Museums; size, visits and personnel, per type of museum 1997-2009

Museums; size, visits and personnel, per type of museum 1997-2009

Categories Periods Visits to museums Foreign visits (x 1 000)
All types of museums 2009* 3,304
Art museums 2009* 1,934
History museums 2009* 1,042
Natural history museums 2009* 65
Ethnology museums 2009* 127
Science and engineering museums 2009* 36
Museums with a miscellaneous collection 2009* 99
Museums without employees on payroll 2009* 74
Museums with volunteers only 2009* 27
Museums with other employees only 2009* 28
Museums with 0-5 FTEs 2009* 165
Museums with 5-10 FTEs 2009* 46
Museums with 10-25 FTEs 2009* 169
Museums with 25 + FTEs 2009* 2,923
Source: CBS.
Explanation of symbols

Table explanation


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 1997-2009.

Status of the figures:
The figures are definite.

Changes as of 14-03-2014:
Non, this table has been stopped.

When will new figures be published?
Table has been discontinued.

Description topics

Visits to museums
The number of visits to museums in the Netherlands.
Foreign visits
The number of visits (paid and free) to museums by persons residing in a
foreign country.