MUSEUMS, GALLERIES AND COLLECTIONS, 2021

The processing of statistical reports for 2021 on the territory of the Republic of Croatia covers 126 museums and museum collections, 38 galleries and 39 collections.

Out of a total of 126 museums that were included in this survey, 111 of them were open to the public, mostly due to the damage caused by earthquakes in 2020. Of the 15 museums that were closed to the public, ten were national ones.

The number of visitors to the permanent display in museums was 1 320 222. Observing the number of visitors to the permanent display by museums, it is noticeable that regional museums were the most visited, while observing by the type, ethnographic ones were the most visited.

In 2021, there were 961 occasional exhibitions in the principal museum or in another museum-gallery institution, visited by 1 009 410 visitors.

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, a part of the contents of museums and museum collections was available to the public online, there were 52 777 items from own fund, 434 occasional exhibitions, 306 educational workshops and 105 103 lectures and guided tours at exhibitions.

As regards additional events for museum visitors, 4 618 lectures, guided tours and promotions were organised in museums for 81 777 visitors, as well as 1 011 other cultural events, such as concerts, plays, etc., attended by 57 113 visitors.

For the youngest audience in museums, there were 3 993 educational workshops and guided tours, and 135 plays and other cultural events.

The total number of persons employed in museums and museum collections amounted to 1 684, of which 35% were expert-museum occupations. The share of women in the total number of persons in employment was 66%.

In 2021, galleries in the Republic of Croatia prepared 706 exhibitions for 331 846 visitors. There were 78 persons employed in galleries, of which 45% were experts. The share of women in the total number of persons in employment was 63%.

NOTES ON METHODOLOGY

Sources and methods of data collection

Data given here are obtained from annual reports that are collected on the Report on Museums and Museum Collections (MZ-1 form), which is submitted by museums and museum collections that keep museum materials, on the Report on Museum Collections (MZ-2 form), which is submitted by collections as well as on the Report on Galleries (MZ-3), which is submitted by self-contained galleries and galleries that are parts of institutions, which meet prescribed criteria.

The survey is carried out every third year.

Coverage and comparability

The survey covers museums and museum collections as well as collections in the Republic of Croatia, irrespective of whether they exhibit items or whether they are open to public. It also covers galleries that were open to public in the previous year.

Definitions and explanations

The activity of museums and museum collections include systematic collection, recording, keeping, expert protection, scientific processing and presenting of museum items and other material at permanent displays, occasional and mobile exhibitions. It also comprises the promotion of the museum profession and collaboration with other cultural and scientific institutes and institutions in the country and abroad.

Museum and museum collection is a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society, open to public, which collects, keeps, explores, communicates and exhibits museum materials and testimonies of man and his environment in order to teach, educate and render pleasure.

Art galleries disposing of museum materials are processed as art museums.

Museum activities are carried out in indoor and outdoor spaces.

Gallery is an exhibition place with the main activity of organising exhibitions of artistic items.

Collection is a set of items gathered from various scientific and artistic fields, irrespective of whether they are self-contained, or a constituent part of an institution/enterprise, or are a private property. Their main role is to collect and exhibit items.

Full-time equivalent is expressed in man/years. It represents a part of time that a person in employment spent at a full-time work.

It is calculated as follows:

1. An example for those employed on contractual agreement basis: one employee working half-time and one employee working quarter time give the equivalent 0.50 + 0.25 = 0.75
2. An example for those employed on employment contract basis: one employee with a six-month contract and six employees with a one-month contract each give the equivalent 0.50 + 6 x 1/12 = 1.00.

Persons in employment presented in table 3:

Expert museum occupations: curator, senior curator and museum advisor.

Expert: museum pedagogue, senior museum pedagogue and museum advisor pedagogue, documentalist, senior documentalist, advisor documentalist, IT technician, senior IT technician, advisor IT technician, restorer, senior restorer, adviser restorer, marketing manager, senior marketing manager, marketing advisor, PR manager, senior PR manager, PR advisor, graduated librarian, senior graduated librarian, advisor librarian, archivist, senior archivist, advisor archivist and other experts as required in a museum and gallery, or in a museum, gallery and collection within a legal entity.

Expert assistants: preparator, senior preparator, museum technician, senior museum technician, photographer, senior photographer, assistant librarian, librarian, archival technician, senior archival technician, and other expert assistants as required in a museum and gallery, or in a museum, gallery and collection within a legal entity

Other: administrative and auxiliary employees.

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Dubravka Rogić Hadžalić, Director of Demographic and Social Statistics Directorate
Lidija Brković, Director General

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Marija Gojević and Gordana Bralić

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