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Museums and collections. Counties and Aran

Museums and collections. Counties and areas Catalonia
Museums Collections Total
2009 160 357 517
2008 153 339 492
2007 152 315 467
2006 149 324 473
2005 146 311 457
2004 147 315 462
2003 146 311 457
2002 143 236 379
2001 139 218 357
Source:
2001-2004: Ministry of Culture.
2005-2009: Departament de Cultura i Mitjans de Comunicació.

Last update: July 20, 2012.

Methodological note

Definition of concepts

Museum
Permanent institution, non-profit making and open to the public and that contains a collection of cultural properties in order to conserve them, document them, exhibit them and promote them.

Methodological aspects

Law 17/1990, on 2 November, on Museums created the Museums Register of Catalonia, an official inventory of Catalan museums. The application of all of the procedures and terms provided for in the administrative procedure has meant that since 1995 are recorded and collections are defined.

Museums and collections are defined as permanent, non-profit institutions that offer the public access to the holdings of fixed and movable cultural assets they conserve, document, study and exhibit.

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".