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Museums and collections. Counties and Aran

Museums and collections. Counties and Aran Catalonia
Museums Collections Total
2021 115 372 487
2020 115 372 487
2019 115 382 497
2018 114 379 493
2017 113 379 492
2016 112 378 490
2015 118 379 497
Source: Ministry of Culture.
Note: Includes main and branch museums and collections.

Last update: April 28, 2023.

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.

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 "..".