In May 2021, the Evaluation Report on the Caixa d’Eines [Toolbox] and EducArts Programmes was presented. It was initiated in the 2017-2018 academic year as part of the Barcelona Neighbourhoods Plan, with the support of the Barcelona Institute of Culture (ICUB), the Barcelona Education Consortium (CEB) and the Municipal Institute of Education (IMEB). These two […]

Barcelona City Council’s Municipal Data Office has launched a website for monitoring the scope and impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in the City of Barcelona. It shows the evolution of various indicators relating to people’s health, the economy, the job market, mobility, education and culture. This website is conceived as an analytical tool that offers […]

HOW COVID-19 AFFECTED CASTELLER GROUPS IN BARCELONA In January and February 2021, the Centre de Prospectiva i Anàlisi dels Castells (CEPAC) produced a survey –with the support of the Institute of Culture– to evaluate the impact of Covid-19 on Barcelona’s casteller (human tower) groups. 952 group members from the city’s eight groups (44.4% men and […]

The first survey of the cultural needs of Barcelona’s citizens Barcelona City Council presents its first survey of the cultural needs of Barcelona’s citizens, the diverse forms of their participation and involvement in the city’s cultural activities, and their perceptions of the network and activities available in the various districts. The survey examines the cultural […]

For years now we at the Barcelona Cultural Data Observatory have been collecting data on different cultural facilities of the city (museums, civic centres, the Art Factories network, etc.) and on various cultural activities (cultural festivals and city festivals). In the following document we explain how we carry out this task and what tools we use to process […]

For the first time ever, experts of the public administrations and of the public and private museums have gone over these data together. On the past 29th November we started up the #GrupDeTreball of #PúblicsDelsMuseus – the Working Group on the Museum Public. Experts of the public administrations (Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona Provincial Council and […]