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Museums and collections. Counties and Aran

Museums and collections. Counties and areas Catalonia
Museums Collections Total
2013 171 388 559
2012 165 378 543
2011 167 385 552
2010 162 372 534
Source: Ministry of Culture.
Note: Law 23/2010, of July 22, on the creation of the area of Penedès, divides Catalonia into eight territorial planning areas. This change implies that the data for the Metropolitan Area, Central Counties and Camp de Tarragona are not directly comparable with previous years.

Last update: October 14, 2014.

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 "..".