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In 2019, Estonian museums were visited 3.5 mln times
In 2019, there were 180 museums with 244 museum sites in Estonia. Place
museums introducing a village, town or rural municipality (96) accounted for
the largest number of sites and there were also many thematic museums (66).
According to Maali
Käbin, analyst at Statistics Estonia, the most popular museums were
thematic museums with more than a million visits, followed by history museums
with 830,910 visits. “Estonia continues as one of the European countries with
high museum attendance. Last year, museum attendance per 1,000 inhabitants was
more than 2,650. Attendance was highest in Saare and Tartu counties: an average
of four and a half visits per local inhabitant,” said Käbin.
An estimated
one-fifth of all museum visitors in Estonia were foreign tourists. There were
slightly more of them in Tartu (30%) and Harju counties (29%) and the share was
smallest in Järva and Rapla counties (4%).
Children up to the
age of 9 visited museums 224,400 times in 2019, which is 27,000 visits more
than the year before. Thematic museums were visited 74,547 times and natural
history museums, which were also popular among children, 43,159 times. In 2019,
museum visits of disabled persons were registered separately for the first time
– the total number was 6,555.
A total of 1,569
persons were employed in museums, i.e. slightly fewer than in 2018. The number
of full-time equivalent positions was 1,453. In 2019, museums published 158 scientific
publications, one-third of which were published by history museums.
Last year, museums
hosted nearly 1,200 exhibitions – 400 fewer than the year before. More than
590,000 people participated in educational programmes and more than 300,000
children and young people in museum lessons.
For the survey, the main representative of public
interest is the Ministry of Culture, commissioned by whom Statistics Estonia
analyses the data necessary for conducting this statistical activity. The
classification of museums is based on UNESCO classification.
More detailed data have been published in the statistical database (Museums, All data for the period,
2019).
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