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2024 community centre indicators 12/07/2025

A summary of the main indicators of community centre activity in 2024 was presented at the annual meeting of community centre management teams organised by the Directorate of Cultural Outreach at the Barcelona Institute of Culture to assess activity. In this edition, data was provided by 52 community centres and in general the figures are […]

Museum and exhibition centre visitors survey 2024 12/04/2025

These are the results of the 2024 survey of visitors to museums and exhibition centres in Barcelona. Promoted and coordinated by the Barcelona Institute of Culture since 2014, this survey analyses the profiles of individual visitors to the museums and exhibition centres that take part. The number of venues participating in the study has risen […]

March 8th: Gender and Culture 08/03/2024

Once again, on the occasion of the celebration of March 8th, International Women’s Day (IWD), the Barcelona Cultural Data Observatory has updated the collection Some Gender and Culture Data. On this occasion, we highlight the data from the Ciutat de Barcelona Awards, which are given around Santa Eulalia. The number of women awarded has increased […]

Survey on cultural rights in Barcelona 25/07/2023

The survey on cultural rights in Barcelona, promoted by the City Council, analyses the diverse ways in which city residents experience culture and how the inequalities experienced by some people impact their ability to exercise their cultural rights. Barcelona is one of the few cities in the world that has a survey which enables it […]

Culture in times of pandemic (II) 30/12/2021

During the last quarter of 2021, and carrying on from last autumn’s survey, the Barcelona Institute of Culture included a series of questions in the GESOP’s quarterly Omnibus, in order to monitor the importance of culture during the pandemic. As a new feature, people were questioned on their knowledge of the Grec Festival, its projection […]

The pandemic and digital audiences 08/10/2021

DIGITAL INDICATORS 2020 2020 was the year of Covid-19, a pandemic that has had devastating consequences for culture. But it was also the year of the generalised development of new strategies for reaching audiences, during a time when being on site was either prohibited or severely restricted. In this context, and in very diverse ways, […]