In July, the Municipal Data Office’s analysis department published the study ‘Disposable Household Income in Barcelona. 2018’, an approach to household incomes. Compared to previous studies, the main new feature is a change in the calculation method used: for the first time, the DHI was calculated based on a direct method and not by using […]

15In addition to analysing what impact the Covid-19 crisis has had on the number and origin of visitors, as well as on revenue from museum activities, it is interesting to note what types of groups visited these facilities in 2020, their distribution by month, days of the week, times and origins. With this aim, we […]

According to the weekly evolution of visitor numbers (only in catalan), Barcelona’s museums are on the road to recovery. In the week of 5 to 11 July, the figure rose above 27,000 visitors. This is undoubtedly still a far cry from the figure of over 64,000 visitors to those centres during the same period in 2019, […]

The website of the Cultural Data Observatory has opened a new Covid-19 data section* in order to monitor the recovery of cultural activity in the city * Only available in the Catalan version of this website Museums were one of the first sectors to be analysed, but data was also compiled on the activity of […]

The municipal government and opposition promote the Barcelona Cultural Pact, which makes it possible to agree on measures to meet new future challenges In November 2019, within the framework of the City Council’s Commission for Social Rights, Culture and Sports, all of the municipal groups agreed –on the proposition of JxCat and the support of […]

The Covid-19 crisis had an unavoidable direct impact on the number of people visiting museums in 2020, and on the configuration of the profile of those visitors. In spite of everything, the centres taking part in the museum survey, promoted by the Barcelona Institute of Culture since 2011, have maintained their efforts to survey their […]