia: Source: MDC - Museum annual reports 2006
23) Croatia: the figure regarding total number of specialised staff would be 21,64
24) Croatia: estimation
25) Croatia: source: MDC - 25th exhibition of publication activity by Croatian museums and galleries - catalogue, 2006.
26) Finland: The 2006 annual museum statistics cover 163 professionally-run museums. All museum sites maintained by these museums are included.
27) Finland: All professionnally-run museums have at least one computer but not all museum sites
28) Finland: Large public investments not included
29) This category is not applicable; in Germany Science and technology museums are split from ethnology museums
30) Italy: Data on 402 state-owned museums (managed directly by the Ministry) are collected every year by the Ministry of Culture. Data on 4.340 other public and private museums are collected by the Italian National Institute of Statistics.
31) Italy: 402 State-owned museums and 2.383 other public and private museums, includes archaeological sites, churches, historical buildings (villas, castles) and musealized historical gardens and monuments.
32) Italy: includes monuments of civil and industrial architecture ( 0 State-owned museums and 1.071) other public and private museums
33) Italy: includes mausoleums, memorials ( of which 0 State-owned museums and 886 other public and private museums).
34) Italy: of which 402 State-owned museums and 79 other public and private museums
35) Italy: of which 0 State-owned museums and 2.158 other public and private museums
36) Italy: of which 0 State-owned museums and 321 other public and private museums
37) Italy: of which 0 State-owned museums and 1.782 other public and private museums
38) Italy: of which 0 State-owned museums and 373 other public and private museums
39) Italy: of which 398 State-owned museums and 68 other public and private museums
40) Italy: of which 2 State-owned museums and 1.518 other public and private museums
41) Italy: of which 0 State-owned museums and 360 other public and private museums
42) Italy: of which 2 State-owned museums and 2.385 other public and private museums
43) Italy: of which 1 State-owned museums and 26 other public and private museums
44) Italy: of which 0 State-owned museums and 2.348 other public and private museums
45) Italy: of which 402 State-owned museums and 1.992 other public and private museums
46) Italy: of which 34.574.591 visits in State-owned museums and 62.701.994 visits in other public and private museums
47) Italy: of which 18.110.074 free admissions in State-owned museums and 27.139.149 free admissions in other public and private museums
48) Italy: of which 52,4% free admissions in State-owned museums and 43,3% of free admissions in other public and private museums
49) Italy: Data on state-owned museums not avaialble.
50) Italy: Data on state-owned museums not available.
51) Italy: of which 184 State-owned museums with free entrance and 2.462 other public and private museums with free entrance.
52) Italy:of which 69 State-owned museums with museum card and 1.137 other public and private museums with museum card. For State-owned Museums, 2008 data.
53) The value concerns the number of museums with an inclusive price (all-in). In particular, in 2006 there are 35 circuits of museums, equal to 72 museums. Two state-owned museums are included in non-state-owned circuits.
54) The value concerns the gross-income of the 402 opened museums.
55) Italy: of which 104.411.477 entry fees related to State-owned museums and 149.302.875 entry fees related to other public and private museums
56) Italy: of which 402 State-owned museums and 658 other public and private museums
57) Italy: 58.471 related to State-owned museums and 106.039 related to other public and private museums
58) Italy: 27.844 related to State-owned museums and 60.142 related to other public and private museums
59) Italy: 86.006 related to State-owned museums and 14.447 related to other public and private museums
60) Italy: of which 395 State-owned museums and 2.481 other public and private museums
61) Italy: of which 275 State-owned museums and 1.226 other public and private museums
62) Italy: for State-owned museums 9 museums are necessary and for other public and private museums 55 museums are necessary.
63) Italy: for State-owned museums 32 museums are necessary and for other public and private museums 276 museums are necessary.
64) The number includes also the Circuits.
65) Italy: State-owned museums only.
66) Italy: Source: Multipurpose survey on households: aspects of daily life, the Italian National Institute of Statistics
67) concerns Year 2005
68) There are currently no overarching categories used in the classification of museum collections – each museum defines their own categories according to the themes of their collection and their own traditions.
69) State and municipal museums
70) in groups only
71) 6,7% (in groups only)
72) Normal working hours in Latvia: 40 hours a week
73) with higher education
74) There are no public museums with free entrance in Latvia. In many museums there are free entrance days (for all or for some categories of visitors) within the week or within the year.
75) Luxembourg: out of 39 museums having answered on the questionnaire
76) Out of 46 museums opened in 2006 and registered by the Ministry of Culture on the territory of the Grand-Duchy and having answered on the questionnaire
77) data from 24 museums
78) Portugal: 276 museums on national criteria, fulfilling the following 5 criteria: 1) existence, at least, one exhibition room or space; 2) opening for visitors, permanently or seasonally; 3) museum employing at least 1 specialized employee (existence of, at least one curator or advanced technician; 4) existence of budget and 5) existence of inventory.
79) include 21 zoological, botanic gardens and aquarium
80) Portugal: Museums that had answered to the INE
81) Include 21 zoological, botanic gardens and aquarium
82) Portugal 2006: on national criteria, 291 museums are considered. Included 2.558.516 visitors from 15 zoological gardens, botanic gardens and aquatic gardens.
83) Portugal: includes 637 from 15 zoological or botanic gardens and aquarium.
84) Portugal: includes 187 from 15 zoological or botanic gardens and aquarium.
85) 291 museums are considered, included 7 zoological or botanic gardens and aquarium. It reports to the museums that have organized temporary exhibitions and not the number of them.
86) Included 15 zoological gardens, botanic gardens and aquarium
87) Population 2006: 10.584.344 inhabitants
88) Included 19 zoological or botanic gardens and aquarium
89) Included 3 zoological or botanic gardens and aquarium
90) Included 8 zoological or botanic gardens and aquarium
91) Included 18 zoological or botanic gardens and aquarium
92) Included 13 zoological or botanic gardens and aquarium
93) According to the statistics museal collections and museum from Romania, held by the Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs and administrated by cIMeC - Institute for Culture Memory
94) Romania: forecast
95) In 2006, of the 177 museums, museum collections, exhibition grounds and galleries that transmitted data on their activity 46 were museums (26% of all museums and exhibition organizations), 28 were museum collections (15,8%), 3 were special museums for art heritage (1,7%), 64 were exhibitions grounds and galleries (36,2%) and the rest (20,3%) were other types of museums and exhibition grounds.
96) Spain: Definition National criteria. Both for-profit and non-for-profit institutions are considered. Museum Collections are included. See Spain National Report. February 2024 for further details.
97) Spain. Source: Survey of Cultural Habits and Practices in Spain 2006-2007. Ministry of Culture. Spain.
98) Czech Republic: Staff only in state-owned and local- and regional-owned museums
99) Staff only in state-owned and local- and regional-owned museums
100) Czech Republic: Estimation
101) Republic of Macedonia, State Statistical Office - Museums and museum collections, 2006
102) The number includes the ethnology museums, too. (The statistical report refers only to the type of the museums by the founder).
103) Macedonia: The permanent collections in the museums in Macedonia are 100% state-owned.
104) Macedonia: 2005 Annual Report of the Ministry of Culture