Museums; size, visits and personnel, per region and province 1995-2009
| Regions | Periods | Number of museums (number) | Museums by number of visits Up to 2 500 visits (in % of all the museums) | Museums by number of visits 100 000 and more visits (in % of all the museums) | Visits to museums Visits Total visits (x 1000) | Visits to museums Visits Paid visits (x 1000) | Visits to museums Visits Museum card and free visits (x 1000) | Museum staff Employees Total employees (number) | Museum staff Employees On payroll (number) | Museum staff Employees Other paid staff (number) | Museum staff Full-time equivalents Total FTE (fte's) | Museum staff Full-time equivalents On payroll (fte's) | Museum staff Full-time equivalents Other paid staff (fte's) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Limburg | 2009* | 39 | 31 | 5 | 792 | 518 | 274 | 274 | 215 | 59 | 172 | 152 | 20 |
| Source: CBS. | |||||||||||||
Dataset is not available.
The statistics on museums provide information on companies and
institutions in the Netherlands which acquire, conserve and exhibit the
material witnesses of mankind and his environment.
This includes not only the companies and institutions for which
exploiting a museum is the main activity but also the museums which
are a sideline of the company or institution (for example being part of
a municipality, university or hospital).
This table presents figures on
- the number of museums;
- the number of museums by size according to number of visits;
- the total number of visits broken down by paid visits and free visits;
- the average number of visits per museum and the number of visits of
foreigners;
- employees (in number of persons as well as full-time equivalents) on the
payroll, other employees and volunteers.
These figures are further specified by type of museum, the composition of
the staff and size category according to full-time equivalents of
employees.
Data available from: 1995-2009
Status of the figures: all figures are definite.
Changes as of 14 March 2014:
This table has been discontinued.
When will new figures be published?
No longer applicable.
Region
- Northern Netherlands: Groningen, Friesland, Drenthe;
- Eastern Netherlands: Overijssel en Flevoland, Gelderland;
- Western Netherlands: Utrecht, North-Holland, South-Holland, Zeeland;
- Southern Netherlands: North-Brabant, Limburg.
Description topics
- Number of museums
- A museum is a permanent institution for the benefit of society and its
development, accessible to public, non-profit, that acquires, conserves,
scientifically researches and exhibits the material witnesses of mankind
and his environment and informs on this for purposes of study, education
and pleasure.
Temporarily closed museums excluded from 1997 on. - Museums by number of visits
- The breakdown of the total number of museums by size according to the
number of visits.- Up to 2 500 visits
- 100 000 and more visits
- Visits to museums
- The number of visits to museums in the Netherlands.
- Visits
- The number of visits to museums, including visits of foreigners.
The total number of visits is broken down by paid visits and free visits.- Total visits
- Paid visits
- The number of visits to museums for which an entrance fee has been paid
(possibly with discount).
- Museum card and free visits
- The number of visits to museums without paying an entrance fee or with
entrance by showing the Museum card, or 'NS-pas'.
- Museum staff
- Employees on the payroll at a museum and (possibly) other paid staff.
The employees are counted as persons and in full-time equivalents.
Reference date: the end of the year.
Volunteers are not included.- Employees
- Employees on the payroll at a museum and (possibly) other paid staff.
- Total employees
- On payroll
- Other paid staff
- Temporary workers, participants in a work programme, workers send on
secondment and so on.
Also managers/owners and collaborating members of the family (as far as
not on the payroll) are included.
- Full-time equivalents
- Working hours converted to full-time equivalents.
- Total FTE
- On payroll
- Other paid staff
- Temporary workers, participants in a work programme, workers send on
secondment and so on.
Also managers/owners and collaborating members of the family (as far as
not on the payroll) are included.