4 days of festival and almost 1.5 million participants.

We present here the Attendance Report for La Mercè 2017, which contains full information, by spaces and types of activities, on the public who attended Barcelona’s annual city festival.

This report also includes a summary of the results of the survey conducted on the public of the four most prominent venues of street arts MAC Festival. If you would like further information on this survey, the complete Results report is available for consultation.

The report presented here also contains information on the various counting systems used to estimate the attendance at the activities of La Mercè festival.

A survey conducted on the Night of the Museums provides a better knowledge about the people taking part in this initiative.

For the year 2017 edition of the Night of the Museums, the Institut de Cultura de Barcelona commissioned a face-to-face survey aimed to provide information on various aspects of the public participating in this event.

The results of the survey show that:

• Visitors gavethe Night of the Museums an average score of 3.
• 48% of the people took part in the Night of the Museums for the 1st time.
• 61% of the people were visiting the respective museum for the 1st time.
• 51% of the people who had taken part in previous editions visited the same museum on another occasion.

We present an analysis and all the results in this summary and in the complete report on the survey.

Related news:

• Night of the Museums 2017: 87 centres and 176,000 visitors

Grec 2017 closed with an occupancy of 75% and 113,541 spectators at its 102 programmed shows.

This was the first Grec festival to be directed by Cesc Casadesús and it was structured along two main lines:

• Grec Montjuïc was focused on national and international productions which were linked to the theme of the festival and which had a shorter programming time. A total of 46 shows were involved, with an average occupancy of 80%.
• Grec Ciutat featured companies and auditoriums that were programmed for longer periods of time, comprising 56 shows with an occupancy of 73%.

Additionally, the festival presented a set of parallel activities with various different stakeholders of the city, drawing an attendance of over 8,000 people.

More information is available at:

Grec 2017 report

A study of the visiting public analyses the profile of the individual visitors to 16 museums in the city on the basis of 32,000 surveys.

Once again this year, the Institut de Cultura de Barcelona has presented the results of the survey which it has been conducting on the visitors to the city’s museums for the last five years. The general profile of the individual visitors to the museums is given below:

PLACE OF ORIGIN:

• 70% of the visitors to the museums of Barcelona live abroad, mainly in European countries, while 17.7% are residents of the city of Barcelona.

LOYALTY:

• 78% of the visitors went to the respective museum for the first time (except in the case of CCCB, which has a more local public, with a rate of 57% repeat visitors).
• Among the residents of Barcelona, the percentage of people visiting the respective museum centres for the first time dropped to 47%.

INFORMATION SOURCES:

• Since foreign residents form a large majority among visitors, tourist information sources continue to be the main endorser of museums (43%).
• The other information sources mentioned are personal recommendations (15%), Internet (13%) and the media (8%).

Further information and the results of each of the museums participating in the survey are available at Survey 2016 results report.

Barcelona’s network of civic centres is consolidating a joint system of indicators to further the knowledge of the activity carried out at these facilities.

The civic centres of the city began to be coordinated by the Institut de Cultura de Barcelona (ICUB) in 2012 and, among other lines of work which were implemented, the design of a joint system of indicators for the set of centres was started up.

During a period of over two years, a working group formed by district experts, the directors of some of the centres, and culture experts from ICUB defined, pooled and validated this system of indicators with the stakeholders involved.

The work carried out in that period has provided a historical series of data (2014-2016) that allow a deeper analysis and interpretation of the civic centres’ activity.

Today we can determine how many courses or workshops are held each year, how many people attend them, what activities are carried out there, in which ones the participants can be counted and in which ones they cannot, what use the entities make of their available spaces, etc.

Thanks to the participation and interest of all parties involved in the project, we now have a wide-ranging set of data on the civic centres, reflecting a reality which has been marked up to now by very little visibility from the standpoint of cultural indicators.

We invite you to visit the Civic centres 2016 activity report or to download the data on the aforementioned three-year period in the respective section of this website.

Under the leadership of the festival’s new director, Cesc Casadesús, the Grec 2017 Festival of Barcelona is making its appearance.

Grec 2017 is structured along two main programming lines:

• Grec Montjuïc hosts a large part of the most international aspect of the festival on Montjuïc hill.
• Grec Ciutat highlights local creativity with companies and productions of authors based in Barcelona.

The festival also includes a programme of parallel activities featuring different stakeholders of the city and especially the network of Art Factories and the libraries of Barcelona.

If you would like to see the figures on the Grec Festival of Barcelona, visit:

• Grec 2017 programme in numbers 
• Grec 2016 report

Information on the balance of Grec 2017 is available in this note.