Museums; public access, collection, visits, costs and revenues 1993-2009
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Museums; public access, collection, visits, exhibitions, costs & revenu
Museums; visits, costs & revenu
1993-2009
Changed on March 18 2014.
Frequency: Discontinued.
Museums; visits, costs & revenu
1993-2009
Changed on March 18 2014.
Frequency: Discontinued.
Description topics
- 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.- Number of museums
- Temporary closed museums excluded from 1997 on.
- Open during the whole year
- Open during part of the year
- Due to e.g. seasons only open during a part of the year.
- Nature of the collection
- A museum collection is a collection of objects by which the museum is
justified.
The collection is (partly) made accessible in exhibition spaces. It
is possible that a part of the collection has been stored in a depot
or elsewhere because of a lack of exhibition space, vulnerability,
restoration, policy or for other reasons.- Arts museums
- In 1999 a certain number of museums with a miscellaneous collection have
been moved to the category plastic arts museums.
- History museums
- Natural history museums
- Ethnology museums
- Science and engineering museums
- Museums with a miscellaneous collection
- In 1999 a certain number of museums with a miscellaneous collection have
been moved to the category plastic arts museums.
- Visits by entrance fee type
- Number of visits per year by entrance fee type. Access to the
museum can be granted by paying the full entrance fee, with a discount
rate, with a museum card or for free.- Visits with museum cards
- Inclusive NS-pass and/or Rabo-Europass.
- Average entrance fees museums
- The entrance fee is the entrance rate which has to be paid in order to
access the collection. The average admission fee has been calculated for
the non-free museums.- Adults
- Children
- Exhibitions
- Number of temporary expositions of a collection taking place in a museum
or organised by the museum on another location.- In museum in the Netherlands
- Organised by museum
- Number of exhibitions organised by a museum in another area, thus not in
own location, whether in the Netherlands or abroad. No 2001 nor 2003 data
available for this.- In other space in the Netherlands
- Not in own museum.
- Abroad
- Costs & revenues museums
- Overview of the total costs and revenues.
- Costs
- Overview of the museums' expenditures to the staff, accommodation,
purchase of goods, purchase of catering, depreciation, interests,
exhibitions, insurance premiums and maintenance collections.- Revenues
- Overview of the museums' revenue. These consist of amongst others: grants
and financial support from the government and sponsors, wage subsidies,
entrance fees, membership fees, museum cards, NS-pass, goods sales,
revenue from catering and from interests.- Revenue museum card
- The amount a museum receives from the 'foundation museum card' based on
the number of visits by card owners.
- Financial balance
- The difference between the total costs and revenues.