Museum
Professional museums and their branches by type and type of ownership; collection size, number of employees, attendance, number of exhibitions and museum events, income and expenditures; attendance, income and expenditures of science centres; attendance and number of museum objects of expositions. | |
Classification of Estonian administrative units and settlements (EHAK); | |
The data cover museums, science centres and expositions. Museums – all economically active economic units or local kind-of-activity units whose principal or secondary activity according to the Estonian Classification of Economic Activities (EMTAK) belongs under code “91211 – Museum and collection activities” and who meet the definition of a museum according to the Museums Act. Science centres and expositions – all economically active economic units or local kind-of-activity units whose principal or secondary activity according to the Estonian Classification of Economic Activities (EMTAK) belongs under code “91211 – Museum and collection activities” and who do not meet the definition of a museum according to the Museums Act. These are primarily science centres and expositions (museum room, hobby museum, collection of antiques, private collection). | |
Archaeology and history museum – the aim of history museums is to present the historical evolution over a certain period, also memorial buildings of a larger than local significance, and regional museums that have a collection reflecting a larger cultural or historical region. This group includes museums of collections of historical objects and relics, memorial museums, museums of archives, museums of historical figures, events and periods, museums of archaeology, museums of antiquities, and museums that cover the development of society, community life and culture through history. Museums of archaeology are distinguished by the fact that they owe all or part of their collections to excavations. Art museum – a museum for the display and study of works of fine art and applied art. This group includes museums of sculpture, picture galleries, museums of photography and cinema, museums of architecture, museums of design, including art exhibition galleries permanently maintained by libraries and archives centres. Employee – full-time and part-time employees working under a contract of employment as on December 31 (headcount). In the case of school libraries, only librarians are counted as employees (whose number is presented at the end of the academic year). Ethnography and anthropology museum – a museum displaying materials on culture, social structures, beliefs, customs, traditional arts, etc. (The term was in use until 2019.) Exhibition – a temporary exhibition based on a museum’s collection or exhibition organised by other museums or institutions and exposed in the museum's venues. Permanent exhibitions were not taken into account until 2019. Since then, each year, the permanent exhibition has been counted as one exhibition. If an exhibition is exhibited in multiple locations, it is counted as separate exhibition. Exhibition outside permanent exposition – a museum exhibition that is held outside the museum’s own premises General museum – a museum with mixed collections that cannot be identified by a principal field. (The term was in use until 2019.) Labour cost – costs on wages and salaries of all employees, including temporary workers, with calculated social tax (basic wage, bonuses, holiday pay, guarantees, and allowances paid in the cases prescribed by the law and other labour associated costs) Museum – an institution that gathers, preserves, displays, and studies cultural and natural objects of cultural value. The functions of a museum are scientific describing, restoration, preservation, publication, lecturing, etc. In statistics, the main museum and its branches are considered as separate museums. Museum attendance – museum attendance covers both exhibition visitors and participants in events organised by the museum (lectures, museum classes) Natural history museum – a museum for the display of subjects related to either one or several of the disciplines such as biology, geology, botany, zoology, palaeontology, and ecology. Natural history and natural science museums do not include zoos and botanical gardens, which are not considered to be museums. Participants in excursions – people who go on guided tours in museums Place museum – a museum displaying materials illustrating the history and culture of a certain village, small town or municipality Regional museum – a museum that illustrates a more or less extensive region constituting a historical and cultural entity, and sometimes also an ethnic, economic, or social one, i.e. the collections refer to a specific territory rather than a specific theme or subject. (The term was used until 2019; further on, regional museums are classified under place museums or thematic museums.) Science and technology museum – museums in this category relate to several exact sciences or technologies such as astronomy, mathematics, physics, chemistry, medical science construction and building industries, manufactured articles, etc. Planetaria and science centres are also included in this category. Science centre – an institution for the popularisation of science and/or technology, featuring mainly hands-on exhibits or other interactive solutions for the visitors’ education and entertainment. A science centre does not have a museum collection, and its main purpose is not the gathering and preservation of cultural objects. Specialised museum – a museum concerned with the research and display of all aspects of a single theme or subject not covered in one of the other museum categories. (The term was used until 2019; further on, specialized museums are classified under thematic museums.) Thematic museum – a museum that specialises in a certain topic or speciality, including museums that display the history of an institution. Thematic museums also include museums focusing on a specific technology-related topic. | |
Museum; science centre; exhibition | |
All museum institutions (excluding museums of schools of general education), science centres and expositions. FRAME The sampling frame is the list of active museums, science centres and expositions based on the business register for statistical purposes and information received from the Ministry of Culture and other sources. | |
Estonia as a whole | |
1990–… | |
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Data are published in the statistical database at https://andmed.stat.ee/en/stat under the subject area “Social life / Culture / Museums” in the following tables: KU052: Museums by type of ownership; KU055: Science centres and expositions. Discontinued dataset KU031: Zoo animals (2000–2022) is available under the subject area Discontinued datasets / Social life. Archive / Culture. Archive. | |
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The data are complete. |
The national data are comparable by county. Since the statistical activity is nationally mandated, the data are not comparable with the data of other European Union countries. | |
The data are comparable over time. In 1999 the number of museums increased mainly on account of rural municipality museums. Until 2005 museums of public law (museums operating under universities, etc.) were also included in the owners’ classification. The exclusion of Estonian Literary Museum in 2011 resulted in a noticeable decrease of museum pieces of the main collection. | |
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The outputs of the statistical activity are coherent. |
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SURVEY DATA The population is 265 objects (museums, science centres, exhibitions). Census has been used. The number of museums covers both museums and their branches. ADMINISTRATIVE DATA Not used DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES Not used | |
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Data are collected and the submission of questionnaires is monitored through a web-based data submission self-service environment. The questionnaires have been designed for independent completion in the self-service environment and include instructions and controls. The questionnaires and information about data submission are available on Statistics Estonia's website in the section Questionnaires. Data are collected with the annual official statistical questionnaire “Museum”. | |
The data are compared with the data of previous periods. All columns are checked to make sure that they have been completed as required. | |
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